San diego dress style......dumpy casual!!!!!! (mall, clothes, charge)

[futbol]

Years back I was offered a job at a company. They required employees (men) to wear a tie at the workplace.

I turned down the job. Tie wasn't the only reason, but it was a reason.

Levis 501 blue jeans for me, please. That and a Polo shirt or button-down. Business casual shoes. That's been my personal dress code as an engineer. Rarely wear T-shirts. Never sweats. Never flip flops (to work that is).

Come to think of it, my profile pic has what I wear to work, although that was taken while I was on vacation.

[bradleyyo]

In downtown, you see a lot of guys wearing suits and ties and women wearing dresses and other formal stuff. I think a lot of them are lawyers or work for the courts.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by BSerra23

Yeah...most really do dress really bad in San Diego. Especially considering that people have money here.

I'm from the east coast - NYC, VA/DC and even after a year its still kind of a shock to see how people leave their house. The dress code for work, even the most professional here is ridiculous to me. I would never pay an employee no matter how good they are if they don't have the pride to take care of themselves - no excuse.

Theres almost no occasion to dress up in San Diego. On a Saturday night, the "dress up" look for guys is a frat boy button down and a white shirt underneath...ugh.

Also, there is no reason for a grown man to wear sandals, ever - thats for little children and women. Grow up.

Honestly though, its the girls that take the cake. Sure there are some rich, fitness nuts who run all day, sit on the beach, and actually get dressed up. But for the rest of them -- they really some of the worst dressed girls I've ever seen outside of a small town.

In PB you will see maybe 5% of the girls wearing heels, looking sexy during the weekend - the rest of the girls make fun of them. I've seen the same thing in the gaslamp where you see more dressed up girls - but you still see "locals" ragging on them. "What the hell is she wearing? Where does she think she is?"

I don't care if its a beach town, I want the girls to look good. But unfortunately, the females have 2 speeds here - workout clothes and "Dumpy" beach outfits. Yayy.

I think that day street hooker look is a mostly E Coast thing.

[bradleyyo]

Go to Fashion valley Mall and it looks like Hollywood mixed with some exotic foreign country.

[Cardiff Kook]

LOL at BSerra telling men who wear Flip Flops to grow up. Move back to the east coast please

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by GMUAlum08

LOL at BSerra telling men who wear Flip Flops to grow up. Move back to the east coast please

phhhttt

We've seen those anti-Flip Floppers before.

[Clevelandgal]

Originally Posted by bradleyyo

In downtown, you see a lot of guys wearing suits and ties and women wearing dresses and other formal stuff. I think a lot of them are lawyers or work for the courts.

court wear is famously conservative no matter how casual the city-and I worked with courts in a few parts of the country and maybe other than banking, there is no occupation as conservative dressing. Pretty miserable to be in a suit in august, in Tampa, let me tell you.

[bradleyyo]

Originally Posted by Clevelandgal

court wear is famously conservative no matter how casual the city-and I worked with courts in a few parts of the country and maybe other than banking, there is no occupation as conservative dressing. Pretty miserable to be in a suit in august, in Tampa, let me tell you.

I bet with all that nasty humidity.

[paisley4]

The above photo makes me think I shouldn't be so worried about moving from MS to San Diego. But one of the things I hate about living in the deep south was the feer of morphing in to the above photo.
I did enjoy the Fashion Valley Mall when I was there.It felt like a metropilis compared to upscale shopping here, Walmart is the grocer and the tailor. Felt quite at home when getting items shipped from Gucci to Mississippi when the Gucci employee asked me if Mississippi was in New Orleans. Ho Hum. No worries, though, our local newspaper said the other day that the bank lines take so long here b/c 95% of locals couldn't fill out the deposit/withdrawal slips and most of the tellers had not gone to high school. Could this be the humidity as well?

[tickyul]

Originally Posted by paisley4

The above photo makes me think I shouldn't be so worried about moving from MS to San Diego. But one of the things I hate about living in the deep south was the feer of morphing in to the above photo.
I did enjoy the Fashion Valley Mall when I was there.It felt like a metropilis compared to upscale shopping here, Walmart is the grocer and the tailor. Felt quite at home when getting items shipped from Gucci to Mississippi when the Gucci employee asked me if Mississippi was in New Orleans. Ho Hum. No worries, though, our local newspaper said the other day that the bank lines take so long here b/c 95% of locals couldn't fill out the deposit/withdrawal slips and most of the tellers had not gone to high school. Could this be the humidity as well?

The Fashion Valley Mall is an abberation. Most sane folks know that mall peddles overpriced junk. People go up there to dress up and buy overpriced junk.......definitely not the norm for Frumpy-Diego.