Regional Differences

[mhsjax]

Again another gross generalization but I think lots of people on the west coast wear sneakers with just about everything. After all the PNW is home to the shorts wool socks sandals look so high fashion isn't usually a consideration. DW and I both work in the medical field and we wear sneakers to work and everywhere else. If it's a fashion crime to be comfortable than come take us away.

Working in the medical filed is different. I did and I wore scrubs and we wore tennis shoes, but going out, sorry but tennis shoes and jeans are a non no. I guess I am still young enough to worry about fashion before comfort, and I am 48. m To each their own and wear what you want, but I won't do it. I have many shoes that are just as comfortable as tennis shoes, but much cuter with jeans. Work, is always an exception, especially certain jobs.

OMG< I know that I didn't read socks and sandals. Pleas for the love of GOD, say it isn't so. That isn't even high fashion, that is just common sense.

 

[KristaTX]

Jeans with heels can be fine. Jeans with tennis shoes can be fine. I can't believe people freak out over simple things like that. What a bunch of judgmental fashionistas you all are. Every one of you . . .

I'm not judgy like that one little bit .

All I can say is:

High heels clomping down the hallways in an office = completely annoying like you're saying "hey everybody, I'm important and here I come!!"

Cowboy boots with shorts or short skirts = always stupid looking

Bra straps or thongs showing = oh puhleeeze

Saggy baggy pants = heinous

White pants = Really?? I can see your panties.

And I don't like flip flops with anything except a bathing suit. I don't want to see your feet, and I REALLY don't want to hear your flip flops flippin' and floppin'.

But I don't go judging what anyone wears. Nope. I'd never do that .

 

[Liberty Belle]

Oh I agree with that-- heals really look stupid with jeans!

Even like these?:

OMG those are some big shoes! Sorry!

 

[LilyWDW]

Working in the medical filed is different. I did and I wore scrubs and we wore tennis shoes, but going out, sorry but tennis shoes and jeans are a non no. I guess I am still young enough to worry about fashion before comfort, and I am 48. m To each their own and wear what you want, but I won't do it. I have many shoes that are just as comfortable as tennis shoes, but much cuter with jeans. Work, is always an exception, especially certain jobs.

OMG< I know that I didn't read socks and sandals. Pleas for the love of GOD, say it isn't so. That isn't even high fashion, that is just common sense.

I'm only 29... and sometimes comfort comes before fashion.

Both heels and tennis shoes with jeans are just fine... especially depending on the situation.

People should dress so that they feel good about themselves... not just to match the expectations of others.

 

[mhsjax]

Jeans with heels can be fine. Jeans with tennis shoes can be fine. I can't believe people freak out over simple things like that. What a bunch of judgmental fashionistas you all are. Every one of you . . .

I'm not judgy like that one little bit .

All I can say is:

High heels clomping down the hallways in an office = completely annoying like you're saying "hey everybody, I'm important and here I come!!"

Cowboy boots with shorts or short skirts = always stupid looking

Bra straps or thongs showing = oh puhleeeze

Saggy baggy pants = heinous

White pants = Really?? I can see your panties.

And I don't like flip flops with anything except a bathing suit. I don't want to see your feet, and I REALLY don't want to hear your flip flops flippin' and floppin'.

But I don't go judging what anyone wears. Nope. I'd never do that .

Don't come to Florida for long if you don't like flip flops, we wear them with everything. No, I am not talking about the plastic things you wear to the pool, but the cute sandal type things with no back and the material between the toe. I don't judge either, but I do know what is in style and what isn't. As long as I am not wearing the fashion no no, I am ok, others feel free.

 

[bluesaturn]

Even like these?:


OMG those are some big shoes! Sorry!

Well maybe the previous posters wear mom jeans? Because yes those would look stupid with mom jeans. Sneakers are pretty much all that work with those kind of jeans. But I'd wear the shoes you posted with jeans!

 

[mhsjax]

I'm only 29... and sometimes comfort comes before fashion.

Both heels and tennis shoes with jeans are just fine... especially depending on the situation.

People should dress so that they feel good about themselves... not just to match the expectations of others.

See that is just it. I am dressing to meet the expectation of me. YOu can have both fashion and comfort.

 

[mhsjax]

Well maybe the previous posters wear mom jeans? Because yes those would look stupid with mom jeans. Sneakers are pretty much all that work with those kind of jeans. But I'd wear the shoes you posted with jeans!

Oh no you didn't, you said "MOM JEANS" lol. Oh the horror.

 

[golfgal]

I don't know what kind of jeans you all wear I wear dark boot cut jeans with heels all the time and it doesn't look stupid.

And I think it does....

 

[bluesaturn]

And I think it does....

Oh darn, a middle aged housewife from Minnesota thinks my shoes look stupid.

 

[golfgal]

Oh darn, a middle aged housewife from Minnesota thinks my shoes look stupid.

And some "fashion expert" from who knows where thinks people shouldn't wear tennis shoes outside the gym...

 

[bluesaturn]

And some "fashion expert" from who knows where thinks people shouldn't wear tennis shoes outside the gym...

Actually I'm pretty sure she/he was from chicago considering the name was chicagodisneyfan. I don't know exactly, you should probably ask her/him, considering I wasn't the one who said that.

 

[punkin]

gee, and this thread was going so well without the usual cross country mud slinging about wedding customs. I can't believe it's getting derailed over shoes.

 

[U2_rocks!]

You can't generalize jeans - there are so many different styles, and different shoes suit different ones. It's just that around here jeans would keep us so hot - there's no way we'd also wear sneakers and socks! Open toed sandals (cute ones, with a small heel maybe) are just more comfortable. Or, in my case, I only wear denim in shorter styles like shorts or very cropped pants - it's just way too hot most of the time. But girls here wear jeans as a style, to go out in at night, not for warmth or comfort during the day, so they usually wear whatever's in fashion, along with the shoes that go with them e.g. when skinny jeans are in, they wear cute little sandals with heels, and when boot cut jeans are in they wear the clunky wedges or boot-style shoes/ankle boots.

 

[bluesaturn]

gee, and this thread was going so well without the usual cross country mud slinging about wedding customs. I can't believe it's getting derailed over shoes.

Dissing a woman's shoes is fightin' words

 

[disykat]

Oh darn, a middle aged housewife from Minnesota thinks my shoes look stupid.

You're willing to be THAT nasty over an opinion about shoes? Really?

 

[Liberty Belle]

Looks like it's gettin' close to closin' time (if I may be so bold to use Uncle Remus's vernacular).

 

[bluesaturn]

You're willing to be THAT nasty over an opinion about shoes? Really?

Have you read any of golfgal's other posts? Ever? In the history of the DIS?

But yes of course if it makes me the nasty one, so be it.

 

[Magic Mom]

From the gulf coast of Florida here... Deep South is pretty comparable.

Friday night in the fall you ARE at the football game.
Saturday you are watching YOUR college team play ball.
Sunday you go to church and then come home and watch more football. Good thing I love football. Football is a way of life in our house. It's how you socialize and I know people who have planned their wedding time around the fact the Alabama and Auburn or FLorida State and Florida were playing at a certain time and they knew their families would be upset.

Tea is always sweet with ice. It is never at any point hot or placed in a "cup" or unsweet. I can't think how bad unsweet tea must taste. And that stuff at Disney is NOT tea, I am not sure what it really is but it is not tea. *shudder*

If you tell me you want a coke, I will ask you what kind?

Around here, yes you will be asked what church you go to or who your people are? It's not meant to be rude, its meant to try to find some common ground with you. And, yes there is a difference between Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. LOL... hubbys parents were shocked I was a Baptist and here I was going to marry their sweet little Methodist boy. LOL

If you show up at my parents or my inlaws they will always feed you. Always!! It's not even a consideration of feeding you its making sure you like what they make. Growing up living at the coast we had plenty of fresh seafood at any given time we may have 15-20 pounds of shrimp, red snapper, grouper, crabs, oysters. Seafood is very plentiful. Until I was grown I had no idea that some places consider is expensive. Steak was always something that was plentiful as well. We always had a freezer and it usually had a "half a cow or hog" in it.

Weddings are nice, but are typically either on the beach or at your church. I was married at the same church where I was baptized. We had a buffet in the fellowship hall that consisted of shrimp salad, pork loin, pasta salad and other buffet types items. I was 22 and hubby was 33 when we got married.

Kelli

I grew up on the Gulf coast of Florida and we drank unsweet tea (a lot of our friends did) and everyone I knew would rather go to a soccer game than a football game, and Coke was the brand, "soda" was the generic term. But we did eat a lot of seafood, in fact many weekends were spent off Anclote Key catching scallops off the sailboat (that we would eat later accompanied by our unsweet tea )

 

[disykat]

Have you read any of golfgal's other posts? Ever? In the history of the DIS?

But yes of course if it makes me the nasty one, so be it.

Actually, I'm currently having a disagreement with her on another thread. I see no reason to make snarky implications about her age, location, etc. There are many middle aged people, many housewives, and many people from Minnesota on this board. Why would I want to insult them?