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Survey: How to people dress where you live? Printed From: HairBoutique.com Category: Fashion Forum Name: A Passion For Fashion Forum Description: Shoptalk - Hot styles, designers, where to buy, deals & steals. URL: https://talk.hairboutique.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=21054 Printed Date: July 18 2025 at 8:37am Topic: Survey: How to people dress where you live? Posted By: Jenna Subject: Survey: How to people dress where you live? Date Posted: January 21 2004 at 2:13pm I've been interested lately in style attitudes and trends by geographical areas. This would be a fun survey, since we have members from all over the world. Where do you live? (city, state, provence, or country) What are the popular styles and trends in your region? Do you conform to the styles, or do you dress differently? Replies: Posted By: Jenna Date Posted: January 21 2004 at 2:35pm Where do you live? I live in a very populated suburb near Sacramento, California What are the popular styles and trends in your region? People here are very image and brand conscious, and tend to dress to impress. Mall Brand names such as Guess, Abercrombie, GAP, etc, are very popular, especially when written on the actual clothing to show where they are from. IMO people are not very adventurous or daring with their clothing, with the exception of some sub-cultures. To be casual, a lot of people wear oversized, comfy sweatshirts. Nice sweaters and turtlenecks are also popular in the winter. Most women wear low rise jeans or other colored pants as a staple. Women rarely wear skirts, unless they're denim, which I've noticed is a contrast to the European culture. Do you conform to the styles, or do you dress differently? I like to shop at trendy stores, but I tend to buy their more unusual and interesting clothes. I also love daring jewelery, such as feather earrings or exotic gold-looking necklaces. I usually wear jeans, but this spring I'm going to start wearing more skirts for a change. This summer I'm moving to Amsterdam, Holland, so I'm looking forward to trying even more daring fashions, since it is more accepted to be an individualist there. ------------- Posted By: BaldJasmine Date Posted: January 21 2004 at 5:38pm I live in Chicago. People here like to think of themselves as sophisticated although maybe not quite as trendy as L.A. or New York. It really depends on your economic bracket. Here in this big urban area, people do buy the fancy brands when they can afford it, and people do pay attention to style in Chicago. ------------- . Posted By: Kuroneko Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 3:53am Jenna wrote: I've been interested lately in style attitudes and trends by geographical areas. This would be a fun survey, since we have members from all over the world. Where do you live? (city, state, provence, or country) Southeastern US. . . that's about as specific as I get OL, for security paranoia reasons *laughs* What are the popular styles and trends in your region? Depends on class. Low-income people generally wear just t-shirts and worn jeans, or sometimes (I hate to say it) clothes that look secondhand and often don't match. Middle-class people look more like the people in the Old Navy ads, with lots of logos and fairly trendy, but safe, clothes. Upper-class people I have less exposure to, but they do strike me as spending money on quality clothes, usually taking more time to match well and use tasteful accessories, and they're generally followed by the smell of some nice perfume or cologne. Whenever I'm looking in more expensive stores I always feel like I smell bad, because all their customers always smell so nice and I only rarely wear any perfume. Do you conform to the styles, or do you dress differently? I'm afraid I'm very low-income, so I have absolutely no fancy clothes. Fortunately, I'm not the type who cares much about clothes, so I'm perfectly fine with my t-shirts and worn jeans. A button-up shirt and slacks rather than jeans is about as dressed up as I get. I don't keep up with trends and generally don't throw out anything until it's beyond repair. I do like accessories, though I haven't got money to spend on expensive ones. I try to look the best I can with what I have, and I feel good if someone notices a nice necklace or earrings or whatever I have on, even if it only cost a few dollars or so. ------------- More awesome than a manatee! Posted By: Lyris Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 1:38pm I live in Michigan, about 90 minutes from Chicago. We're actually across Lake Michigan from the Windy City. Here, brands are useless. Polo is about the extent of high couture at the Fortune 500-size company in which I work. In Chicago, it's another story. Burberry is huge there, as is anything outlandishly priced. I hate trends in general but I love nicely tailored clothing. I shop in the back half of Banana Republic, J Crew (their suits are fantastic if you're tall) and the Ann Taylor outlet store (utopia!.) Some things (empire waists and capris) will NEVER look good on me, so I refuse to wear them despite their popularity. ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft Posted By: Debbie Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 3:31pm I live in the Southern 1/2 of ILLINOIS! There are all types of dress arund here. From the hippie era (tie dyes to the ripped blue jeans?) to the uppity class. My son whom is 20 taught me to dress like I want to and not to care what others think. So we being southern illinoiers wear just about anything from name brands to non matching things. Anything goes here and I think it is quite fun! ------------- There is more to life than hair...Come on---Go get a life!!!!!!! Posted By: CrazyGirl Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 1:35pm I live in Los Angeles. Depends on the enthnicity here I think. I usually am in my jeans, sneakers, shirts and a sweater (mostly roxy stuff). Anyway, try going to different malls and you will see different styles, brands and people. Asians (and I am not saying ALL) tend to dress up more even just going to the mall than Caucasians. I was just in Hawaii and there, I was mostly in sleeveless and skirts or shorts and flip flops, no matter where we went just like everyone else (and that was nice). Most of my jeans, shorts and skirts were from Abercrombie only because I find really small sizes that fits me well. Express has the right length, surf store has the perfect size shirts. Tough being short. LOL. ------------- http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1016946 - http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1016946