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Old 10-02-2015, 09:46 PM
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The Power of Clothing

As we enter fall and change our clothes I can't help but to think back on what I learned when I wore less.

Here is a serious question. If America has a cultural dress, what does it look like? My mind is hooked on the cowboy but that is me being mentally greedy. New Mexico living also introduced me to native Indian dress and that is also ingrained in me.

The sweatpants thing that started in the 1970s, while being popular, cannot be presented to the world as our dress. Fess up.

My mom is a seamstress and we had a serious discussion about this over the summer. Our discussion happened while trying to interpret a foreign word for "cultural dress". The foreign word lost its meaning when software interpreted it as "costume".
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Old 10-02-2015, 09:55 PM
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Old 10-02-2015, 09:56 PM
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In California we just about dress the same all year round, well at least living near the coast.

Levi's and t-shirts, throw a jacket on for winter, or summer living in SF.

That's my America Dress.
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I'm from Portland. Cultural dress here is whatever your imagination can dream up, and some you likely couldn't even imagine.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:06 PM
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Carhartt shorts, sandals and Hawaiian made shirts here.

SoCal casual.

I'd try some lederhosen for a little bier and schnitzel at our local Old World at this time of year, though. Lot's of Germans in my family tree.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:24 PM
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Bobadoobie, I am getting a feeling from your post that I identify with. IMO you are skirting with trademarks instead of dress.

Messages on clothes are different than clothes themselves.

I would agree that a leather holster or quiver are near the center of American clothing. But guns? No. We have a richer heritage in archery IMO.
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This is pretty typical for Portland. We are probably one of the biggest vintage clothing markets around, although it obviously doesn't have to coordinate. Kilts are also quite common.






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Traditional European clothing.
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My normal attire is athletic shorts, a baggy pocket-t and sandals or sneakers with white socks. If it goes below 60 outside, I put on jeans and grab a fleece sweatshirt. I DO NOT dress up to go out, ever, unless somebody died. I have never liked suits, collared button down shirts or any of that uncomfortable, expensive crap that you have to constantly worry about getting dirty or damaging. If I can't wash it at home and it costs more that $30, it sucks ass and I don't want it.

Yes, I dress for comfort, I'm into "Slob Couture".
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I suppose that the clothes the both "American Pickers" guys wear in their tv show are in a way typical of average American clothing.
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