OK.

This is ridiculous, dekeguy. Step away from the keyboard. Seriously. Or my dad will rise up from his grave and everyone will regret it.

Now, everybody hold hands, sing kumbaya, and I'm toasting the marshmallows because it's obvious that some people might use the sticks as weapons. In other words:basta!

Back to greekdancer: girl, you better adjust your clothing and style. You in Big Trouble if you show up in those clothes in California. (i went and looked at the clothing styles you referenced. No, No...NO.).

Where the hell is ellebud? lucykkg? Come ON. This is annoying.

ETA: leggings with no pants? what?

Where to get clothes if I can't wear vineyard vines and lilly?

Lilly? LILLY? Oh dear. I need to get some of my Arizona actives to give me suggestions for you. And again, for the fifteen millionth time: ellebud? lucykkg? For the love of Mike!

This is a huge no on boots with a dress. Srsly, straight from the wardrobe of Blossom & Six.
http://www1.bloomingdales.com/catalo...tegoryID=16857


I don't think it is too cold this summer, it has been too hot for me as of late. Too hot being over 75 degrees. I'm seriously sitting on my couch with boxed sangria from Target in my pink tiki straw cup with frozen fruit in it because it is 85 degrees outside.

So umm yeah, NorCal, kind of a contentious term for me, though not as bad as Frisco or Cali. The only person who can ever get away with calling it Cali is L.L. Cool J if he's singing to me. The whole thing is had to define, where does it start, Monterey? Does the central valley get included? What about the Sierras? To be truthful the area around San Francisco aka the Bay Area is nothing like the coastal communities, the Central Valley, or the Sierras. The people in those areas can be much more rural, white, conservative, and oh, kind of like where I live now.

I see people with their Nor Cal pride stuff, giant ass decals, always on pick ups here, t-shirts, and so on, but I don't know anyone who wears it (it is sold in Zumiez, which is a mall chain, which we have where I live). There's definitely a streak of provincialism that comes out of me when people say they are from San Francisco and are really living in oh, San Bruno or Walnut Creek. There is nothing wrong with being from the Peninsula or the East Bay, but if your area code isn't 415 and you didn't live in The City, be loud and proud. Inside San Francisco proper, we break it down by neighborhoods and get provincial on the provincial.

Perhaps one way to designate the difference is if people in a community say 101 or "the 101" when mentioning their freeways. Hella and like would have worked but ten years ago No Doubt fouled that one up with their album Hella Good.

^^^Claiming the Sunset District, here! and a little North Beach mixed in as well <<<vbg>>>

Sorry, but I don't think there need to be degrees of impoliteness here. I'm just saying that when someone has come on with an outfit that she clearly likes and thinks she might look good in, and when her question is whether it would be appropriate for a specific event, is there really a need to suggest it looks like what a "bottom feeder" would wear? As far as that goes, does a gentleman even utter those kinds of judgments in public?

I think that if he does, he doesn't get to criticize the manners of others. ;)


I am male, but as I also think that I remember you're a lawyer, I'll offer a different sort of dual: We meet in court and then beers afterward.

Inner or Outer? South of the Park, north of Sloat, and west of UC/Kezar or it doesn't count. If we or siblings went to school together I'm too through. I'll take it even further to Inner Sunset, Golden Gate Heights. You can buy some gear to represent here http://www.cafepress.com/outsidelands/3090475

I want some Polly Ann's ice cream & some pink popcorn.

Lawyer fight... See who can draft a brief in Bluebook, ALWD and the Redbook the fastest? Do research without the use of We-Xis, keep a straight face while listening to a Whitebread barbri lecture?

Hey, I went to law school when Shepherds was still a shelf-full of books that you had to look through one by one, and there was no internet. Piece of cake.

OK>>>just saw the thread and my charge cards are screaming..

I don't know where you are going to school. October in SoCal can be very warm...or raining. But I am assuming that you're not here, so.....

The dress is sweet. The boots....not so much. Rather clunky and not the look you want.

I just found for my daughters some suede dove gray boots with high heels that would look wonderful with a sweater dress. But, depending again where you're going to school it could be too warm/cold or too sophisticated for an 18 year old. (As much as I would love to wear these it's too young a look for me.) Oh, and wear tights/stockings that match the dress to create a longer line.

If you are in a warm climate and have chosen the white dress (I can't see the color of the belt) but I would suggest a high nude peek a boo heel or a sandal. As I believe you said this isn't a semi or formal dress. And you can always take the shape of a LBD and look for it in a color.

I would have to say Outer Sunset: 22nd Ave & Irving is the closest . Just not quite close enough to be Inner. Otherwise I think I meet your criteria! Sadly, the home was sold some time ago. What I wouldn't give to still own that piece of real estate. Best memories are of what we called "Indian Summer" when the fog was gone. Wore summer clothes in Sept/October.

Kezar! Holy Cow! and what about Seal Stadium? Boy did you take me on a trip down memory lane...

Lowell High School?

Thanks for the URL, I see a little somethin' somethin' I might just desire :D

OK I promise to return this thread to its regularly scheduled programming, now that ellebud showed up.

AzTheta/VandalSquirrel: I remember the debates my address sparked when I moved to "The City" from Berkeley. I lived on Presidio Avenue near Pine Street. I was told I lived in:
1. Presidio Heights (most status-worthy)
2. Western Addition (least status-worthy)
3. Laurel Heights (seemed most accurate)
4. Pacific Heights (what most people understood)
5. Anza Vista

I had a friend who lived on Clayton (well) above Haight. If she was feeling particularly yuppie she said she lived in "Ashbury Heights," if she was being accurate she was being accurate she said she lived in "Twin Peaks," if she was being particularly funky she said she lived in "The Haight," if she was hanging around with gay male friends she said she lived in the "Swish Alps."

okay, sdtennisgal, since this thread is completely off the rails:

My favorite part of The City is The Presidio. Always will be. But I love my North Beach hangouts, especially the Washbag, and I'm sad that it's closed. Can only hope for its revival.

And I totally get the status factor about the neighborhood. Fortunately, being raised by an immigrant father, any sense of pretension got knocked outta me, fast.

Now you two have made me horribly homesick.

I'm drooling. Could you adopt me, please? I think gray suede boots are adorable. Just haven't found myself a pair.