I admit, I have been breaking the Thanksgiving-Valentine's velvet season I learned with a pair of velvet trimmed flats lately. (Best part of knowing the rules is choosing when to break them, right?)

I'm FROM Pennsylvania and i WENT to school in Jersey for 3 years and I now LIVE and GO to school in NC.

And I've spent quite a bit of time in the south...and have never seen this phenomenon of poorly dressed people.

I mean the only people I see dressed like that are country club member yuppies.....AT the country club.

I'll say it again...
It depends on where you grew up and live now. I thought this thread was about short shorts?

To be off topic with the rest of the group: I agree with 33girl about all of those rules, although living in the south where it can get pretty hot early in the year I think the open-toed shoes before Memorial Day can slide. Again, depends on where you live/grew up. Yes you are not supposed to wear pearls or fancy jewelry with "sporty" clothing, but what is your definition of sporty? I think Polo knits can be dressed up or dressed down according to the other pieces you put with it...just like anything else you wear. It's not like I wear fancy with a pair of ratty tennis shoes or tennis shoes in general; I'll wear some nice sandals and nice bottoms (NO JEANS) to dress up my outfit. Pearls & jeans are a no-no unless they're fake, big and last season. Accessories are great in moderation.

33girl,
Going by your comment of Polo being "sporty", is it not acceptable in your eyes to wear pearls & a nice button down polo to wear under a suit or by itself? Just curious.

I wouldn't wear a polo shirt with a suit, but I'm an adult and wouldn't wear a polo shirt anywhere but a casual business environment or on the weekends. The rules there are probably more relaxed for students.

Pearls aren't, in my book, fine jewelry and so I would wear a small strand to work anytime. On the weekends it would depend on what I was doing- running errands I skip the jewelry, but if I'm meeting people for lunch, sure. Other jewelry- diamonds and other stones and sparkly things, real or not, I keep to evening occasions, where I wouldn't wear a polo because, again, I'm a little too old.

(And, in my experience, the people who think the Southern heat is reason to excuse open toed shoes in the spring tend to be transplants from places like Maryland.)

When I think of Jersey I think of mullets, muscle shirts, gold chains, and Trans-Am's.

I think of the old SNL skit "Are you from Joisey? I'm from Joisey! What exit??"

ETA: Short shorts shouldn't be worn by anybody but waitresses in certain establishments or on the beach, such as the bathing suit tankini type bottoms. On men? That's just like wearing a Speedo.. ACK!

Do you even know what a yuppie is? Sorry but, old money Southern "country club" families are not yuppies. Patrick Bateman was a yuppie......and if you don't know who that is you should step into oncoming traffic.

Patrick Bateman is not a yuppy.

-Rudey
--Sorry

Actually Patrick Bateman was a yuppie. Either you don't know what a yuppie is either or you have never seen American Psycho or read Brett Easton Ellis' book.

".......Coming from a privileged background - the character is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard (class of '84) and works as a Wall Street banker at the fictional firm of Pierce & Pierce - Bateman has become the image of the 1980's yuppie."




Sorry, try again.

Except that Patrick Bateman was clearly upper-class and not upper-middle class. Aside from his expensive education, his fictional salary would place him higher than upper-middle class. If he were an analyst he might be considered a yuppy, but even then barely given his family prominence and wealth.

-Rudey

Bateman was a huge yuppie. Don't know why you are arguing this.

Since you obviously don't know what you are talking about, here is what a yuppie is

"Yuppies tend to value material goods (especially trendy new things) and are also supposed to have "bad taste" in that they buy expensive things merely for the sake of buying expensive things. In particular this can apply to their stocks, luxury automobiles,houses, and gadgets (cell phones).
Heavily influenced by a competitive corporate environment, "yuppies" often value those behaviors that they have found useful in gaining upward mobility and hence income and status." ---HENCE PATRICK BATEMAN

Let me guess, Paris Hilton is also a yuppy. And so are Donald Trump's kids.

-Rudey
--Of course I worked in investment banking, have a lot of friends like that, and am from NY but I'm sure a farm boy like you knows better.

Paris Hilton is a socialite. Don't know much about Trump's kids. I'm not going to argue with you about it anymore. You are wrong no matter what you say. Stop being a douchebag.

I can answer for 33 here :) The answer is definitely no on that one. But 33 and I both come from above the M/D line so things could be different down where you are.

Now, there WAS a period (looks like Spring of '88 if my photo album is correct) when girls wore polo shirts (w/popped collar! lol) and pearls together. I admit to being guilty of this. I have a picture of me and four sisters wearing that lovely ensemble complete with frumpy khaki shorts (with pleats! What were we thinking???) and, don't laugh, we had pink and green plaid scrunchies holding our ponytails.

I don't think I've ever heard of wearing a polo shirt with a suit, though.

As usual KR and I agree. An oxford and pearls under a suit, yes. A polo shirt, no. (That's actually a frequent fashion faux pas for some yinzer males - sans the pearls)

And just so we don't get confused:

Oxford shirt

Polo shirt

i.e. just because it's "polo by ralph lauren" it isn't a polo shirt.