We just returned from a 5 day vacation within a vacation to Berlin. Great timing! The average daily high temperature was in the mid nineties. Locals and tourists alike were dressed in the coolest clothes they could pull out of the closet. We saw lots of sun dresses, shorts of all lengths and sleeveless tops on girls and women of all ages. We saw lots of shorts on men. Sandals on the older folks and flip flops on younger people were the norm. It was so hard to tell the locals from tourists because everyone on the street was so casually dressed for the hot weather. The things that seemed to separate the 2 groups were that the tourists were gawking around a lot and some carried cameras. So to those of you who are still worried about what to wear in a city, during a heatwave, while sightseeing; take your cues from the locals and dress to stay cool and comfortable.
Posted by
Myrtle Beach, USA
12313 posts
If you'd visited a park, you would have seen locals wearing less than that. :-)
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19261 posts
I have a whole collection of pictures of people in short pants at Herrenchiemsee on a very hot day in 2009. I also have a few pictures of people in short pants in Baad, Austria (Kleinwalsertal).
Posted by
Los Angeles
4799 posts
Wearing black socks with those sandals, no doubt. Or do they only save them for visiting Los Angeles?
Posted by
OP
California USA
4088 posts
It was soooo warm that there weren't quite so many sock/sandal combinations being worn, except by men of a certain age...
Posted by
2539 posts
Have "they" graduated from tan socks to black socks?
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
33754 posts
I have just returned from Brighton and London - plenty of shorts there on men and women, and microskirts on women and a few men and transgenders.
I've noticed that the overall casual flat shoes for women are frequently white low top sneakers this year, with little invisible sockies. I saw that in Europe and now very much so in the UK.
It won't be long now, though, that the heavy black and grey tights make their reappearance.
Posted by
Olympia, WA, USA
6713 posts
Out here in the Northwest we wear shorts and sandals (no socks) in winter, with fleece vests and parkas and wool caps. If you keep the core warm enough, the extremities will follow -- at least that seems to be the theory! ;-)