How to dress like a local......

Ha! Love the New York advice.

For Seattle, it'd have to be a Gore-Tex jacket, sandals, and thick woolly socks, accessorized with a Starbucks cup.

Oh, it is right on target for New York! I have, hmm, let me see, how many pairs of black pants? And my jacket, oh it has to be black! But I would add, just like the Parisians, New Yorkers love their scarves.

I want summer time for Chicago when it gets so lovely and humid!

Madison, WI? Sandals--don't have to be Birkies--, jeans, any Bucky Wear, and skip the Starbucks cup and go local. Mine was Ancora.

Pam

Fun. Thanks. San Francisco - how to spot the tourists in the summer: they're the ones wearing shorts and hoodies that say I (heart) San Francisco. Locals know better than to wear summer clothes in summer.

Ha that is funny! And true... I would not be caught dead here in San Francisco in the summer without a fleece! I don;t care hot it was when I left home in the morning!

Kim

To spot the tourists in LA we look for milky white skin, splotches of sunburn, and beachwear in the city. Oh black socks and sandals are a great look too.

For the Colorado Mountains (except for the Vail, Aspen, and Telluride areas, but it's still true to some extent) - make sure none of your outerwear matches - colors, brands, or styles. Since locals get everything on sale at the end of the season, you get what's left over at the time.

Apparently anywhere in Colorado, if you're male and under 21 years old: wear shorts every day of the year.

Ya, but at least you can wear shorts.

Yo, Teresa! When did they start wearing socks up there?

In Chicago, women usually pair the Ugg boots and North face jacket with leggings- the TMI type leggings.

Washington DC-- security badge on a lanyard. Lunchtime, it's little black dress socks paired with baggy sports shorts, tennis shoes and t-shirt panting as you play soccer on the Mall Lawn-- and security badge tucked away.

Have yet to see monogramed stuff in Charlotte- not sure WHERE they got that idea. Business suits to the max- men and women. At lunch, change dress shoes for walking shoes to go to the food trucks/carts.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
i prefer to use this website to get the correct mode of attire for looking like a local.

Use that site for NYC only if you change all the colors to black....

If I ever go to Portland, I hope I won't be thought of as a hipster just because I have a beard; after all I have had one for over a decade so I think that I can confidently state that I had one before beards were cool.

Uh-oh. What did I just write.

What Cyn said, first paragraph only.

Oi, Dick! In some parts of the city, socks and sandals are de rigueur in the autumn. :)

In Ohio, shorts between February and December.

Did anyone go on to click on the part about what foreign tourists think of us? Even better -- http://www.orbitz.com/blog/2014/12/foreign-tourists-think-us/.

We have always been at the bottom of the worst dressed tourists list. I hope we haven't lost our standing. If we keep wearing socks with sandals, there is certainly no danger we will rise up from worst dressed.

Lo - I loved those graphics! Under dining, they forgot to mention customizing orders - dressing on the side, no bacon, extra bacon, can I substitute fries for chips?

Well, at least foreign tourists in the U.S. give us high marks for customer service.
And well they should, we may deserve worst dressed but we also deserve best customer service.
Paris, take note: the customer is not always wrong.

Reminds me of a brief visit to NYC a few years back- was wearing a bright blue polo shirt on the subway - I looked around the car and noticed I was the only person not wearing gray or black. When I got above ground I put on my gray sweater and immediately felt more at ease.

Who do you think are the best dressers in Europe, taken as a nationality, on average:
the Italians?

'Who do you think are the best dressers in Europe, taken as a nationality, on average:
the Italians? "

I'm going for the dark horse candidate here- the Belgians. Or more specifically, the Flemish. They don't tend to dress very flashy, but they almost never leave the house without making a pretty fair effort at their wardrobe. I commonly see people in the US wearing more casual clothes to Sunday church than you would see a Belgian wear to buy groceries.

OK, so far the Flemish are in first place in the RS Travel Forum List of Best Dressed.

Anymore candidates, or are the Flemish going to win for Best Dressed?

Lo, thanks for the link. It reminded me that my friends (and I) complain about the lousy food in the U.S. - insipid, doughy bread, tasteless fruits and vegetables - but oh, the Chicago pizza. And the sales tax drives most of them crazy - not knowing how much something will really cost until you are ready to pay for it. Once out of the major cities, they do NOT complain about car rental prices, gas prices, hotel prices, or anything else, for that matter.

The Flemish love to show, I agree with Tom!

Ha! Monogram something for CLT/ATL/CHS....That's awesome and spot on! Especially for the 20-something crowd.

Haha and get it wrong and you stand out like a patronizing sore thumb.

I vote for the Spaniards for best dressed.

I vote for Italians as best dressed. The gorgeously dressed women in heels on a moped always got my attention...

Thanks for the link, Lo! That made me smile.