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I have a lot of rules, but I live in Europe and people dress differently here.

I don't wear yoga pants and sneakers out of the house, I always carry a proper purse and I have my hair styled. I don't do anything super elaborate, but wearing shorts and flip flops outside of the garden just isn't done. I don't know why, to be honest.

I also "dress" when I go on an airplane, this is a vestige of my mother's fashion sense. I wouldn't get on a plane wearing a sweatsuit and uggs. Again, I don't do a dress with hose and heels, but I do wear nicer jeans, proper shoes and a nice top.

I use to hate black with brown, but the other day I wore black tights with a brown tank and a tan with gold striped shirt... It looked better than I thought it would! not being matchy matchy is in now. I generally don't wear white due to my very pale skin. and I definitely wear sweats out of the house... hmm sounds like I don't follow any rules!

I color block all the time, but I still don't like black with brown. Just personal preference, I guess. I only wear open toed shoes when the weather is warm (I'm in CA. I don't consider 70 warm), and I only wear boots when the weather is cold. If I'm wearing a belt, my shoes match the belt in some way. I don't wear sweats/yoga pants outside the house, and any "sweats" I own do not have elastic on the ankles. I don't know if those are really rules or just personal preferences of when I wear things/what I wear.

When I was in school, I always wore heels to an exam. That was a rule/tradition for me.

@bree72: I know! I guess the warm weather makes us casual because it's too hot to care about style. I just care about staying cool!

@joyjoy: I love sweatpants with elastic on the ankles. That's my favorite pair. I don't know why.

I was so happy to get into my flip flops this week - its still a little cold, but I'm completely sick of my boots now and the belly is making it hard to put them on, particularly if I try to do it after eating!
No real fashion rules here, Irish people seem to be overwhelmingly casual thatway - just basics like not wearing white to a wedding.

I don't wear sweatpants, sneakers, or flip-flops out of the house. The only exception to this rule is if I'm going straight from my place to my parent's and I know they're not expecting guests.

I don't wear jeans to work unless it's Friday or I'm on site (as in, visiting a power plant, construction or something). There is no hard dress code at work and some of my co-workers do wear jeans on any given day, but I'm not comfortable being in anything less than business casual attire.

@looch: I am with you on just about every point! Europeans can make you feel slobby if you don't make some effort!

We have mild weather here. Similar to florida. I don't usually wear open toe shoes in the day in winter but will at night if I am going out.

My only rule -leggings. No one, bar DH, wants to see my arse walking down the street in front of them. Or even worse, my crotch walking towards them. Eek. So shirt covers arse when wearing leggings. The end.

I don't consider myself fashionable at all. I think I wear cute clothes or maybe they are just casual and not screaming for attention. Although, at work, I can wear a shirt, jeans and sneakers everyday. I used to dress up (skirt) but the weather is so different now that I live in Seattle. It's just easier to wear jeans. Plus, I work in lab where I have to wear closed toed shoes and long pants. Boring!! I have a drawer full of short skirts and capri pants that I used to sport during the summer. I get sad everytime I see them because I loved wearing them. Now I wear my 'summer clothes' about one month out of the year.

Anyway, I do wear white capris after labor day. I don't like wearing tight fitting pants like leggings or yoga pants. ( I don't own any leggings.) Only exception is when I go to the gym. I did wear a black peep toed shoes to my christmas party. (Is that considered open toed?) In my defense, I wear high heels about 2-3 a year!

I love flip flops and used to wear them as long as I could when I live on the east coast. Now, my feet get too cold to wear them for more than a month.

I just thought of some more, but these are more based on my body type:

No tapered pants or leggings, they make my butt and hips look way wide. No capris, they make my already short legs look even shorter. Bermuda length shorts only if I do ever wear them, which is rare.

White jeans are seasonless, while white chino pants are for the summer only.

No halter tops, they make my shoulders look really wide

If I am wearing bare legs, I wear nude or light colored shoes, I hate the block of color at the feet as it cuts off the length of the legs

I have to be very careful with lip colors, my lips have a strong natural color and lipsticks change a lot when I wear them, so I usually just have on clear gloss.

For bags, I usually only wear either leather in winter and canvas in the summer. I don't match to the shoes, but since I usually wear brown or nude, they coordinate.

@mediagirl: there's always those few weeks when it is this crazy mish mash of clothing types. some people just can't part with their winter clothes just yet. i am the opposite (obviously).