I’m going to a wedding in Florida next weekend. For excursions not wedding-related, am I committing a faux pas by wearing white jeans around town before Easter?
I’m not usually a slave to fashion rules, but this is the one “rule” that always gives me pause.
Maybe instead of white jeans, I can wear a white jean jacket with blue jeans?
I’m not in Florida, but I live in the deep south, and you’d be fine with white jeans where I live.
I am in Florida and you will be fine wearing white. I find here that people dress for the weather, not the calendar. It’s going to be 84 here today and I’m wearing my spring clothes.
Wear what you want. White is fine. Shorts are fine. Flip flops are fine…
Dress for the weather.
I am in Miami. People wear white year round here. We don’t have that funny no white after Labor Day or Before Memorial Day thing. Wear whatever you want!
Same!
You will be fine. Now white shoes are another story 
(seriously it doesn’t matter)
Even back when I was growing up, the no white clothes after Labor Day and before Memorial Day rule was rarely observed in FL, although a few of my mother’s generation would only wear “winter white.” The white shoe rule was actually observed, but with Easter marking the start date for acceptable wearing. I doubt that many under 60 (and I’m well over now) have heard of this.
Here in FL, upscale area, lots of white all year. I don’t think you could go wrong with white clothes,shoes, purses anytime.
I see no difference in this thread than others about kitchen backsplashes, dishwashers, fashion and the myriad of others like them. Yes, there are important things going on in the world, but that doesn’t mean everyday life stops. For me, life is a balance now. I worry about the many things going on in the world, but I don’t apologize about also thinking about nail polish colors, what thread count should I get for my new sheet set, or should I get strip steak vs a filet. Oh, and white in Florida is acceptable year round.
Well, let’s agree to disagree—the acceptability of white before Easter sounds like an anachronism back to the swell repressive 1950’s. Even kitchen appliances have more relevance than fashion faux pas. “Can I wear white before Easter” conjures up the old-school exclusive country club atmosphere of the past. Let’s not go back to that time.
I guarantee you that the no white shoes rule in my house growing up in Florida had nothing to do with a country club atmosphere. It had everything to do with the fact that my public school teaching parents couldn’t afford more than one pair of white dress shoes per kid per year. They had to last through the summer when there were no paychecks. (And that was in the 1970s, when we also didn’t have a clothes dryer or air conditioning.)
No matter what world events are happening I still have to get dressed every day, and it doesn’t mean I don’t care about world events. Perfectly acceptable to want to dress properly for the location or event and the OP has every right to ask. Skip this thread if it bothers you.
And yes, I wear white in Florida at any time.
Where I live, you don’t see a lot of white before Labor Day, my daughter is at school in SC, and now that I think of it, I see a ton of white in pictures.
@MADad, take a seat.
Every day of the existence of each of us participating on this thread, something horrible has been happening-not only in our country, but in the world at large. It’s the human condition. Every single minute there is and always has been war, famine, poverty, murder, abuse, and a million other injustices. We suffer outrage at many of these events, we feel empathy for the troubles of others; we may be activists against the injustices in our communities, we may volunteer time or money to help, we may take many other actions to try to make a small difference in health of our world and smaller communities. Dealing with the constant onslaught of terrible news can be overwhelming and soul crushing.
And yet in spite of this, we ALSO concern ourselves with the daily minutiae of life. We worry about personal problems that pale in comparison to the troubles of others, yet nevertheless weigh on our minds. Some of the things we concern ourselves with are absolutely trivial when placed in context with the millions of injustices and hardships occurring every single day. We seek out pleasurable experiences even as we are aware that many people can barely get through the day, much less have the good fortune to go on vacation or out to dinner or to play sports or take part in any number of pursuits. No doubt even YOU engage in life’s trivial cares or pleasures- even as people in your community and elsewhere suffer.
As a functioning adult, it’s possible to be VERY concerned about what’s going on in the world (most of which we can’t even discuss on CC because it’s so tied up with the political) while at the same time asking questions about or discussing the very trivial, like what to wear when going on vacation, the latest Wordle solution, or if the latest Philippa Gregory novel has been made into a TV show. Asking for advice about something so obviously inconsequential does not mean that the greater issues in life are deemed unimportant or that one’s “priorities” are messed up. It’s perfectly possible for an adult to care about more than one thing at a time and also to understand perspective and where these concerns lie on the spectrum of importance.
Your judgmental and self righteous response to a basically yes or no question was neither requested nor appropriate. Next time you open up a thread about a subject that does not interest you, use that little back button to move on to something more deserving of your time and spare those participating your sanctimony.
To those who kindly answered the question without ad hominem attacks, I thank you. Since the question has been addressed, the mods can close this thread if they wish.
Looking forward to our trip and seeing someone we love experience happiness-even in the midst of ongoing world chaos.
Ditto. I don’t know if I’ve ever set foot in a country club more than once or twice in my life. As one of six kids, I had to pay for my own clothes once I got in high school and could work. I basically had 3 pairs of shoes-brown, black, and white. You had to get the best bang for your buck, and I do remember being harshly corrected for wearing white shoes once in late September. That was ages ago, so I wasn’t worried about being harshly criticized about it on this trip, but clearly it occurred to me to wonder about it as I was deciding what to wear/buy for this long weekend.
Your post reminded me of a 30 Rock episode where Tina Fey’s and Matt Damon’s characters were discussing how society was going to Hell in a handbag. “People wear flip flops to church!”
Being Jewish, I always heard it as no wearing white before Memorial Day. Of course, that excluded “winter white,” like white wool sweaters and dresses. It was not an issue in our household. We never said, no white before Passover!
Now here in San Diego, proper winter wear is shorts, a hoodie, and flip flops. Or wetsuits or biking shorts and shirts.
All I was trying to say that isn’t the whole “when can we wear white” thing an anachronism to past times? Look at a photo of people at a baseball game in the 1930’s—everyone has a suit and a straw hat on! Not that way anymore. Look at teachers in the 1950’s—men in jackets, women in dresses/skirts. Not that way anymore. Look at people leaving church in shorts, jeans, etc–not like it was years ago.
I would not expect a brouhaha is someone wore white outside of the olden-times restrictions.
Women where I live don’t wear white pants, skirts or dress shoes during cold months here in the northeast, I really didn’t realize it was different in different regions. It was a fair question. I’m assuming, due to your username, that you are male.