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<p>I think most of our kids want us to be invisible in events like campus tours…so our clothes shouldn’t be too bad or too good. We certainly don’t have to dress to be invisible - just sayin’ what many kids would prefer.</p>
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<p>Gee, thanks monydad, I certainly knew how to come across as polished casual for all of our tours over the past few months 
I wore nice jewelry and carried a great leather handbag, too, oh noez!</p>
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<p>I came to regret the great handbag…handbags tend to beget, “Mom, can you put this in your purse…” water bottle, t-shirt, etc.</p>
<p>Us too, by the end of these things my wife seems to always be loaded down like a camel. No idea what she keeps in there…</p>
<p>Of the 11 schools D visited, I have to hand it to K-State: the only one that gave the plastic bag of paper/t-shirt at the end of the tour instead of the beginning.</p>
<p>Now THAT place must have been hot…
Lived not that far away for a while, basically could not go outside in the summer after 10am (being generous) without sweltering.</p>
<p>Geneseo had nice big water bottles, very much appreciated the day we visited.</p>
<p>Cornell had a water fountain in the room adjacent to the tour guide HQ, that’s it. Get with the program guys…</p>
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<p>K-State? Actually, about an hour before the tour, a thunder storm rolled in, so it was overcast during our tour. Yay! We thought we’d die at KU, however.</p>
<p>Here’s what someone posted on another forum, long ago:
"Since leaving, I’ve lived places that were hotter than Kansas, and places
that were colder, but nowhere that’s both as hot AND as cold. It’s
brutal…every year has a few days of 110F+, and a few days of -10F. </p>
<p>Spring and autumn are really nice though…both days. "</p>
<p>I’m told that some recent winters have been milder though.</p>
<p>When we toured Seattle Univ during the spring, there was a dad there wearing a kilt…anything short of that would probably be ok</p>
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<p>I’ll have to tell D that the next time she complains about H’s wardrobe.</p>
<p>One of my favorite Dave Barry columns was when he wrote about picking his son up from HS in the Oscar Myer Weinermobile.</p>
<p>You can’t win with kids.</p>
<p>My brother in law is an executive with a rental car company, so he always has a new company car. Last spring he had a Chrysler Sebring convertible. It was a beautiful day, and he was going by the high school to pick up his 9th grade daughter after a sports practice. He put the top down on the car, and drove in wearing his sunglasses (shirt sleeves rolled up, with a tie) thinking she’d be psyched to be driving off in a convertible and he was gonna be the “cool” dad. My niece climbed into the car and said, “Geez, Dad, you look like a mid-life crisis.”</p>
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<p>I seem to remember a lot of places that had water bottles. It was a surprisingly warm day in Colorado when we toured Colorado College and we appreciated it, esp as we had all dressed like Nanook of the North in anticipation that we’d be dodging snowdrifts.</p>
<p>Boy, many of you are way too concerned about ‘the look’. I think people care much less about the way you look than you might think. I also don’t know why people equate ‘shorts, t-shirt, sandals’ with some dirty and slobby look since they can be clean and neat.</p>
<p>Maybe there’s a disconnect in this convention between those touring colleges on the east coast and midwest (which I haven’t done) and those in the west - I don’t know. There are many fathers touring the campuses out here who are dressed similarly to me (shorts, t-shirt, sandals/sneakers) and they’re not dirty and they’re not slobs and neither am I. And if you don’t want to see my legs, even though they’re actually quite nice ;), then you’d better also avoid the mall, the beach, restaurants, outdoors almost anywhere. I might not want to see something about you either but I’ll generally tolerate it.</p>
<p>Since it’s obvious different people have different ideas of what they consider ‘appropriate’ clothing for particular situations then I think the best we can all do is try to exercise more tolerance and not be so judgmental as some of the posters here appear to be. I won’t think less of you for wearing a suit to wander a campus for a few hours in 95 degree weather, or a female wearing ultra high heels in the same, and please don’t deride me for wearing what I feel is comfortable and perfectly adequate.</p>
<p>To each his/her own so let’s be more tolerant of each other.</p>
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<p>When Son graduated from HS last year, I put on the nice dressy dress I had bought for the occasion and H put on…khakis and a Hawiian shirt. I couldln’t believe that he was so casual, but I was too busy to take on the battle. Believe me, he was certainly not the only dad at graduation in khakis and a Hawiian shirt. I was so glad I had not fought him over it, because it turned out that he was appropriately dressed for a big arena event.</p>
<p>I just now remembered what we saw one mom wearing at one college this summer. She was actually not on our tour, just standing in a line with her kid at the registrar’s office. Light colored knit pants that were so tight that she really truly might as well have been naked. Really. Nothing to the imagination. I can’t imagine how her son was ever able to get out of the car and walk around with her.</p>
<p>Thank you, ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad. I was beginning to think I was the only one. Very few people in my area (that I know, anyway) share the dress code of people on this thread. It’s normal to wear just about anything, and anything is fine as long as it’s clean.</p>
<p>Every now and then I think about whether we might want to retire to another part of the country - but I think we wouldn’t survive anywhere else :-).</p>
<p>Does it matter? Hahaa just don’t dress like a biker. And cover any unsightly tattoos!</p>
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<p>Dads are actually pretty lucky - if they put on the “uniform” of khaki pants and a shirt with a collar and buttons, they’re good to go almost anywhere.</p>
<p>“To each his/her own so let’s be more tolerant of each other.”</p>
<p>This is what’s wrong: the people who preach tolerance always want everybody ELSE to be tolerant while they continue to do whatever they want…no standards, no politeness, no consideration of other people…if it feels good and is convenient for ME, I’m going to do it. If my dog craps on your lawn, it’s you who’s uptight if you have a problem with it. If you don’t like looking at my hairy armpit while you’re eating, it’s you that has a problem. If you don’t like my super-loud music, it’s you who’s being intolerant.</p>