That's a nice house! I was listening to someone recently, talking about a job he had refurbishing one... I think it was single storey.

JAileen, I grew up in a 1920s Sears kit house! Single-story bungalow style. It could use some serious refurbishment at this point.

I have tried to give this some thought. Every other place I have lived has well defined neighborhoods and clear division between city, suburb and rural. Technically, I live in a small town, but it's rural, and it's boundaries blend with another small town that blends with a small city. Having said all that, I think people dress according to their socioeconomic and job status more than there being a neighborhood style culture. For example, a SAHM will dress differently than the professional lawyer next door, etc. A sales associate at the mall will dress differently than an LPN. The one thing I see that seems to bind most everyone together however are sports team logo's. Team spirit is huge. Team colors are huge. Apparel supporting your favorite team is very popular no matter who you are or your age. It's a great equalizer. Everyone has some, and everyone wears it, even if it's just a cap, or a tee.

@staysfit, i want to see your team wear.

How interesting that the towns blend together in terms of style, Staysfit. Styles definitely change between towns here...at 30 minutes out tho, things start getting to be the same from town to town...

La Pedestrienne, do you have a picture of your house? It's so fascinating, yet unbelievable that the materials for an entire house could be ordered and delivered from Sears. Mind boggling!

Around here you can pretty much guess someone's family heritage, voting patterns, level of religiosity and main language spoken by how they dress. But not always accurately.

It's kinda funny, shevia... Speaking of religiosity... Know rather a few people who think they're orthodox in their respective religions... but they're the only ones who do... that's always a little weird, lol...

Seattle's neighborhoods have changed. For the last four plus years there's been a huge influx of people & more are coming.
There's one neighborhood, Ballard, which used to be a separate city back before 1907. It's was known for the Scandinavians who lived there for the fishing industry.
I remember back in late 90's to early 2000's, it was still pretty blue collar, working class, with a rockabilly contingent.
Now it's become trendy, with tons of condos & big apartment buildings. The change finally dawned on me when I was having a drink at one of new fancy bars. 20 something woman sitting next to me wearing a plaid shirt, skinny jeans & colored new balance sneakers, basically right out of a Madewell catalog. But on her wrist was a Cartier Love bracelet & a Cartier watch.

The new influx & new money confuses me. All my mental memory of neighborhoods doesn't apply anymore. My neighborhood used to be arty/weird. But one night I saw a red Mustang stretch limo outside one of the bars. It just didn't fit.

Red Mustang stretch limo? I cannot imagine that fitting anywhere.

Cartier and Madewell! That's so New Socialite/Hipster 2.0!

Went to the third debate tonight - ballot measures. Fascinatingly, smaller crowd but one inclusive of 'foreigners' (ie, peeps from other districts and the farther edge of our district, hehe). Got reds and pea green and a mustard yellow beret! Oh and some Miss Marple long bobs!!!

I live Ina tiny village in the country the men are a mix of mostly farmers or builders you can tell by the wellies or the boots the builders wear hoodies and the farmers wear woolly jumpers and pattern shirts females seem to be mostly in leggings or jeans but there is one pub that the nicely dressed females seem to go to for a sing song rural Ireland is like the movies still

Ooh, can you tell if someone is from the neighboring village, shaz, by anything they wear (or how)...or is it obvious because you know everybody?

Maybe with men there's a slight difference men in my village all seem to be sporting beards now while in the next village it's pony tails easier to tell the townies or tourists mostly by footwear

I'm planning to go to the county commission's public forum to discuss a proposal to dispose of public lands. If I get mad enough I may get up to speak. Of course what I wear would be important. Because this is the wild west, I was thinking of jeans, sweater, boots, and a coat. Would my new Pendleton buffalo check coat be too much, or would normcore Patagonia or North Face puffer be better?

Rachy--Oddly enough, there is very little fleece here.

No fleece?! (Or scarce fleece...) Mind boggle!

JAileen - Ooh, that's tough. I'm tempted to say North Face. That suggests money. Politicians respect money...

Rachy, that's interesting, I hadn't thought of that aspect. A decade ago when we had to persuade the HS principal to support band, the other parents were rich, and the principal was persuaded.

It's kinda interesting. Pendleton can be money too, but North Face adds an 'I'm gonna be a stinker' touch. You know, like 'I know what NextDoor is and I'm gonna use it.'

I live in a small town in NE New Jersey, where all the towns run together so I can't really contribute much insight here.

There are people of all kinds, religions, races, economic levels, it is an interesting place to live.

But on the other hand NJ has some very backward thinking

Now why does 'everybody' from NJ say it's backward?