I I live in Dublin a small capital city population 1.5 million. I live in suburbs but can walk to city centre. Young people are very trendy with plenty of wide leg jeans and barrel leg shapes. Plenty of Lulumelon dressed young mothers with designer baby buggies. Older women tend to wear puffy jackets and straight jeans. At night people don’t dress up as they used to and if you dress up especially in suburban areas to eat out you look a bit like you are trying too hard. In the city centre people do dress up a bit especially at weekends and in more upmarket restaurants. I am influenced by my environment. I don’t like skinny jeans on me anymore as I feel dated in them. I saw a woman in our local shopping centre recently she had really wide jeans and an oversized jjacket she looked so cool I thought I would try the look. I haven’t bought the items yet but she gave me such inspiration.

The main trend I see here in Auckland (largest city in NZ, about a million people?) is sneakers. When I went to our Fashion Week in late August (late winter for us) so many people were wearing them. Not me, because to me they feel too casual and I wear them for comfort. I wore comfortable but more dressy boots as that felt better for my own style. I took 2 girlfriends along to a show who had never been before (I have been to several since 2009) and one of them said beforehand that she would be worried by all the fashionistas- but I told her not to worry! There was a huge range of clothing but I notice the street style photos are of more trendy stuff.
The other main trend I see where I live and work in the suburbs is wider leg pants. They are not my personal favourite and so I am only mildly influenced, owning one middling wide pair and one wide pair out of my 15 pairs of pants. I did wear the wide leg pants to the show though- with sparkly boots.
One thing I have noticed the blog does is alert me to trends, such that when I then read a couple of NZ fashion websites say once a week I recognise the trends and have already seen them on Angie’s blog! It doesn’t make me buy them, unless they are something I already like, or can bring out something I already own that fits with one.

I had to Google the show. I mean...these seem like nice, normal clothes to me. If you went to Nashville, you would see more cosmopolitan dress, but also stuff like this.

The U.S. can be so much about wearing what you want, no matter what city you are in. Nice or not, trendy or not. If this is just a small city in TN, then what she is wearing is probably NICER than what a lot of people are wearing in the suburbs.

TV sitcoms are not a good place to go to understand American dress--they are more fantasy than anything. I would LOVE to open my closet and find a bunch of clothes from any sitcom character. They are just better. Sitcoms will also dress people strategically to appeal to the widest audience--making a woman seem country but also like the leader of a company.

Often TV stylists are ahead of the game. I see a lot of aughts patterns and colors--maybe we will be wearing this in a year. Also reminds me of QVC--I adore looking at clothes like this on QVC.