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Originally Posted by _Q_
DC is disgusting in the summer. I never figured out how to dress there for those 6 months. Sure, you can wear shorts all the time, but then you get the crazy rain storms that require you to wear rubber boots and a jacket. Problem is, it doesn't cool down, so you end up soaked from the rain and from sweating profusely.
Then you get a break for 3 weeks, which is followed by 5 months of high winds and bone penetrating cold. No matter how many layers you have on, your face hurts from the weather.
Anyways, I always said, you definitely don't move to DC for the weather. Beautiful city with probably the worst weather on the planet.
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I'm glad it's not just me that feels like it is insanely cold here in the winter. Temperature wise, it's nothing compared to Calgary, but whenever I'm back in Calgary during winter, I feel like at -15 it still feels warmer than DC at +1 to about +5. I think it would be better if it would just get below freezing and snow, but instead it hovers right above and rains. Brutal!
I feel like Calgary has unique style needs in that whenever I'm there in the winter, I notice people keep their homes freaking hot! So you have to have clothes that are ok for super cold weather and also work for being in a house that's like 26!
Getting back to the original question of this thread and shorts. Even in DC where it is disgustingly humid and hot for about 5-6 months of the year, you very rarely, I mean exceedingly rarely, ever see men wear shorts to work. But then again, the city is pretty conservative in it's fashion choices too.
I guess a lot of the advice in this thread needs to be taken for what city you live in and industry you work in. Advice for San Francisco (I was shocked at how informal people dressed for downtown work there) probably won't work in Calgary.
I mean, shorts in a workplace seems to be something I'd love, but alas, definitely a career limiter where I work.