Ok, so we are going over for a week at the beginning of August, to sort out temp housing, open bank accounts, view houses to buy, etc etc.

I want to fit in with the locals and not look like a typical tourist.

Obviously I wont be wearing my usual work suits - so what kind of clothes are acceptable for this sort of thing?

Will it still be very hot?

Please advise for hubby and I!!!

Thanks

Bombards

According to Canadian law, whenever the temperature is over 12C, all people are required to wear shorts, T-shirt/polo shirt and sandals, with white socks. Stick to that and you'll be fine.

Temperature-wise, assume that it will be 25-35C, not including humidex.

Don't forget the baseball cap

If its under 12° then Jeans / Chinos are the norm.

My office has AC, im still wearing shorts, and glad of it. If we didnt have safety rules I would have my sandals on too...

However, the socks with sandals thing is a myth, I dont know anyone that sad. I still find the number of people who wear white sport socks regardless of the shoe a bit alarming though, but really the number of people who wear them with sandals is no worse then the UK..there is just more oportunity for sandal wear here!

Brace yourself, this is a UK website!

Don't worry too much...

Canada really doesn’t have very much sense for fashion...

if you dress like you would at home they don't think tourist they think immigrant....

The ones they consider tourists here are either Japanese easily spotted by having gadgets we can’t buy here yet and traveling in groups of 20 or more.. or Americans who are in fact dressed even worse than your average Canadian with a rather rude attitude…

Almost everybody else goes un-noticed.

Spoilsport!

D'oH SORRY!

Yep, forgot to say that everything you wear should be red plaid, although its fine to mix plaid with stripes in a pinch (on laundry day?), and anywhere West of Montreal a very new looking white Stetson is required to pass unnoticed among the locals. East of Montreal a Davy Crocket beaver or racoon hat is required. And under no curcumstances should a man leave the house without his "suspenders"! In Vancouver you must grow a goatee. Yes, even the women



Is that OK?

And have totally bleached hair dude, and a muscle-bod (male or female).
And cycle to work and be vegan. And recycle your own pee. And start aerobics at dawn and visit the gym five times weekly. And eat sushi.



Rich.

Well, I eat sushi Not exclusively though . I'd definitly be turned back by the BC border control officials by the sound of it, so I guess I'm staying in my Ontario backwater

Not so good news coming out of London, again.

Shorts in the office????????????? God, I'd never get away with that even on the hottest of English days.....

Dave does not even own sandals only leather flip floppy things, which you can't wear with socks, so got away with that one too!

Don't do plaid, so guess we really will look like immigrants...


Just worried about the sweaty bits......... :scared:


Thanks

Bombards

Yes don't wear a flat cap, trilby, top hat, crinoline, bowtie or waistcoat.

Dress like this guy.


http://www.redgreen.com/

This has to be the most overriding reason ever for moving to Canada

Freedom of air movement

(as I am self employed I live in them now but it has its draw back with stuffy clients)

So true. When my wife tells me that I'm dressed like Canadian, it's code for "go and change".

Some employers are more liberal than others. Its fine here, but I wouldnt wear them to a meeting in the Toronto head office. My previous (unloved / unmissed) employer would not let the engineering staff wear them, even if the shop floor we spent a lot of the day on was not air conditioned and often had humidex #s up in the 40s in the summer and the hourly staff would wear as little as they could get away with.

Your Mileage May Vary!