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I work with little kids, and they could care less how I dress, whether my hair is done, or if I have makeup on. I wear tracksuit pants to work frequently, alternating with jeans and other casual pants (I love cords). Part of it is the activity level of my job; I need to be wearing clothes that allow a lot of freedom of movement because sometimes I am sitting on the floor with the kids, kneeling next to a kid, etc. I was getting my picture taken recently for a church directory, and the photographer asked if I was a P.E. teacher because of how I was dressed--I told him he wasn't far off.
I also live in an EXTREMELY casual town. Oregonians don't really dress up much. You could get away with wearing jeans and flip-flops to the fanciest restaurant in my town; if a restaurant were to try and enforce a dress code requiring a collared shirt or a tie, they would probably go out of business. There is also a university here, which means a certain segment of the population wears pajamas and slippers/Ugg-type boots everywhere. One of the parents I used to nanny for said she loved the fact she could get away with wearing her pajamas to the store. No one in this town would look twice at you if you did. I think you'd get stranger looks if you were dressed to the nines.
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