Getting bogged down in all this is so silly, and I do it over and over and over again.No one else cares and no one is going to judge unless you show up in a backwards baseball cap or spandex bike clothes, flourescent sneakers, and all that.and then you will look like a good percent of the locals in Paris or many other cities around the globe. Black cotton t-shirt-type tops, ss/ls and maybe (in my new-ish fave combos) navy t-shirt and griege t-shirt for wear with black pants or shorts. I believe in wearing white denim all year round with black on top. Next trip, and I say this every single time, I will bring 1 pair black jeans, one pair blue denim, and maybe a pair of white denim/maybe not. Shoes will probably be Arche black suede, open on sides, zip in back.one of their classic styles but I forget the name. I think I will wear the black jeans, black ss t-shirt, and loose white linen long sleeved shirt to double for jacket. Tomorrow lunch will find me, if all goes to plan, in another very well-regarded restaurant in semi-rural area. Does not matter what I wore, the fact is that I felt I fit in and was comfy and treated well. I felt very comfy and passable with a good pair of black jeans that fit well, a good navy t-shirt, and yes, a linen almost-white work jacket from Uniqlo. I was in an upscale (rural area, not in a city) restaurant in Spain for lunch today (Sunday) if I had to guess, I'd say that at least a quarter of diners under 60 were wearing blue jeans, and I don't think I heard anyone not speaking Spanish. Or take some of the pre-wrinkled cottons and worry only if they get to look unwrinkled! I for one, do not understand how linen gets dirtier than cotton (?) Or wrinkles more (?) The difference is that with good linen, a wrinkled shirt can look good and not messy like some wrinkled cotton shirts. Really, let this go, and all the anxiety with it!! No one is going to be assessing your clothing, and what works for you in your home town might not work for me in mine. I would not take white shoes for travel in April, unless you have some sneakers,l I guess, I don't like white sneakers myself. I would never wear black shoes with white linen pants. Depends on your age as to what you can get away with without looking ridiculous anywhere, but in any large European city, I'd say. I would never wear white linen pants anywhere in April in the US, actually, not in the center of a major big northern city. Your American style sounds regional and age-specific because there is not a usual styles that screams American about my normal styles, as far as I'm concerned. I don't stay in chic arrondissements and believe me, hundreds of Parisians are normal, working class folk not dressed up at all in the metro, on the street, etc. You are not going to disguise that you are American, that's for sure. Nobody really cares what tourists wear, to be honest. I guess if yoiu were going to a beach resort somewhere in the US in summer or the Caribbean, maybe. That is a very odd choice for travel to Europe or anywhere, given how linen wrinkles and gets dirty easily.
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