fllece, polartek jackets
 

would you see polartec jackets in cities in europe in the winter? during the day for sightseeing.- London, for example. not for a fancy restaurant etc I realize.

meant fleece!

If that's what you wear to stay warm, don't worry about it. You will see many Londoners during the day in business dress, not in parkas, as they go about their business. You however will be sightseeing and on vacation. If you have a warm wool coat and layers underneath, that would I think be a more 'chic' alternative and would be versatile for evenings as well, but if your winter jacket is more casual, so be it.

Hi J,

From whence will you be coming?

London isn't as cold as Minneapolis-St Paul.

Joanel:

Forive me, but you're about to run into a Flannerant

There is one rule about dress in London. Just one.

With a couple of minor exceptions (like appearing in a court of law, or pitching for the Megacorp account) you wear precisely what you like.

For some reason, many visitors seem to be in denial about this. Clearly unaware of what goes on here, or determined to drag us into their petit-bourgeois provincialism, they insist that you "should" do something (like not wear jeans in restaurants), or that you'll get better service if you wear some kind of uniform.

Claptrap, all of it. And clearly (take two seconds when you get here and look about you) coming from people who are simply blind.

If you want to wear a fleece to go to a posh restaurant (or even to the opera at Covent Garden), that's nobody's business but yours.

Rant over. Now start asking the questions that are worth asking: like where's the best dim sum, when isn't the Raphael exhibition crowded, are the Roman sculptures in the Carlsbeg Glyptotek exhibition the best anyone's ever seen or are my taxes really being wasted on stuff as boring as "Stuff Happens".

And, right now most important of all: who's seen the architecture gallery at the V+A?

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you will see some business people in a nice overcoat but most will be wearing a poorly fitting, dirty, cheap suit topped with a parka (sometimes fleece). anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes on the tube during rush hour i think would agree.

There is absolutely nothing more pathetic IMO than "looking chic" and as a result, freezing your a** off.

We were in Rouen, one year when it was cold and and we bought a fleece jacket for my husband who stll wears it after those several years ago.