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jillford64 · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 397 Location: Sin City

The dress code for the language school where I will be teaching in Morelia is "office/business casual." Most of my classes will be at the school, but I will also teaching in offices and businesses. I mostly plan to wear pants, but I am taking a knee-length black dress skirt (I can wear this with a jacket if for some reason I need to look really proffessional) and a less casual, knee-length skirt (also black), which I normally wear with flat sandals or low strappy heels and no pantyhose. Where I've worked in the US with the same dress code, most of the women under 50 rarely wore pantyhose.

Not sure about what is acceptable in Mexico: Are bare legs OK for office/business casual? Does age have anything to do with it (I'm 43)? Will an office setting be more formal than a school setting? Does it matter than I am fairly pale?

Jill

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

Jill, you should ask your school director those specific questions to make sure you get it right. It gets quite chilly there in the Fall and winter so I can't imagine wearing bare legs and open toe shoes in the winter.

ontoit · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 99

Pantyhose have alway struck me as appropriate, especially for dinner at eight. But I wonder what happens when the temperature rises. I banished those thin dress socks made from nylon long ago because they were mini foot saunas in the summer. So it seems to me that hot and pantyhose are a bad combination.

MELEE · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject:

I've seen Mexican women in wool tights at 90 degress in full sun. Razz

But I've also noticed both in Morelia and around the state of Oaxaca, that pany hose seem domain of the upper class in Mexico. Lots of people do not wear them. I think you'd be fine either way. Why not just wait and see what the people around you are wearing when you get there and follow their lead?

jillford64 · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 397 Location: Sin City

Winter? I had not planned on winter. Just kidding. Man, trying to pack for 10 months and get it all in one carry-one bag and two suitcases is hard. I'm trying to come prepared for any situation and I feel like I need to bring all the clothes, pantyhose, and shoes with me that I think I might need with me since buying them in Mexico will be hard (I am tall, kind of heavy, and have big feet!). The DOS emailed me a section of the dress code, which helped a little.

Samantha, I checked out that link to weatherunderground that you posted elsewhere, which was quite handy. I was able to search historical data by date range to get a good idea of temperature, etc during different times of the year.

Melee, where you in Morelia in fall/winter? I'm planning to bring a light-weight coat that has a liner that can be zipped out and a couple of sweaters for layering. Do you think that will be adequate?

MELEE · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

jillford64 · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 397 Location: Sin City

Thank you for the information and good wishes, Melee. I arrived in Morelia yesterday.

Jill