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I will be teaching in Hawaii this coming school year and I want to go out and get some warm weather professional clothes, but I am not to sure what that looks like. I have been to a few schools in cali where "professionals dress" was not such a focus as appropriate dress. Is that true for Hawaii as well? Being in Boston for the past 4 years it has been easy for me to get some wool pants and heavy sweaters and get by. Now that my uniform needs a make over I am not sure what to do. Any ideas?
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It is easy here. My husband teaches in a golf shirt and shorts every day in a middle school. My women friend teachers tell me that a nice light dress or slacks and a blouse work fine.
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My friend teaches drumming at Kehena, and wears rubba slippa's.
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Wait until you get here and shop at local stores so you will have clothes that fit in. High heels are out, nylons are out and comfort is in. Comfortable clothing might be one of the best reasons to live in Hawaii. Where else other than Hilo can you wear your tall black rubber boots to the grocery store and not get funny looks?
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Would not recommend the rubba slippahs...
Took the substitute teachers course last summer & our instructor, also the principle of an intermediate school, wore nice 'dress' tees and capri pants or nice dressy shorts.... nothing too short or skimpy. She emphasized having shoes you can run in. Usually she had on nice, comfortable, higher than I would wear, sandals... but any confoartable shoe that looks nice would do. One thing she really did mention was not to come to her school straight from the beach, still in your surfing suit & no tank tops or spaghetti straps, these seemed to be common sense, but she said she had teachers that would come to school like that....
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At a private school that shall remain nameless, when I worked in the admin office, the business mgr had to tell the teachers that they needed to wear underwear!! ha ha
When I was forced to go to many inter-agency meetings here years ago, I had slacks or a skirt and silk (or other nice fabrics) tshirts that worked just fine here. Even now if I have to meet with COH dept's it is walking shorts or a skirt and a nice Tshirt. Never nylons.
I thought for many years when I was young that it was what I wore that would make others take me seriously.... ha ha.... it's so not!!
Being too mainland office dress style is closer to Honolulu style than the Big Island.
