<p>" And aren’t there some municipal pools in NY? "</p>
<p>Ewwwww.</p>
<p>^^^reminds me of my husband’s terse comment after visiting a municipal pool in Paris with our kids during that heatwave summer a few years back.</p>
<p>I said, “how was it?”</p>
<p>He said, “Czechoslovakia, 1968”</p>
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<p>Well, throw in some jeans, khakis and a hoodie, and that’s how my son, who goes to school in NY, dresses, and how my D who lived in Brooklyn dressed almost all the time.</p>
<p>The places that need dressier clothes are almost certainly places your S can’t afford.</p>
<p>Cheers–why would a kid want to buy a pair of (no doubt exensive) brand sneakers just cuz the “euro kids” are all wearing them?</p>
<p>"Shorts, sweats and flip flops or sneakers don’t always do the trick in NYC unless you want to scream “tourist” or “just visiting” with your outfit. Just a thought . . . "</p>
<p>My kids, who live here, dress this way.</p>
<p>He is 17 so he better not end up in any bars.
Thanks for all the good advice. Will toss in one pair of khakis and a dress shirt. Don’t need to worry about the flip flops. I have the only kid who lives in a beach town in Ca who won’t wear a pair. He wears socks and shoes to the beach.
I am sure he will pack light. He went to a middle school that took outdoor ed trips 3 times a year. They had an elaborate packing list. Each trip I would pack each and every item on the list. Every trip he would come back with most of it clean still in the ziplock bags I packed them in. By his 9th grade year I let him pack what he wanted.
I hope that kids in New York don’t wear their pants so everyone can see their underwear. I hope that he will soon outgrow that habit.</p>
<p>^lol. there’s the fair share.</p>
<p>WHen they open up the fire hydrants to cool off the neighborhood kids, he’ll be all ready.</p>
<p>Flip-flops can be a nuisance on a subway. Some gal can break your son’s toe with her stiletto heel.</p>
<p>My S wears a baseball cap a lot.</p>
<p>If he goes to anything in his buttondown and wants to feel dressed up, the addition of a tie will make him feel quite dressed up. </p>
<p>Summer in NYC is very hot and humid, some weeks, espec in subway stations. T-shirts or any cotton shirt is very well accepted. People tend to be in and out of crowds. They wear sneakers a lot bc of all the walking, so even if you show up where you’re trying to look “nice” and you have sneakers, people just assumed you walked over. It’s all good.</p>
<p>For entertainment, there’s a lot of off-off-broadway theater available for tickets at $10-18, not much more than a movie, but more memorable for his summer.</p>
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<p>Do they still do this? Even in high school here, it seems to be waning. My daughter went through jr. high wearing boxers and huge jeans which hung around her hips, sometimes even borrowing my husband’s jeans. I’m happy to report she now owns skirts, and recently shopped all over town for a slip because that’s what she felt would be appropriate for working with kids. Yeah, they grow out of this stuff. </p>
<p>As for NYC college-age son, he wears a lot of striped shirts with collars and jeans. He dresses up by changing shoes. Since he doesn’t tuck in his shirts, I have no idea where his underwear sits in relation to his belt.</p>
<p>What I remember about wearing flip flops in NYC is how grimey your feet get. I grew out of that.</p>
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<p>well,you can get to beaches by mass transit but its quite an undertaking.
Long Beach is probably the easiest.Jones Beach takes forever on mass transit,the Hamptons would require a cab after the looong LIRR ride and so would the Jersey shore beaches after NJTransit.You dont just walk off the train and be on the beach!
College kids don’t seem that ambitious,especially for day trips.Maybe for a weekend away but it would get pricey to try to stay anywhere near a beach in summer season…</p>