Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
What I'm currently seeing pretty much universally for males up to age 30 or so in my area is a t-shirt worn untucked with knee-length baggy shorts (or alternatively, though far less commonly, with jeans) and athletic shoes. An optional but common accessory is a ball cap with the bill turned backwards...
nearly every male in the place -- Caucasian, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander -- was dressed this way.
Yes for sure if you're in San Francisco. But travel a bit eastwards- to California's rural agricultural central valley- and you'll see Western Wear a-plenty. BTW you can pretty much tell when you're in an area where Western Wear can be encountered by turning on the radio. Nothing but Country Music round the radio dial, and you're in Western Wear country. Hip Hop? The locals will be dressed as Dale says above.

Just to clarify, I did not suggest that Western Wear was the most common dress today in the USA. What I did say was that it symbolises the USA to many outsiders. As I said before, dress which within a country is strictly seen as a regional (often rural) dress is often perceived by outsiders as a National Dress cf lederhosen for Germany, kilts for Scotland, cowboy dress for the USA etc etc. And, there are many places here in the USA where Western Wear is worn all day every day by most people, whether to clean out the barn or to go to a formal event.