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Seattle: Do you dress like you're going to have a 'hiking emergency'?

caption: Clara Berg, Dana Landon, and Andrew Hoge.
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Clara Berg, Dana Landon, and Andrew Hoge.
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Here we are in balmy June-uary, still clad in waterproof — and arguably unstylish — garb. With our tendency to dress like a "hiking emergency" could break out at any moment (as one listener put it): Is Seattle a fashionable city?

Wellll... it depends on how you define fashionable, said our panel. But Seattle does have something special that's all its own.

Clara Berg is a specialist and textile specialist at MOHAI. Andrew Hoge is the style and society writer for Seattle Magazine. And Dana Landon records the city's sartorial pulse at the street fashion blog It's My Darlin'.

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