[Urbane Guerrilla]

I'd understood them to be pickled also, from a friend who spent most of a year Down Under fairly recently.

Ugg Boots are downtown wear in at least parts of Southern California. Too, in SoCal you're fairly formal if you put a tie on over your t-shirt and are shod in something other than sandals or flip-flops/go-aheads/thongs.

The river-expedition-raffish look of the knee-length or longer shorts adorned with cargo pockets both sides, flap pockets on the butt optional, is become three-season wear nowadays. Has this look hit Oz yet, Ali?

And when the weather gets what passes for cold here, we keep the adventure shorts and throw on a jacket over everything. A hat, a jacket -- and bare knees. Socks not always.