What item of clothing is just considered an accessory in other places, but is a necessity where you live?

@Nimbus In New England, everyone had a scarf. I grew up in the South where we considered such things as only women's garments. My wife hated it, she'd buy me a scarf and I'd never wear the damned thing (even though they DID help).

@xixgun Awww,

Strange thing here is that only women wear regular scarves.
A man will only wear a football club scarf.

@Nimbus That's one of the things I like about Arizona. The state is so diverse (3 feet of snow and skiing in the North, Palm trees and swimming pools in the South, and both on the same day), you can dress any way you want. No one really seems to judge.

@Nimbus When I was a young person here in Texas I honestly thought that scarves were a fashion accessory. Even though it would get really cold several weeks each year and my mom made me wear one when small.

@REMsleep Understandable but here it can get to minus 15.

@REMsleep It can get cold as a well digger's ass in North Florida, too. The warmest thing I owned was a (1) flannel shirt and a denim jacket.

@xixgun Same. In Southeast costal Texas where I mainly am it gets sometimes wet bitter cold but in my 20s for like3-4 yrs I didn't own even a light jacket. I ran from car to house for that one month or so each yr.

@REMsleep There are times in Central Texas you are convinced in winter the only thing separating Texas from Canada is a barbed wire fence (as the skin on your forehead simply peels away because it's so cold)