Who is the Ultimate Florida Fashionista?

Every Florida native is intimately familiar with the somewhat warranted Florida fashion cliche: tanned, peroxided, frosted-lipstick wearing, wrinkled beach (dumb) babes and their guys, who are - of course - pasty, flabby, tacky, Hawaiian-shirted dudes who drive ugly convertibles.

Sure, spend any amount of time on the West Coast (Clearwater Beach = Linda Hogan-lookalikes aplenty) and you will definitely see your fair share of Lycra, leopard print and pleather, but I assure you, this is a small sampling of the wide range of gaudiness and (yes) truly inspired fashion senisibilities Florida has to offer. Florida actually has a pretty cool style if you can get past the flip-flop formal wear and near-obsession with fake double-d cups.

Floridians - like their northern counterparts in NYC - are not afraid to get funky, look silly or be dramatic. After all, Tampa is the Goth Capital of the continental U.S.

And unlike SoCal, we're more than just our bronzed and buffed abs. We're pretty freakin' freaky. We have all kinds of cultures informing our style - so don't be surprised if you see a Pink Polo (popped collar and all) paired with shorts that bear the Dominican flag. Or if you spy a sluccer mom (slutty soccer mom - low-cut tank top paired with Old Navy jeans); a notsosexual (wannabe metrosexual who thinks Prada shades and Crocs are designer); Bumionairre (bum exterior, but owns "Hooters" restaurants, motels and a tractor rental company so is worth billions).

We're like fashion centaurs. We Floridians don't really care if our top halves and bottom halves match - as long as we look hot and manage to stay cool. We are essentially living in a big swamp, so we figure the rest of the world should be impressed that we have clothes on at all.

So all this leads to the question du jour: Who is the ultimate Florida fashionista?

Is it the Tampa goth/punk/dirt rocker? The Miami model/Latin lover/bronzed beauty? The Palm Beach debutante? The Gaineseville hippie/hipster? The Key West beach bum/sandal slut? The St. Augustine surfer/surferette?

Stay tuned...we're going to hit the streets to find an answer!