The Korean idea of fashion is very different from the way that we dress here. Riding the train I got a very good idea of how the average Korean dresses.
Men: The Korean men love to wear skinny jeans. Not the older men, they mostly seemed to wear dockers, but the younger generation. More than once I wondered how they even got those pants on! They seemed much too tight! When I expressed this to Hubby he said you would put them on "very carefully" lol.
Women: Korean women do not show ANY cleavage because it is considred taboo there. This is pretty much the exact opposite of how American women dress. However, while breasts may be taboo, showing off anything below the waist seems to be entirely ok. The women wear booty shorts ( and by booty I mean BOOTY, the leg of the short seemed almost non exisitent!) or very short skirts. If it is cold they wear leggings or tights underneath but very little is left to imagination. When it is cold, the women seems a little top heavy because they wear big puffy jackets and then the have their skinny legging covered legs. Even the young elementray school girls that we saw on the trains wearing uniforms were sporting ridiculously short skirts. Hubby remarked that if we had children, he would not want his daughter wearing a skirt that short, uniform or not! The women also like to wear platforms shoes and shoes that have bling on them or sparkle.
Both men and women seemed to love brightly colored neon sneakers!
Neon makes everything better!!!!
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