.. or at least the willingness to experiment with your wardrobe! We've spent the last three weeks travel, travel, travelling. To London, Hong Kong and all round New Zealand. A new day, a new destination. So I tried to travel light and bring things with multiple uses.
Different countries have different clothes, even in this international day and age. We all know America wears jeans, and if you want to get some, that is definitely the place to go - cheap and a myriad of different styles, uses and stores.
UK? Depends on where you go - there's nothing I like better than sitting on the Underground in London and watching what everyone wears, as there's such a lot of fashion styles and agendas and they all influence each other in different ways. Places like Aberdeen, people tend to wear whatever is in fashion - so whatever the shops have in - and they all wear it at the same time! So it's pretty boring from a style point of view (of course you do get the odd person who is more original in their clothes choices but not many). Personally, I mix and match for work (I like to think I have my own style but am not a fashion victim), but out of work I wear jeans all the time - it's easier given the weather and my dog-walking duties.
New Zealand? It turns out they don't wear jeans vey much at all. It's such an outdoors culture and they have the right weather too - so it's all leggings, sports-related and outdoors gear.
Here in Hong Kong they're very fashion-conscious and are pretty much built to wear what they like (small and petite) - so it's still leggings but layering as well, with some jeans. And as it's still winter as far as they're concerned (cool summer temperatures as far as I'm concerned!) they're rocking puffer jackets and layering up leggings and skirts etc.
Naturally I'm open to influences, plus I'm running out of stuff to wear! So today, given that I'm balancing the preference for an outfit to hold my head up in downtown Hong Kong (did I tell you we're in Kowloon, 3 stops from Mong Kok - the most densely-populated area in the WORLD) with the wish to be comfortable during our eleven-hour flight to London tonight and the need to be warm when we get to Aberdeen tomorrow, I'm wearing leggings and a long sleeve top with a stretchy leopardskin dress over and a sweatshirt over that. (Holding in the background my turquoise running shoes and matching fleece hoody to top it all off - not sure about that last set but it's all I got!)
World, here I come! One question - socks or no?
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