Hi, everybody, I'm back!
The trip was fun - it was great to see our adult son functioning in such a different culture, and especially great because he did the talking and brought us food.
I have lots of pictures (most of which you can see on my trip posts at http://journal.brokenclay.org), but no pictures of street style, for two reasons:
- It rained every day. Every day! So there was no comfortable way to settle down somewhere and actually take pictures of people.
- It felt rude to try to take people's pictures, which brings up the questions:
How do you go about taking pictures of people in public? Do you ask their permission? What's the etiquette of this sort of thing?
The subway (which we rode every day) was the best place to study what people were wearing. The trends I saw on young women:
- skinny jeans/leggings - everywhere! So much so that I really noticed when I saw a couple of people wearing boot-cut jeans
- boots
- bubble hems (is that what they're called? When the hem is drawn up?)
- ruched and asymmetric long tops
- short layered over long - tunics with cropped jackets especially
- sparkles/sequins - sparkly camisole with skinny jeans, hard-edged jacket and boots, for example
On older women, I tended to notice more of what I'll call an Asian aesthetic - more old-fashioned silhouettes but with bright patterns/colors/sparkles.
When the shoes weren't boots, they were cute flats, bulky athletic shoes a la American tourists, or very trendy fashion trainers (leather, with bright colors or metal tones).
Eyeglasses were bold, dark, wide temple pieces with sparkles. An interesting theme was men wearing eyeglasses with white, yellow or pink frames.
