Things I learned on the trip:

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3) Fashion

Fashion in Rome is weird. There is something uncanny about the city itself.

You know how totally moronic and ugly Capri pants look? They don't, in Rome. I don't get it. I mean, I was looking at someone walking down the street, looking good, and I noticed that she looked good, and that her clothes looked good, and I imagined her in Boston, and was shocked to realize that she would have looked awful back home. Same outfit, same person, but, in a different city, a totally opposite effect.

So Lis and I started watching more carefully, and we noticed that ALL the outfits we saw looked good in Rome, and we mentally transported them to different cities.

A few of them would have looked good in Florida. A different set of them -- almost no overlap between that set and the first set -- would have worked in New York.

None of them would have worked in Boston. And the only difference was setting.

Noticing this fact saved Lis from buying a couple outfits that would have looked adorable in Rome, but, once we got them home, would have gotten us wondering what the hell we were smoking.

Comments

[fibro-witch.livejournal.com]

I have a closet full of outfits that came back with me. I did not discover that bit of information until I put one on. Stuff that might have worked in Boston. Sure did not work in Hartford.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

This is SO TRUE! Shopping while traveling is very very tricky for this reason. Which is good, because it means you have to haul less stuff home.

[stickylatex.livejournal.com]

That's funny. I'm sure I wouldn't ever notice anything like that. When it comes to fashion, I like what I like, but have NO idea what "works" and what doesn't, much less in different contexts!