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Forget culture, history and all things beautiful about traveling. Let’s talk fashion for a minute.
What I’ve seen by hopping between two travel cultures – southeast Asia and India – is a dramatic change in traveler’s clothing. Southeast Asia is beach culture, for the most part. Tank tops, flip flops, loose fisherman-style pants and skirts are the traveler’s choice.
Northern India has a rather different culture with a much more conservative vibe. You see less tank tops, though you don’t have to look that far to find the ignorant traveler (an obviously frustrated soul wrote the note below).
The look here is more, well, exactly what you would imagine India travelers looking like. Flowing skirts, embroidered light cotton long-sleeve shirts and pseudo turban head band things. (I’m not going to touch the diaper-pants again; you know how I feel about those at this point). Anyway, the look is hippie-chic. It’s nauseating.
That is, until I started shopping for new clothing. And suddenly, I’ve become one of them. There are no other options out there. Unless I want to buy t-shirts that have “Hell was full so I came back” printed on them, hippie-chic was my choice. Feel free to make fun of me.
Who knows, I may be reading palms and discussing aura colors soon.
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