NY Fashion report

While I started my blog thinking I would feature what I wear on tour, I have not talked about clothes or fashion once... I better give a quick overview. Except for the two days of 25 degree weather it has been around 10 degrees each day so people are still lightly rugged up. There is not a great deal of variation in the general outfitting - slimmish pants/jeans, a few slouchies; jacket, scarf. So nothing too exciting to report. However the TOTE BAG is everywhere from the corporate execs last week to the girls on the street... see this Sam Edelman number for example of the vibe of the styling

The other thing is that girls on the streets here wear a lot of heavy-ish boots - ankle to knee. All the lovely young things wear a variation of this - maybe its cos of the cold, tramping streets etc, and it was still snowing here about 2 weeks ago. I have to say there were possibly versions of this in Copenhagen as well - maybe a little lighter in styling but...

Sandals for coming summer here still feature the t-bars but the ones that that really stand out and are in every range as well as in higher heels/with ankle straps, but these flats are everywhere - note the bar across the front of the foot and the ankle buckle - this is THE shoe of the season

As for hair, people seem to have the natural-ish longish hair - not overly straightened and you don't see all that stripey foils etc here either. What I have seen in mags, on tv, and a little on the streets is the fringe teased a little and pinned back off the face with bobby pins. So no fringe on face AT ALL, the deliberate pinning up off the face (Ali I think we copied something like this when we were 6 so a real 60s 70s vibe) and a bit of teasing. Apparently Up dos are the thing.

I suspect nails are getting longer and varnished but that is just my take from the movies... Nothing overly different is jumping at me off the streets for clothes for summer coming up - still the bright colours, b and w, a bit more oversized, etc... Our clothes are not so different overall I would think...

Sunglasses - Aviators... ON the street stalls and some of the trendier optometrists are going toward a really big oversized round frame with extreme side bars - so think Jackie O glasses from the 60s but really ROUND (not Harry Potter small). THose narrow rectangle glasses are gone here... not one to be seen. Geek Chic big plastic frames/Raybans are normal in the ads but its the aviators which are on the faces on the street.

The other thing is that people are absolutely tiny here. I thought this size 2 and 4 thing was about being really skinny but its just that people are REALLLLLLY tiny and thin with it. Put it this way, the Asian people look BIG. The mexicans (I presume they are mexicans) are heavier built but very short so maybe not even up to my shoulder. I very very rarely see tall people, maybe occassionally an afro-american girl who is tall and sometimes heavier as well. Someone did suggest the goldfish principle that because people live in apartments they don't get so big - who knows, Just tiny tiny tiny people.