Fashion of Dunedin

I feel like I haven't gone through the fashion here quite enough, for someone who's counting down the days until they leave, thus, I bring you my Dunedin fashion report... through the eyes of an amurrican.

So, firstly, it'd be fair to start by recognising that the people here are not in quite the same time period as the people in the states, though it's not really one that I could put my finger on. Best guess? 90s.

It'd also be fair to note that I'm speaking from a winter into spring view point, which fails to include the sometimes necessary fall and summer clothing categories.

We'll take this on a gender split, looking at popular trends.

Ladies of Dunners

• Printed Pants: flowers are the common, but basically anything that's overly colorful, eye popping, or overtaking is seemingly appropriate as a bottom. I like it, don't get me wrong, but it's definitely new. It's often printed jeans, but also extends to printed leggings. Printed stockings are not particularly popular though.
• Jumpers over Collared Shirts: the shirt will be some nice, girly colour, made of some nice, girly fabric like a chiffon looking bit... it's also often a sleeveless/tanktop style of collared shirt. The jumper will be big, and the shoulders wide enough to see more than just the collar-- often big enough to see the lady'd shoulders, which are bare due to the cut of the aforementioned sleeveless collared shirt. Whilst discussing this trend with someone, we came to the conclusion that it gave off the air of, "I wanted to dress up, and I got close, but just couldn't quite do it."
• Ballerina Buns: proper. bun atop the head. Cute... haven't done this since I was a wee kidling, but I've been taking advantage of this comfortable hair positioning.
• Super High Ponytails: like, a 2 year old. same view as the previous. 
• Shorts/Skirts over Stockings: done particularly with a jumper overtop all of it... Generally I find the length of the bottoms to either be uncomfortably short, or awkwardly long. Every other person does it though.
• Short Skirts [sans stockings]: now that the sun is shining pretending to be present, pants are coming off and legs are being left for the world to oogle at. Lucky for dunners boys, the legs are aplenty because holyshit do people wear short skirts here.... like 7th-grader-prepubescent-and-4-feet-tall-so-it's-okay-that-my-skirt-is-too-short short.
• Booties with Heels: the heels that make you no taller, but make it sound like a teacher is coming down the hallway when you walk. Kinda cute... sorta works...
• Obviously dyed Blonde Hair: emphasis on the roots, super streaky, fades to blonde as you go down. I don't mind it... it's definitely a look, and a look that's more acceptable than the chick with horribly dyed red hair who's sitting next to me right now.
• Puffers: like, that black northface that everyone HAD to have in middle school. 

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• Long Backed Tees: okay, so, imagine you have two teeshirts.... one is the right size, and one is 4 sizes too big... you take the front of the first one, and back of the second one, and sew them together so you now can fully cover your butt.... since I guess that's what you were going for?
• Trackies: maybe I'm just clouded by their frequent wearing in my flat, but they're like track pants... with stripes down the side... like you're going to put on a sweatband and run for a while while watching richard simmons do something vaguely interesting. Fucking comfortable though, so as a constant pj wearer, I have nothing to say.
• Skinny Jeans: the skinniest of skinny jeans. Did you want to see every fiber of his calf muscle? well you'll have to. that option wasn't given. These will generally be worn with the aforementioned tail teeshirts or an equally oversized jumper. it's like, 80s female sweater over leggings look.
• Wrong Coloured Pockets: take a teeshirt and sew on a pocket that's the wrong material, wrong color, wrong pattern, or wrong size, and you'll be doing it right. 
• Rolled up Pants Bottoms: perfect in preparation for the floods..... only bettered by shnazzy socks underneath. 
• Stubbies: these are really just rubgy shorts but people wear them around everywhere. They're like the shortest shorts [though likely rivaled by the shorts of Europeans]. Would be made of nylon or some other comfy gym-short like material. I can dig.
• Teeny Boxer Briefs: want tightie whities? maybe you can find them if you look hard enough. Want regular airy boxers? no shot. Everyone here has hotpants for underwear. again, few complaints.

As an overall, everyone likes striped clothing here.

Lastly, and this isn't much a fashion trend, but everyone skateboards around here... often on the tinniest, brightest coloured little skateboards I've ever seen.