Fashion and travel

What I grew to love about travelling was how simple it makes your life. After a while I really appreciated the fact that I only had one or two changes of clothes and possible things to wear - we waste so much time choosing!!! and although I've never been really immaculate in my dress anyway, I liked the fact that I stopped worrying about how I looked and had better things to think about.
Since then I've adopted much more of a relaxed attitude to life generally. I've never really enjoyed shopping or understood what people see in it, and now I have the confidence not to do it! I only buy clothes when I really need them, and I really don't care that much how I look. I hardly have any shoes, and in summer as long as it's warm enough, I just live in flip flops/thongs, because they're easy and I feel relaxed walking around in them. I don't feel like I need to 'have' a lot of stuff and would rather spend my time doing other things than thinking about clothes. Also I wear my hair down a lot more. Until recently I had really long hair like yours Mell, only messier as it's curly - when I was travelling I took to wearing it down most of the time, even in the heat, because I just felt more relaxed that way, and I've kept that habit. I've always struggled anyway and never managed to look 'tidy' like other people, and now I've embraced how I naturally am, more, instead of comparing myself unfavourably against other women. It's a real relief! 😊
I'm interested to know as well how other travellers perceive other travellers depending on where they are? eg when I was in India, most travellers looked a bit of a mess like me, but when I arrived in Thailand, I saw a lot of travellers who looked a lot more 'polished' - and loads more women travellers wearing white clothes! How do they keep them clean????!!! I realised in my first week of travelling that it was a mistake to have brought anything white at all! Reply to this

I'm interested to know as well how other travellers perceive other travellers depending on where they are?

I dont think I saw any polished ones. Some looked neat and tidy, but in a very causal way, while some looked ecentric. Others looked sporty. India had a high percentage of ecentric ones, while Kyrgyzstan had a high percentage of sporty looking ones. In Europe I have seen some wear summer dresses and things like that.

How do they keep them clean????!!!

I asked a couple who dressed like that, how they manage to look so clean after a month of travelling in Thailand. They said, the clothes they were wearing were new. Reply to this

What you are wearing in your profile pic Debbie, looks a bit like what I am wearing right now. I wear those types of clothes on most days. In my profile pic is what I wear when I am going someplace like into the city or away for a weekend. Reply to this

There are SO many castles in Ireland!!! We had a challenge to see if we could drive for an hour without seeing one and it wasn't possible!

Ireland used to be a very unruly place, where people had to live in castles for protection. Thankfully, it has become safer in the last one or two thousand years. Reply to this

Hi,

Well, Mell and Debbie you both are looking good in your dresses, I do think that atleast for once you should adopt a fashion of different places where you travelling as, it just let you experience something different which is more fascinating.


Thanks!! Reply to this

It isn't silly if it's the locals that make you wear them!

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