Observations: Vietnamese Fashions

Women:

• Pants must be tight around the thighs. Loose pants are reserved for home.
• Donning thick socks (white or patterened) with heels is stylish
• Weaing high stilettos on motorbikes is norm.

Men:

• Sporting jackets 4 sizes too big is cool. (Imagine skinny 5'3 Vietnamese man wearing a XXXXL)

All:

• It is okay to wear your PJs out of your home. It is also okay to drive a motorbike in your PJs.
• Jeans are appropriate for all occasions.
• Flamboyant jackets with studs and glitter all over are acceptable.
• Fur-lined coats are perfect for 70 degree weather.
• Wearing the same clothes day after day is acceptable, if not encouraged to reduce load of laundry.
• Picking dandruff from each other's head is very appreciated.
• Being smelly is norm. It's not necessarily because one doesn't take a shower, but because the weather in Hanoi doesn't permit clothes to dry peroperly - leading to very smelly clothes.