One thing that makes me quite surprised is the reaction of foreigners about "miniskirts in winter".
Here are some articles that I've found on some blogs so far. (I'm very sorry to my English-speaking friends, but all the articles are written in German. Since I'm too lazy to translate them into English, you may go to this website and get some help.)
Ist so kalt der Winter...
Kälte & Röcke (Minirock im Winter)
Minirock im Winter
Je kälter die Tage, desto kürzer die Röcke
I don't know whether it just happened by chance that the German blogs I came across have all the same reaction about miniskirts in winter or this would be the same to other nationalities.
A Chinese blogger reported a similiar experience on his blog.
My life in Korea
My question:
Do German (and Chinese) girls never wear miniskirts in winter?
In fact, it doesn't matter whether the temperature is nearly at the zero point or even falls to 10 degrees below zero - not a few girls would still go out with their miniskirts.
그게 그렇게 이상한가요? ^^;
Hmm...
10 comments:
There is a common saying in Taiwan that girls who want to look beautiful are not afraid of running nose.
That's interesting:) There's a common saying very similiar to it in Korea too.
If you give me winter, I will wear anything...mini skirt.... PJs...... hanbok......running nose also can lah.....
even in summer you hardly see that many girls wearing mini skirts in germany as one can observe in seoul. and i really cannot remember seeing a girl wearing miniskirt in winter. but maybe that's just because i am from a small town in germany. anyway, here the girls seem to be obsessed by their skirts, and some really surprise (not to say: shock) me by the really short length of their skirts. well, as a man, i should't complain after all ... ;-)
but i wonder: why do so many girls wear them here? because THEY like them, because it is a TREND, or because they want to attract MEN? Or is it just the start of a REVOLUTION against traditional conservative values? Hmm.
To Aini: Come to Korea, and you'll have a wonderful winter time:)
To Flo: Good question. I think all the four reasons are true, especially the second one. I'm curious What your Korean friends told you about that. Shinchon is one of the most "fashionable" place in Seoul, so I guess the girls there can give you some more persuasive answers:)
It was not my intention to find answers of how and why korean girls dress themselves in winter. I posted this article about this ridiculous oldfashioned korean law.
Anyway, I like it how it is.
But thanks for all the curious visitors who came from your site. ;-)))
To sca: I know that your article was not about why Korean girls like wearing miniskirts in winter. And actually I didn't know that there was such a law -still recently!
But to tell the truth, it was really surprising to see that not a few foreigners were 'shocked' to see so many miniskirts in winter. I guess it's not only the reaction of German bloggers but also many other nationalities showed a similiar reaction. To me, and other Korean who live in Seoul, this trend is just natural as any other fashion trend. I was wondering whether we Korean have a rather odd sense of dressing or the winter in Korea is damn cold - much colder than in any other country (but this may not be true), or (just as Flo said) maybe in other countries, women do not wear short skirts in winter.
You know, usually Western people are less conservative and dress themselves just as they like, not thinking too much what the other people will say. Thus, according to this 'stereotype("Westerners are less conservative and very fashionable")', the reaction of some foreign bloggers about miniskirts in winter was not what I expected.
Song, it's only surprising for "real" westerners. In Eastern Europe it is quite the same like in Korea. I'm not shocked, but afraid that the poor miniskirt-wearing girls will get a bad bad cold.
But for certain reasons I will not discuss with them. ;-)
P.S. Could it be that wearing miniskirts is related to social status? Age? Ancestry? Educational level? For example, none of my female students at the german department is wearing miniskirts in winter. I don't regret this and don't complain for that, but my mind tells me there must be some logical explanaitions.
Miniskirts related to social status... That could be another interesting topic:)
According to my experience in my undergraduate days, girls majoring in languages tend to be more interested in fashion, makeup and so on. (You know that I'm here at HUFS, the 'Foreign language university'.) Unlike me and my other classmates who were some of the few female students in our department, girls from the foreign language departments or education department always looked so trendy and fashionable. In contrast to them, female students in the Social Science College or Law Collage usually were dressed unpretentiously. (But that has changed a lot during the last few years. Now my juniors are as fashionable and trendy as them.)
It is a bit surprising that female students in your department are not wearing miniskirts... Aren't you teaching at the Department of German language and literature? ^^
I'm not sure about that anymore. ;-)
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