TW pop culture LOVES Lady Gaga. And, I mean lovelovelove. I hear "rah-ah-ah-ah-ah-roma-gaga-ooh-la-la" every day walking along Roosevelt Rd. In the clubs, Lady Gaga will be played 4 times within one hour. And even uglier, some people even dress similar to her on a given day. I suppose they aren't sick of her... yet.
Speaking of fashion...some people are really stylish and some just try too hard. I rarely ever see the girls wearing sweats in public. I have seen the oddest clothes. Yesterday I saw a guy wearing baggy jeans, and on the jeans were iron patches of cartoon sneakers. I must say that the majority of clothes I find in stores here that are made in Taiwan are absolutely unflattering, too. Tops are have stitches in the most random places that I would look like I'm hiding a baby.
Oh, and the most absolutely ridiculous and puzzling trend are the glasses without lenses. Why why why!! I tried on a pair a couple days ago and cracked up...my friend told me that I, then, looked "really Taiwanese". It is the leading and universal trend among the teenagers here. Not cute.
Complete the look with blue contacts :D and your lenseless glasses
ReplyDeleteer.. glasses without lens? i didnt notice anyone wearing them when i was in tw two or three weeks ago, or maybe i didnt look close enough... but wow that's bad man
ReplyDeletehaha, yeah sometimes i can't tell unless i get a little closer. but they are ridiculous, usually they are bigger frames and black-rimmed. you will definitely see them if you come to taipei!
ReplyDeleteyea i did see them on the streets, these rather large black frames, just didnt realise that some of them were without a lens. and yea i do also find them not great looking, but i guess that's just what keeping up with whats "in" is all about, u need just one celebrity to do it to turn something stupid into not-so-stupid.
ReplyDeleteOn Lady Gaga: I noticed this when I went to a KTV here in Houston, TX with my Taiwanese girlfriend and her friends. Of course, they had me, the white guy, singing "Poker Face." It was a strange experience.
ReplyDeleteAnd on glasses: a few months ago, my high school students were doing that. They seem to have stopped,though. I'll be teaching in August, so I'll have to see if I see it in Hsinchu myself.
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