Hi everybody and welcome back to my channel! Today's video is going to be about
fashion and especially about the differences between how teenagers dress
in the USA against how teenagers dress in Italy. I'm talking about what I see in my
school and the area where I live. I live in Virginia and of course here the
weather is different than in Southern California. First of all, before I came
here a lot of people warned me that I needed to be careful on how I dressed
for school because if I dressed up too much people would just look at me
because no one really dresses up for school and actually people go there in
pajama and sweat pants, and sweatshirts. I have to say that there's like a mix:
some people really wear pajamas to school, other people wear sweat pants and
sweatshirts and don't really care about what you're wearing but also other
people dress up. Girls wear nice dresses and skirts and at the same time
the same girls that maybe one day dress up the next day they'll just wear
sweat pants too. The thing is that no one cares. You can have your own style, I think,
and people won't really look at you and won't really care, so you can
express more yourself. Instead in Italy there are such strict rules. If you
want to be cool or at least not be judged, if you are not wearing what
everyone else is wearing and what's the trend in that moment then people will
just look at you. And at the same time there's not a wide range of clothes you
can wear for school. In Italy you don't wear pajamas to go to school, but
you don't even wear sweatpants. Maybe in some cases but not usually. And the same time
you cannot even dress up too much because otherwise that would be like too
much and that's what you would wear for parties and for other occasions.
And so there's like this limited range of clothes that you can wear which are
nice but at the same time not too much. There's this rule that you can't wear
some kind of shoes. For example there's a huge hate against flats for girls and
against sandals. So no one wears sandals, like maybe when you are
on vacation and you go to the beach. Some people even wear sneakers when they are at the
beach and then change into flip-flops right when they go on the sand.
Here instead in the USA, well, girls can wear flats, too, and a lot of people wear
sandals. Probably the most popular type of sandals that people wear is
Birkenstock, and they wear them with socks underneath so they can wear them
even in winter. And those socks can be of whatever color, size, and fantasy you want.
So they can even be like fuzzy socks or like Christmas socks. Also about shoes,
for boots are very popular Dr. Martens, so the high ones or also the
lower ones that just reach your ankle. I know they have Dr.Martens
here but they're not as popular as in Italy. Here instead many teenagers wear
bean boots. When it rains some people in the USA wear rain boots
and sometimes girls... they wear this really nice dress and then under it
they have rain boots, so they don't have any problems. Instead in Italy, since you
want to look cool, even if there's a storm and it's pouring you won't wear
rain boots to go to school, because rain boots are not cool. So you need to
wear your Vans or Converse and get your feet soaked because otherwise you'll be judged.
Many people say that Italian fashion
goes by season and I guess that's right because if it's winter you will wear a
coat so no matter what's the temperature outside, usually, you will
still bring your coat with you and put it on, and use a scarf... and so even if one
day it's a little warmer you will still wear your coat, probably. Here instead,
probably mostly because in Virginia the weather is crazy, so one day it could be 80
degrees and the next day it could be 20. It happened
this year, in February, there were a few days with 80 degrees, and so I was
still wearing jeans and a long sleeve T-shirt but people, since it was 80 degrees,
even if it was the middle of February, in the middle of winter, they just showed up
to school with sandals, shorts, and t-shirts. So it's like
as soon as you see the sun you just change. Also, probably since people here use the
car a lot, they don't cover themselves as much. Here I've probably worn my coat
like 10 times and that's because you will probably need it for that half a minute to
go from the door of the house to the car, and then from the car to the
place where you're going, for example from the car to school. And so why would you
need a coat for just like 20 seconds? When I go to school, even if it's cold in
the morning and I have to wait for the bus for 2 minutes, I will just freeze
myself to death and then go to school, other than just carrying my coat around
all day. Because in Italy, since we don't change the classroom, we have hangers in
the classroom where we can leave our coats, here instead you don't and so you
have to carry your coat around all day long. Here a lot of people wear sport
clothes just for going to school or for going out. So they can wear their
sneakers, Nike shorts, Nike tank tops... Instead in Italy if you want to wear
sport clothes you usually wear them if you are actually doing some sport, or
you're at the gym, or something... You don't usually wear them to go to school. Also, here
often girls wear bralettes, they're very popular. Another brand that here I see a
lot it's Patagonia. They have quite expensive clothes, especially for winter
like sweaters. Something that I think it's really clever and practical it's
spandex. So... before coming here I didn't know what spandex were and I had never
used them. Spandex are basically these shorts that you can wear underneath
other clothes because they fit you so well that people won't notice you are
actually wearing them. And here girls wear spandex under skirts and dresses so
even if something happens and for example your dress comes up,
people want see your underwear because you're wearing spandex. I know that many
people think that Italian boys dress really nicely and I guess that can be
true because in America if a boy doesn't care about what he's wearing, he'll
just put on some random clothes, maybe like, sweatpants and a random
sweatshirt or t-shirt. And that can happen in Italy too, but at the same time
they look nicer. They will probably not wear
sweatpants but jeans and a nice t-shirt. Most of the boys in Italy
probably want to look nice and actually care about their appearance, even if they
don't want to show it. Both in Italy and in the USA, highschoolers wear their school
sweatshirt or t-shirt, but here it's more popular and more common. And that's because
the school spirit is way higher and people actually care about their school,
and there's like rivalry between schools and everything... The difference is that
here, of course, seniors wear their university clothes too.
So for example, once they get accepted into University, they usually buy a lot of
clothes from the University, saying the name of
the university, that they can wear to school so other people will know, but also
because so they can wear of course those clothes when they actually are in college.
When Americans want they can be really formal and for example for prom, girls
wear long maxi dresses and high heels and boys wear suits. And I think that in
ltaly there are not as many occasions to dress that nicely and that formal because we
don't have prom and even school parties are completely different and are
not so formal, but we go to the club. We can wear high heels but we usually
wear short dresses or shorts. Well, this is everything for today! I hope you
enjoyed the video, if you did leave a thumb up! I'm sure I've not said
everything I could, like, there are a lot of more things that I could have talked
about about fashion. Leave a comment below telling me if you agree, or if you
have other questions, or about something that I probably forgot to say and so see
you next video!
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