Romanian fashion is always bright, brash and makes you smile!

Romanian fashion in Bucharest rotates all around colours - never the same colour and never a colour that will coordinate with any previous seasons colours. For example last year the colour was orange - a really bright, lost at sea, emergency life belt orange. The year before that it was bright red. This year it is purple - so of course is completely different to orange.

For the first few years I was lulled in my belief that if I let my new wife build her clothes collection up - using the finest fabric and best makes - they would last her for years to come. This dream was followed by the following years announcement that she was missing a certain colored bag - so needed one .. A time goes on - she looked back through her collection ad offered away clothes - including jewellery I had bought her - she reclaimed this when I complained to make space for the new seasons colours. So Romanian fashion shopping for women involves lots of shopping. Fortunately she loves shopping so is happy.

Romanian fashion could be the same for men and I am not seeing it but I doubt it. Irina also does all my shopping - so I have cupboards stacked full of new shirts and t-shirts and by watching my weight, I still fit into the trousers I bought 8 years ago.

If you live in Romania you will find super cheap tailors everywhere. On your arrival you could drop off all the clothes which need adapting - have a nice two weeks here and then pick them up on the way to the airport. My sister had all her medical work clothes made like this. This means as my clothes wear out - they get repaired.

Dry cleaning here is also super cheap - so at the end of the season - they all get cleaned and packed away into the cellar.

Romanian fashion in the countryside is much more my thing. Granny still uses an anorak I was given 20 years ago by a good friend. Her change in dress may, if you are lucky, extend as far as a new headscarf in the Spring, Grandpa, my ultimate swearing and cursing, fashion role model does not change a thing - apart from 1 new shirt each Christmas and birthday by his daughter.

There is a clothes chain in our family - I get a nice jumper. I am tall with long arms so this in itself is a challenge. It is washed and shrinks down to my father-in-laws dimensions. After a while it becomes worn out and unsuitable for Bucharest society and so moves to the countryside.

I love my fashionable countryside attire. I have peasant shirts - which no one else would wear. I have tracksuits so I can walk the dogs (dog hair is another unspoken fear in the family and so I need special clothes for going out with the dog). I have so many almost new t-shirts, consigned to the countryside for almost invisible (unless you are Romanian) food spots.

My countryside footwear is a beaten up pair of sandals - which of course saw better their better days in Bucharest and the biggest, fluffiest sheep skin slippers for when I am in the house and typing in the generally unheated backroom of the little countryside home.

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