Fashionistas

Everything you think about Russian fashion, forget it. We read and googled  any thing that might help us when we packed. Over and over we read the words  conservative and dark,  Nyet!!! Russian women are some of the nicest dressed women in the world, especially the younger generations. The majority  wear chic dresses, not low cut or hoochie- coo short lengths but something all mothers would love to see their daughters wear.  Most will wear  high heels but beautiful flats were also abundant. The stores in Moscow were filled with designer wear from all over the world. We could have been in NYC or Paris.  The babushkas,or grandmothers, wore stereotypical outfits from every old Russian film. A scarf over their hair tied in a knot under their chin or in a Heidi look,  medieval-patterned skirts down to their ankles  with leather flat shoes or sandals and a tucked in white shirt pulled tight by ample breasts. Maybe it is a throwback to Soviet days or there is a secret Putin decree that designates when a woman transforms from being stylish and attractive to a hunched over, church going elder.  I can't figure it out excerpt to say that the young Russian women are very attractive as a whole. Needless to say, Katherine and I packed all the wrong clothes. We perpetuate the stereotype of ugly American. Well, not Kath. She looks good in a potato sack.  But, as we are not going to send anyone a Christmas card, we just smile through our dark jeans and Tom Toms. I have however left all my shorts in my suitcase. Men only have one fashion rule. No white tennis shoes. I just hate them.