Seattle's Clothing Style

People say clothing style helps you to express your personality or characteristics--this sounds pretty vague . . . Nowadays, not only women but men also spend much time expressing themselves by wearing nice looking outfits or wearing distinguishing apparel to show their uniqueness. Since each city has its own climate differences, local people in most cities in the States have different clothing styles, too. When it rains, Seattleites put on jackets with hoods instead of using umbrellas. When you walk around the streets in Seattle’s downtown area, you will see that people’s outfits are most likely divided into various branches. In Seattle, based on the author’s downtown observations, the clothing style is distinguished by three major categories.



- The Hippie Look:
The Hippie Look is observed mostly in the Broadway area of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which is geographically west of downtown actually, it's east of the waterfront . . .. When you walk along Pike Street and reach Broadway Avenue, you are then entering the right place: the middle of hippies and punks [rephrase slightly for grammar--you are not literally entering into the bodies of these people, but their domain, where they hang out]. The Hippie Look includes punk style, too. People with hippie outfits usually wear black colored leather or cotton jackets, skinny jeans that cover thighs and legs tightly, and boots. The overall color of the style is black or dark in tone. Besides the main clothing apparel, people who are in favor of the Hippie Look prefer wearing accessories, too. Sometimes they put on a belt with a big buckle, various custom made emblems, or metallic earrings, rings and a necklace to show their sparkling fashion taste.