Clothing+Style


 * 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.

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- **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.

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- **The Athletic Look**: Among young adults and teenagers, the Athletic Look is popular in Seattle. The age [group wearing this style] ranges from young teenagers to college students. People with athletic outfits usually wear comfortable looking hooded shirts, loose training pants, and tennis shoes. In the hooded shirts, as known as “hoodies,” people try to show people their association or interests. For example, in the University area many students wear hoodies that have University of Washington or Huskies written [on them]. Not only the college students but even high school students who desire to attend a particular college wear hoodies that have a school name or school representing marks. The most famous brands for the athletic look are Adidas, Nike, Puma, Champs, and Reebok.

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- **The Gore-Tex Look**: The most popular outfit in the Seattle area is the so-called "Gore-Tex" style. People with the Gore-Tex Look seem as if they are ready to go up to the mountains for hiking. This style is popular among the NWS faculty. On the top, they wear a Gore-Tex jacket with a water proofing function and hoods on the back, [while on the bottom--or say something like that--]comfortable looking cotton pants or jeans with different colors, and hiker's shoes. The shoes have spikes on the [soles]surface that work well on both hills and wet streets. The reason why this style is so popular is because of the climate system in the city, and the function of the style works perfectly well. Many faculty members in the NWS ride bicycles on the way to school and back to home. Wearing the Gore-Tex look not only prevents them from getting wet, but works fine riding bicycles when returning home or going to work.

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"Seattle means never having to dress nicely to go anywhere." - Zach Liao, 12th Grade
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