Israeli Fashion

Yeah I want to focus on something entirely different today: fashion.

Israeli fashion is boring. There, I said it. Why?

Well today I was in Tel Aviv on Nahalat Binyamin street. I thought I'd be looking at what people were wearing but I didn't really end up doing that because nothing caught my eye. Most people were wearing black or white t-shirts with neutral shorts. Some people had jeans. Really nothing exciting at all.

And it's such a shame! Yesterday I saw a video by Justine Leconte (a French youtuber and fashion designer) where she listed some French fashion rules and encouraged people to write their own local rules in the comments - things like "no white after labor day," or "belt and shoes must match." So I thought, what are Israeli rules? We're such a diverse society that there are very few rules - Etheopian women wear embroidered white dresses, Moroccans amd Yemenis wear bright vibrant colors on special occasions, Haredim wear long black coats and fur hats, Druze wear those pants with a dropped crotch, religious women wear colorful headscarves... Really you can get away with anything. Except a baseball hat, those are clearly American.

But then I thought, we could use some rules, you know? Not like a fashion police, but like common sense, I guess? I'll start:

Do not wear black in the Tel Aviv summer.