Despite a sufficient number of well-known Canadian fashion designers, for example, Alfred Sung, Jason Wu or Patrick Cox, Canadians themselves do not pay much attention to their style, and fashion as such.
For decades, the standard (unofficial) national clothing has been a pair of jeans, a plaid shirt and wool socks. Everything is like in the pictures in the emigration advertisement, where a Canadian family is smiling, sitting on the veranda of a huge house with several cars in the garage, and overweight raccoons are languidly lying around. In this composition, the potential emigrant pays the least attention to clothes.
So when you go out on the street of an ordinary Canadian metropolis, reality looks like… I would describe this style of clothing as “multicultural chaos”. People dress randomly and in whatever. More precisely, it seems so at first glance.
To understand the whole “cimes” of Canadian fashion, you need to visit Guatemala, Honduras, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea and Haiti… and also do not forget about other countries starting with letters other than “G”. Or as a “baranofikus” to spend two years “within four walls”, with a smooth dive into a very long recession.
Then you will understand that khaki pants and military boots perfectly emphasize your pacifist nature. After all, inspiring times do not stop in Canada when you “want and can” dress beautifully!
In Canada, there is no traditional or national clothing as such, but… Just as the great leader Mao in communist China had his famous “French Mao” (Sunyatsenovka), so the Canadian proletariat red plaid shirt was and will be an identifier of national identity.
In winter, people really often wear these warm plaid shirts, certainly red. And both men and women, and 2SLGBTQ+. And outerwear: pukhans and hoodies. The height of fashion at the same time is to wear “flip-flops” on bare feet.
Of course, now this standard Canadian uniform is often worn by people all over the world, so now it’s not so easy to prove who is Canadian to whom in winter.
The only feature is winter knitted hats with a pompom. Nowhere are they more loved than in Canada.
Pompon. No one knows why it is needed, because the hat warms the head well enough. Moreover, it shifts the center of gravity and prevents skating and skiing, in a word, everything that many Canadians do 7-9 months a year.
But you couldn’t touch the pompom! Legend has it that if you cut it with scissors, then the cap will simply fall apart.
