When I came here last summer, I remember how surprised I was with some of the fashions. Since we hadn’t really been told otherwise, I expected rather similar styles, but there were several things that stuck out.
The summer time in Moldova is time to get a lot of manual work done, which means many men are outside working all day with construction of all sorts. The men tend to wear shorts and a wife-beater of some sort, if they wear a shirt at all. Most will go shirtless, even when they aren’t working. And if they are wearing a shirt, they tend to pull them up to expose their midriff in an attempt to stay cool. And for shoes, most wear sandals made of a plastic that seems similar to the plastic used in Crocs.
During the summer, many women wear sheer shirts. In America, these kinds of shirts would go over a tank top or they might be used as a beach cover. However, here in Moldova, the women wear them even in a professional environment. There is no problem with it. And it is acceptable for every kind of women of any age or size to wear them.
Along with the sheer shirts, women tend to wear short shirts or shorts. And they always wear incredibility tall high heels. I’m talking 4-5 inches easily. And they walk around in these shoes all day over all kinds of terrain very gracefully. I don’t know how these women do it. They must have no feeling in their feet. Every once in a while, I have worn my heels, which have a 2-inch heel, to school on special occasions, and I could barely walk on the uneven roads without twisting my ankle. I guess my feet weren’t made for Moldovan fashion.
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