Fashion in Peru

 The Fashion style in Lima, Peru is much different than what you see in the United States. To see this, however, one must leave the tourist part of town and move to where you can find the locals of Lima.

            Two to three days before I left Lima, I went to gather supplies and made a present for my friends, but in all honesty, gathering the supplies was a journey for me to see what normal life looks like for locals and specifically how they dress. I saw many people in suits and very nice clothing and I saw people in construction uniforms doing their job. A common trend that I witnessed from the locals in Peru was that they were all dressed in their work uniform, and this is probably because I went on a Wednesday at about mid-day, but even then, you could not find one single person in sweatpants. This confused me a bit because Miraflores is supposed to be a tourist place, yet I felt like I was seeing various locals.

            After I had a conversation with my professor about this and he told me that Miraflores is a place where companies fly out their workers so that they may have important meetings etc. This explanation makes sense since the workers were all dressed in suits as if they were going to meetings. As for the people who weren’t dressed that way, it’s still common to dress decently nice when going out. This ideology, however, isn’t found in the United States, and I find this very fascinating.