Dress code mismatch

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It is interesting how differently people in the nearby town and in our village dress.

In the nearby town, women walk the streets practically naked. Shorts, so short that they do not cover the buttocks' bottom third, tank tops, super low cut at the back and front, high heels and make up. This seems to be the summer uniform for women from sixteen to thirty five (but I have to admit, it does get very hot here). Men, however are fully dressed: jeans, shirts and t-shirts; long shorts and tank tops are not common.

In the village it is kind of the opposite. Women are quite covered, they wear skirts, usually slightly below the knee and long or short sleeve tops. Men however are usually dressed only in shorts, nothing else is required. They are always shirtless and often barefoot. They spend all summer like this. Only one item of clothing is required except for special occasions.

If you paired women from the town with men from the village you would get almost naked couples. Village women and town boys would make fully dressed couples. But no, they prefer naked women and fully dressed men in the nearby town and naked men and fully dressed women in the village.

Comments

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

So this is the question of who seduces whom?

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I don't think so. I do not think that the men in the village do not wear much clothes to be seductive. They do it for practical reasons, it is cooler, easier to do physical work, reduces how much washing they have to do, etc.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

I understand. It was a joke. I just prefer to make jokes in an old-fashioned way, by words and style only, without smiling brackets and clawn's faces <I:o) I know that it's not recommended to make jokes in a non-native language, people might misunderstand you... But cannot stop myself ))))))))))

[topum.livejournal.com]

I also do not like to use smiley faces but at some point it became clear to me that it is not quite possible to do away with them completely when talking online.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

I understand...

Could I ask you something off topic? I saw Forbrydelsen series recently, and - there is something special about Danish production. Could you recommend several films or series that in your opinion are really good? (I mean made in Denmark)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I am the worst person for this. I do not watch TV almost at all and never have. Danish, Norwegian, British or other. My parents did not have a TV at home, we do not have one either. I have never even seen most of the cult movies everybody has seen. When people refer to something from say, Fight Club I do not have a clue. The same goes for TV shows, I have not seen even one full episode of "Friends".

Crime fiction and detective stories are the stuff I particularly do not get and have below zero interest in. The only time I watch movies is when I am part of a group and we head to IMAX and even then I prefer something dumb with a lot of special effects and I forget about it immediately after watching. I do not get movies as art at all. My attention span also does not allow for sitting in one place and watching at the screen for more than 15 minutes. I also rarely enjoy reading fiction these days.

Of course I have heard about Forbrydelsen and Sarah Lund (more than I wanted to), it became an international success and a big hit in Britain too (after Swedish "Wallander") but I have never watched any of it and unlikely to ever do so.

And I never watched any Danish TV series, not even the good old Matador! ) Now that you know that I am the worst person to ask, from what I have heard when it comes to TV series you might want to try Borgen and The Bridge. I have also heard people talking about about and praising Dem Som Dræber, 1864, Rejseholdet, Livvagterne, Ørnen, Anna Pihl. I have not watched any of them though.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Remarkable! My respect!

I don't have TV at home from 1990s, that's a monster I cannot imagine under the same roof with me. But I use internet for news, e-books and movies. Through torrents or other forms of piracy.

I think, I would do the same as you, only my job is almost all freelance, at home, plus a bit of sociopathy, so I see very little of homo sapiens. (averagely, 1-2 persons a day, without counting shops and streets.)

So movies are my form of recompensing the lack of society and travels. I really love British production - just as art. Films after Shakespeare or Dickens can be really good sometimes. And even detective stories (the good ones) are built on shakespearian model: some event blows up the surffuce of normal life , and then it's continuing as just another Sh.'s tragedy. And I love the language very much. I speak and write English a lot (with my private pupils), but I am in a Spanish country, so I need to feed myself with English talks...

Scandinavian experience was just of curiosity. I know little about this world. I know Sweden as one of the best cinema countries of Europe (rather by Bergman than that Wallander, that I couldn't continue). But nothing about Denmark. Some of the films you mentioned, I tried to see them, but it was rubbish, honestly. When I asked, I meant, maybe there is something of art quality, I'm not a fan of "cult" things. But never mind, I see that it's not your cup of tea...

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I cannot live without being connected to the world and people around me. I need it every day but I also need time alone every day.

I gave you the names of TV series because The Killing that you mentioned is a crime TV series. Here are the movies off the top of my head (including Norwegian): Ved Verdens Ende, Idioterne (Idiots), Dancer in the Dark (this one I actually watched with someone, you have probably heard of Lars von Trier's stuff anyway), King of Devil's Island, The Hunt, Oslo August 31st, Troll Hunter, After the Wedding, Breaking the Waves (LvT's again I think), Pusher (I think it is a series). Have no clue how good they are.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much, I do appreciate your effort to deepen into that stuff. I'll try to watch it. From your list I saw only von Trier's Dancer in the Dark.

Yes, I understand that you are the man of the world, otherwise you wouldn't be able to live this sort of life (I respect it 100%, it just didn't happen to become my style, for various reasons).

Funnily, my sociopathy is not total, it concerns rather the people of the circle that supposed to be mine (art, education), but I just don't like it. I prefer so-called simple people. I've lived several years at the ocean, and I liked the company of costarican fishermen from the neighbouring village more than my colleagues' community.