I always wonder that kind of thing. I always wonder why display windows are so high fashion, or colourful, and yet my hometown inevitably is full of people that wear hoodies and jeans. There's nothing wrong with hoodies and jeans, not in the slightest! But there's a big fashion disconnect.

Interesting that it's the same in Finland.

Stranger still, perhaps, Japan is NOT like that--people really do wear what's in the windows. The range of fashion that women in Japan wear, and hell, even men, is so broad it's amazing to me. That influence all around me is why I wear skirts now, and tights, and heeled boots. In America, I'd feel ridiculously out of place.