Going out and wearing an overall. I would never had imagined that I will also be dressed up and with an overall for a party once in my life. But I did.
There is this very famous tradition in Finland to wear an overall to party. Students gets a patch every time when they attend a special party or event such as a pub crawl. You can also buy the patches in tourist office (headline is “kiss my Turku”), souvenir shops or student unions. You sewed the patch you got on the overall, so the more patches on the overall, the more parties you participated in, which is so cool.
Something unique about it is that every degree at university gets another color. Because of it you can always recognize that someone is studying by the color of the overall. Sometimes you also see a two-color overall. This is self-made fashion by couples. They are cutting their overall into half, exchange one half and stick it together again.
A really big benefit of wearing an overall when going out is that it keeps you warm during the cold Finnish winter. It is also waterproof which is very useful if someone’s drink spills out on you. Besides, the overall has huge pockets in which you easily place your bottle of vodka, wallet and other things.
I like this tradition very much and it makes me think that Finns are very creative.
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