What the f*uck are you wearing

Without knowing yet what we would get to see, we were strolling around Turku the first days we arrived...

At a certain point we bumped into some students. And this was the first time we saw it... The overalls. These students were dressed in overalls. Not normal overalls, but colorful overalls, full with patches.

You might be thinking "What kind of overalls are you talking about?", well the kind that my dad wore during working in the garden, or the blue or red ones that you wore as a kid (I was so jealous of the kids that did have one...). These overalls are kind of similar, but they come in all different kinds of colors and are full with patches.

During the next days we saw almost every student walking in these overalls and we really didn't knew what it was all about and what was going on...

Our introduction at school started and finally we got an explanation about the weird and funny looking overalls. Every study has its own color. When you attend an event you can get a patch, but you can also buy them yourself. The patches are showing what you like to do and by styling your overall how you want you can show your creative side.

Wearing the overalls is not only a thing in Turku, but students are wearing them throughout Finland. They wear them to school, to parties, basically all the time.

We immediately knew that we really wanted to get one. We got our hands on a yellow one, the one that presents the nurses. Our collection of patches is slowly growing and at the end of our stay here we have a great souvenir and memory of our time here in Finland.

Nähdään!

Aniek

P.S. I don't know what about you guys, but I think we look like a chicken in this outfit.....