Forget Dress Shopping. Go shopping for Jeans.

So I blogged earlier about the joys of dress shopping in Sanaa. The culture that asks its women to completely cover themselves when they go out in public has dresses here that i'm not sure even the most scandalous women in America would ever wear in the privacy of their own homes. Hilarious.

But perhaps not as hilarious as the array of jeans that are available. There is pretty much one style: Tight, stretchy, and covered with "flair," aka stitching and glitter and sequence. The jeans are often various bright colors. But the best part is that this is the lone style available for women AND men. If you would like to have a really good laugh, bring the men in your life to Yemen for a little jeans shopping. This is especially effective if the guys are big, because Yemeni guys are almost all very skinny and overall, by American standards, a little short. And I hear a rumor that a certain store down the street has some amazing man-jeans that are purple with white stitching and zippers up the sides.

I shall now desist from speaking.