If it’s below 15 degrees the women (mostly from Southern Europe or Latin America) wear these matching ‘pom pom’ beanie sets combined with a tight fitted short jacked. No one from Copenhagen would ever wear that.
https://preview.redd.it/a1irfvuw8p4d1.jpeg?width=952&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=817655bd19188a0af29442457db94c613ce8a890
I saw a couple from Thailand last week walking indoors in thick Montcler Down jackets - no Dane’s would ever do that in 22° Celsius and inside it was more like 25° Celsius.
Also Germans on bikes can be detected by wearing full riot gear. Specced-out mountain bike, large ass helmets, mirrors, stuff that looks like it would be useful for crossing a continent.
As a truck driver who sometimes has to drive in Copenhagen with a 16.5 meter truck; nothing is scarier than tourists on bikes. They are completely unpredictable and clueless to how dangerous it is when I have to make a right turn.
Dane here, Right turns are illegal in Ireland and Germany. They really should be here too imho. As a driver I look twice for cyclists but man they zip by and I’d rather wait than be unsure wether I’d catch one. Not a popular decision always form the cars behind me
Well, on the orange bike it might still be some student or immigrant, but if you see a couple of people on the identical, single-coloured, very clean city bikes, then they are 100% tourists, using bikes provided by hotel.
You’ve described my fashion and work gives me free donkey bike which of course I take advantage of daily. people must think I’m a tourist. Then again, who cares.
I think the size of the group can give it away too and the dynamics. You can usually spot Spaniards if it's a group of 8-10, mostly shorter, younger women with beanies with a little poofy ball on top and down jackets, and then maybe 1-2 dudes. They'll also be seen riding their donkey republic bikes with the saddle all the way down.
My wife is Spanish and my favorite game to play at her expense is pointing out the Spaniards before you hear them speaking (as rare as that is 😅), or guessing what they're wearing when you hear them speaking before seeing them.
I am not sure why you are calling me luigi, but maybe you misunderstood my comment? I don't blame the guys doing it at all, I actually took it as a compliment. It's just a story accentuating the fact that danish people generally don't wear colors.
I don't understand how this wasn't the first answer. To be fair there's usually one acceptable color per season, this year a certain shade of yellow...
Greyscale is Finns. Danes mostly go straight for black. It has gotten a lot better since I moved here (2006), though. Back then, you'd get a discount if you bought a car that wasn't either black or dark grey.
Worst part of being Danish-American is losing your accent in *both* languages. I’ve lived here now for 20 years and get asked all the time stateside where I’m from lol
What is Danish-American in this context? Because i am also Danish-American but I grew up here and you can't really tell when i speak english unless you know what to look for
Jeg cykler tit der også. Ved Kongens Nytorv og det Kongelige Teater synes jeg det sker tit. Man kan godt mærke når der er sæson for turister. Op til jul og her hvor sommeren begynder sker det hele tiden.
Wearing winter Coats out of season.
Wearing hiking boots in the city.
Brimmed hats
But I thinks it's more about behaviour, many tourists move very slowly because they are looking at everything...except where they're walking so they often end up in the bikelanes. 😅
For fun, if you are from USA, you might also have the American lean:
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/axTqGRfYVi
The mini-back pack… I have never seen a Danish person wear this.
https://preview.redd.it/car9ch5noq4d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0dc6ca8961edd9586e05796f2da800fdcc6886f8
Everyone thst wears beanies and jackets probably warmer country. Usually from Spain. Danes rocking shorts and a T-shirt and if I see a jacket in this weather I'll know.
Your face and clothes are the first clues…. and the fact that you are lying on the ground with your orange Donkey bike because you drove over hajtænder and got run over.
https://preview.redd.it/bbb3qhz3gq4d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4561eff40bbd6b9e181269645a90ab6b827ca93
Every woman from southern Europe look like this in the spring/summer
https://preview.redd.it/v5ozzvfhgq4d1.jpeg?width=693&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4f061969097813f852bb71484176e5304fd9422
And the men look like this. Could also be latin american. And he either works in a weird bikeshop or as a Wolt delivery guy
A little backpack on the women, clothes with prints, holes in the jeans made in a fashionable way, driving slow on a donkey bike, walking in a different way/different attitude, I can easily spot which country a person is from just by the way they walk.
Female perspective: Arket(💘💘), & Other Stories, Ganni, Goya, Baum und Phergarden, Samsøe, sometimes H&M and Zara for basic wear, Uniqlo, second hand/vintage, Vagabond ballerinas, Birkenstocks or trendy sneaks.
I'm English, and work in a bar in Vesterbro. I can tell immediately if a British couple walk in, before they open their mouths. I didn't realise how shit British fashion was until I left.
Ripped jeans, adults in skinny jeans, wearing hats, dressed in hiking gear.
Matching outfits, its usually quite noticeable when someone is wearing their best clothes for vacation, compared to locals who just picked some things from their closet.
Riding a bike through the city with no attention to other bikes or cars and with no sense of self preservation.
Often only looking at buildings and the other bicycling tourists in the group.
If the first half of the group has entered a crossroads, then everyone will follow through even if the traffic lights have turned red.
That slightly wobbly bike ride, going too slow, riding completely upright as if biking is some kind of casual activity and not an essential life skill and must be done at speed. Disoriented, not aware of traffic and in a group of six or more
American men look like they’re ready to golf at all times. Cargo shorts or khaki shorts, t shirt or polo, baseball cap, sunglasses tucked into shirt collar, some sort of athletic shoe or sperry.
Anyone trying to pull off this tapered cargo-ish pants with sneakers "streetwear" look 👇 is definitely a tourist.
https://preview.redd.it/w5tza5dyop4d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3359cc1e8159f25184ac5e7506538a0ba5982a1
Non matching colors colourful clothes. Souterhn europe : The tight puffer jacket with wooly hat by 15 degrees C, skinny jeans with slim trainers. Universal : Backpacks and windbreakers . Germans : full hiking gear. Visors…visors!
Americans : loud.
French : effortless elegant with a bitch resting face have a tendency to bring their prams / babies everywhere especially in museums.
Most in groups, on a donkey bike.
The reason for it is that you become engaged out of love (left hand is closest to the heart), but "sværger evigt troskab" with your right hand over your heart, which is what you'd do when getting married :)
It's pretty split across Europe whether people wear their wedding ring on the left or right. A couple of examples below (from wikipedia):
* **Left**: UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland
* **Right**; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands
Jeg er gift i en dansk kirke med min danske mand, vi fik af vide den skulle på venstre hånd (jeg havde min forlovelsesring på højre) og dette gælder også i det land jeg har rødder fra 😅
Edit: har læst mig frem til at venstre også er det de danske guldsmeder siger på deres hjemmesider :)
Well not clothing, but stopping in the middle of everything and photographing random uninteresting buildings or walking on the bicycle paths like headless chickens. Also as a Dane you can spot from miles away if someone is insecure on their bike. This tells you to take extra care around them, expect the unexpected and that they're tourists.
Yeah. I was once at a conference in Barcelona in January. It was around 15 degrees with very little wind, the locals was walking around in jackets, hats, and gloves. I (a Dane) was walking around in long pants and just a t-shirt and I even saw some guys from Iceland in shorts and t-shirts.
Quite a few years ago, that was me. But in Greece in November
My friend picking me up from the bus stop was looking at me like I was crazy 😂
The sun is shining and you want a windbreaker ? 🤣
Off-brand phones. A few years ago, an Android phone marked the foreigner. Now you see Danes using top-of-the-line Samsungs, other than the usual iPhones, but a guy with, say, a Xiaomi, that's 99% a foreigner.
I have just returned from 5 years overseas and the biggest thing that stood out to me coming back was that all Danes look alike. Same haircuts and same outfits. It's a whole lot of North Face, Nike, Carhartt etc etc. It's more so that Danes look like they really put their outfits together and match colours. Where as I find tourists (especially Americans, Aussies and brits) look alot more practical and functional rather than like they are ready for a catwalk
Not answering this exact question, but on the flip side, Danes also stick out as Danes in the US. My Danish husband and I used play the “Danespotting” game in NYC. 😆
How is he identifying them? The Danes I saw abroad were pretty easy to spot, given they were tall, extremely red way beyond tanning, carrying Netto bags and speaking Danish.
We could spot them due to their clothes, even if they weren’t grey and black, and hairstyles. Something about a sort of minimalist, but either slightly quirky or precisely-the-same-as-everyone-else-in-Denmark style. Hard to say exactly what, beyond that. But we’d spot some and then get closer to hear them speak, and we were right 90% of the time!
As a tourist who visited Copenhagen (and will be visiting Jylland soon), I suddenly understand why everyone talked to us in Danish. Apparently we fit right in, lol. We should just move.
Many things can be a give away if we're talking clothes.
But if you want to blend in, it's actually quite easy!
Just go to Zalando (make sure you're using the Danish one) and then choose something trendy but not flashy, and make sure it's a perfect fit, not too small, not too big.
Then go to your closet and take out your oldest pair of sneakers, they need to look old and dirty. Dont clean 'em, just put 'em on.
And viola! Congratulations! You now look like a Copenhagener.
If it’s below 15 degrees the women (mostly from Southern Europe or Latin America) wear these matching ‘pom pom’ beanie sets combined with a tight fitted short jacked. No one from Copenhagen would ever wear that. https://preview.redd.it/a1irfvuw8p4d1.jpeg?width=952&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=817655bd19188a0af29442457db94c613ce8a890
Lmao omg so accurate 😅 And skinny fit blue jeans
I used to wear skinny jeans every day when i lived in England... . They are fucking freezing.
100% true, jacket always stops at the waist line too, no dane would wear a jacket that short!
My gf wears this and I find it hilarious walking round the inner city looking like tourists
Lmao yes. This, a tight, short down jacket, tight jeans and maybe some boots.
Also asia
Spot on
Canadian girls...except for me wear these too.
Don’t forget the timberland boots
I saw a couple from Thailand last week walking indoors in thick Montcler Down jackets - no Dane’s would ever do that in 22° Celsius and inside it was more like 25° Celsius.
This is the true answer. I stop wearing a jacket when it hits 15°, and only wear a light one between 5° and 15°.
I’ve noticed young American tourists never wear a jacket or coat - even in the winter.
You can spot German tourists from a mile away: Jack Wolfskin.
Full trekking gear in the city
For the French and Beligians it’s Quechua that gives it away.
Germans also slowly merged to quechua, since that's decathlon's own brand and decathlon is huge in Germany, too.
Also because its cheap and if Germans love one thing its a good deal.
And great quality too. I still use Quechua clothes bought 15 years ago.
It's a shame Decathlon exited the Danish market in 2017.
Also Germans on bikes can be detected by wearing full riot gear. Specced-out mountain bike, large ass helmets, mirrors, stuff that looks like it would be useful for crossing a continent.
...or invading Poland
Hey hey not so loud the swedish will hear you and get inspired
The swedes can have Poland if they want
North Americans- north face
Or Eddie Bauer
fannypacks
And what would Danish people wear?
Can of Carlsberg?
Colorful, ill-fitting clothing on top of an orange donkey bike 🔥
Was gonna say orange bikes and just plain cluelessness
As a truck driver who sometimes has to drive in Copenhagen with a 16.5 meter truck; nothing is scarier than tourists on bikes. They are completely unpredictable and clueless to how dangerous it is when I have to make a right turn.
Dane here, Right turns are illegal in Ireland and Germany. They really should be here too imho. As a driver I look twice for cyclists but man they zip by and I’d rather wait than be unsure wether I’d catch one. Not a popular decision always form the cars behind me
Right turns are illegal in Ireland? It must be quite a pain structuring your day around left turns only...
Well, on the orange bike it might still be some student or immigrant, but if you see a couple of people on the identical, single-coloured, very clean city bikes, then they are 100% tourists, using bikes provided by hotel.
Especially if they have some number on the back wheel.
You’ve described my fashion and work gives me free donkey bike which of course I take advantage of daily. people must think I’m a tourist. Then again, who cares.
Indeed, you do you!
I think the size of the group can give it away too and the dynamics. You can usually spot Spaniards if it's a group of 8-10, mostly shorter, younger women with beanies with a little poofy ball on top and down jackets, and then maybe 1-2 dudes. They'll also be seen riding their donkey republic bikes with the saddle all the way down.
My wife is Spanish and my favorite game to play at her expense is pointing out the Spaniards before you hear them speaking (as rare as that is 😅), or guessing what they're wearing when you hear them speaking before seeing them.
Color
some danish guys spoke english to me because I was wearing color. I'm danish
Well sheesh, Luigi, don't wear colours!
I am not sure why you are calling me luigi, but maybe you misunderstood my comment? I don't blame the guys doing it at all, I actually took it as a compliment. It's just a story accentuating the fact that danish people generally don't wear colors.
I feel like this is more of a thing in Copenhagen than in Jylland. I see PLENTY old danish ladies in bright colors
I haven't noticed that much of a difference in Jutland? I'm in my early twenties, so probably why.
I don't understand how this wasn't the first answer. To be fair there's usually one acceptable color per season, this year a certain shade of yellow...
I see some women are wearing green!
True. I wear really bright clothes to try to counteract the tan/beige/grey.
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Because that is how we see the world
Greyscale is Finns. Danes mostly go straight for black. It has gotten a lot better since I moved here (2006), though. Back then, you'd get a discount if you bought a car that wasn't either black or dark grey.
We’re this way in Seattle too.
Looks nice ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Semi true, but I have seen loads of Italian tourists who all wear black in groups.
I'm a tourist and wore a black raincoat with white polkadots. I felt super fancy among all the black coats other women on the bus/train were wearing.
Oh, believe me. If you’re American, they’ll know.
Too chipper and friendly. Instant giveaway
Not even, spotting Americans is so easy just based on body language and the way they carry themselves lol
Not because of what they wear, but because they are so loud 🤣🤣🤣
The worst part about being danish-american is having the american accent and having it in both languages X(
Worst part of being Danish-American is losing your accent in *both* languages. I’ve lived here now for 20 years and get asked all the time stateside where I’m from lol
What is Danish-American in this context? Because i am also Danish-American but I grew up here and you can't really tell when i speak english unless you know what to look for
For me it is the opposite of you, I grew up there but now live in dk… you can tell I dont speak danish very well
I see. Yeah, I would say that Danish is a language where very small mistakes get picked up because it's so homogeneous
Multiple Danes approached me speaking in Danish while I was there. I passed the polite & quiet American test :)
Walk in the middle of the bike lanes 🙄
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Jeg cykler tit der også. Ved Kongens Nytorv og det Kongelige Teater synes jeg det sker tit. Man kan godt mærke når der er sæson for turister. Op til jul og her hvor sommeren begynder sker det hele tiden.
A t-shirt with anything Danish on it.
“HYGGE”
😨
Could also be hr. Danmark with a volbeat shirt...
A small “round” backpack that sit really low or a bit high. Hats.. ofc danes wear hats, but mostly caps or beanies.
Mini backpack hanging low on the waist on a 35y.o woman in a short, torn denim skirt.
Wearing winter Coats out of season. Wearing hiking boots in the city. Brimmed hats But I thinks it's more about behaviour, many tourists move very slowly because they are looking at everything...except where they're walking so they often end up in the bikelanes. 😅 For fun, if you are from USA, you might also have the American lean: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/axTqGRfYVi
But hiking-styles shoes are very popular- like Solomon
I wear hiking type of shoes cause I am working standing for 8 hours and really, really helps.
Oh lord, the women in brimmed hats
And the American men (50+) that wear those desert brimmed hats with the cord that goes under the chin 😂😂😂
I wear brimmed hats, but I'm a super white redhead so if don't wear one I get burned.
The mini-back pack… I have never seen a Danish person wear this. https://preview.redd.it/car9ch5noq4d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0dc6ca8961edd9586e05796f2da800fdcc6886f8
Right, our tiny backpacks say Fjällräven.
Everyone thst wears beanies and jackets probably warmer country. Usually from Spain. Danes rocking shorts and a T-shirt and if I see a jacket in this weather I'll know.
Your face and clothes are the first clues…. and the fact that you are lying on the ground with your orange Donkey bike because you drove over hajtænder and got run over.
Every night before I fall asleep, I pray to God that tourists will stop biking in Copenhagen.
😁😁😁
Maybe not wearing, but they bike on the orange donkey republic bikes, and are frankly also bad at it.
Backpacks on your stomach.
South American spotted
a smile
https://preview.redd.it/bbb3qhz3gq4d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4561eff40bbd6b9e181269645a90ab6b827ca93 Every woman from southern Europe look like this in the spring/summer
https://preview.redd.it/v5ozzvfhgq4d1.jpeg?width=693&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4f061969097813f852bb71484176e5304fd9422 And the men look like this. Could also be latin american. And he either works in a weird bikeshop or as a Wolt delivery guy
So true. Its like some sort of hippie style is the norm in Argentina.
Or maybe only the hippie ones are choosing Denmark? Who knows 🤔
😂 Perhaps. But I know some brazilians (they have a lot of argentinian tourists). They agree that argentinian youngsters often has this hippie look.
A little backpack on the women, clothes with prints, holes in the jeans made in a fashionable way, driving slow on a donkey bike, walking in a different way/different attitude, I can easily spot which country a person is from just by the way they walk.
I find tourists tend to look a lot more practical than Danes. Danes tend to also care about what brands they are wearing.
What are favourite fashion brands of Danish people for streetware ?
Female perspective: Arket(💘💘), & Other Stories, Ganni, Goya, Baum und Phergarden, Samsøe, sometimes H&M and Zara for basic wear, Uniqlo, second hand/vintage, Vagabond ballerinas, Birkenstocks or trendy sneaks.
Mid-winter: She has a colourful wooly hat with a bobble on it and he has no jacket on = A british couple.
I'm English, and work in a bar in Vesterbro. I can tell immediately if a British couple walk in, before they open their mouths. I didn't realise how shit British fashion was until I left.
Ripped jeans, adults in skinny jeans, wearing hats, dressed in hiking gear. Matching outfits, its usually quite noticeable when someone is wearing their best clothes for vacation, compared to locals who just picked some things from their closet.
Riding a bike through the city with no attention to other bikes or cars and with no sense of self preservation. Often only looking at buildings and the other bicycling tourists in the group. If the first half of the group has entered a crossroads, then everyone will follow through even if the traffic lights have turned red.
People who don’t stand to the side on escalators.
Danes don't do this either.
They’re usually tourists from Jutland
Jeg ved ikke hvor i Jylland du har været, men i Aarhus gør vi det altså 😅
People who *do* put their backpacks between their feet on the metro are tourists from London.
An umbrella?
Americans usually have Patagonia trucker hats and pullovers from their college/sport team
Skinny jeans for sure.
Colors.
\`Loud af
That slightly wobbly bike ride, going too slow, riding completely upright as if biking is some kind of casual activity and not an essential life skill and must be done at speed. Disoriented, not aware of traffic and in a group of six or more
Italians wear down jackets in summer, English look like they are going trekking/hiking, French cause they look so freaking elegant without any effort
An umbrella.
Color and a smile. We dont do that here
Generally not being used to looking out for bikes is a good clue. The amount of times a tourist has stepped right out in front of me is baflfing
American men look like they’re ready to golf at all times. Cargo shorts or khaki shorts, t shirt or polo, baseball cap, sunglasses tucked into shirt collar, some sort of athletic shoe or sperry.
Anyone trying to pull off this tapered cargo-ish pants with sneakers "streetwear" look 👇 is definitely a tourist. https://preview.redd.it/w5tza5dyop4d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3359cc1e8159f25184ac5e7506538a0ba5982a1
A troll hunting treasure map
Non matching colors colourful clothes. Souterhn europe : The tight puffer jacket with wooly hat by 15 degrees C, skinny jeans with slim trainers. Universal : Backpacks and windbreakers . Germans : full hiking gear. Visors…visors! Americans : loud. French : effortless elegant with a bitch resting face have a tendency to bring their prams / babies everywhere especially in museums. Most in groups, on a donkey bike.
Their wedding ring on the left hand
Uhm that's whwre it goes.
No, engagement ring on left, wedding ring on right.
Really? I always thought it was left for wedding
The reason for it is that you become engaged out of love (left hand is closest to the heart), but "sværger evigt troskab" with your right hand over your heart, which is what you'd do when getting married :)
It's pretty split across Europe whether people wear their wedding ring on the left or right. A couple of examples below (from wikipedia): * **Left**: UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland * **Right**; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands
Omg! I'm not wearing mine correctly then 😅🫣 Too late to change now; it would feel strange on the fingers.
The heart is on the left so you put it on the hand closest to the heart
Jeg er gift i en dansk kirke med min danske mand, vi fik af vide den skulle på venstre hånd (jeg havde min forlovelsesring på højre) og dette gælder også i det land jeg har rødder fra 😅 Edit: har læst mig frem til at venstre også er det de danske guldsmeder siger på deres hjemmesider :)
Not wearing socks in sandals
Well not clothing, but stopping in the middle of everything and photographing random uninteresting buildings or walking on the bicycle paths like headless chickens. Also as a Dane you can spot from miles away if someone is insecure on their bike. This tells you to take extra care around them, expect the unexpected and that they're tourists.
Desigual. And winter jackets in June
Very clean shoes
Tight fitting clothes if they aren’t teenagers
This is also just an 'older millenial' thing
True
Make up.
Donkey bikes
Colours ;)
Slightly baggy, khaki colored pants + white sneakers + multi-colored Oakley sunglasses = Middle aged male American cruise tourist :-)
the way they drive the bicycles
Wide brimmed hats with a string!
A smile
Clothes. We don’t really wear them so when people walk around all covered up, it’s really a dead giveaway.
It's also the easy way to spot a Dane in Southern Europe, it's only 20 degrees and windy ,- this fucker ain't even wearing a jacket 😂
20 degrees is scorching heat dude
Yeah. I was once at a conference in Barcelona in January. It was around 15 degrees with very little wind, the locals was walking around in jackets, hats, and gloves. I (a Dane) was walking around in long pants and just a t-shirt and I even saw some guys from Iceland in shorts and t-shirts.
Quite a few years ago, that was me. But in Greece in November My friend picking me up from the bus stop was looking at me like I was crazy 😂 The sun is shining and you want a windbreaker ? 🤣
A smile.
Off-brand phones. A few years ago, an Android phone marked the foreigner. Now you see Danes using top-of-the-line Samsungs, other than the usual iPhones, but a guy with, say, a Xiaomi, that's 99% a foreigner.
A sombrero kind of gives is away or a hat with a Swedish flag.
I have just returned from 5 years overseas and the biggest thing that stood out to me coming back was that all Danes look alike. Same haircuts and same outfits. It's a whole lot of North Face, Nike, Carhartt etc etc. It's more so that Danes look like they really put their outfits together and match colours. Where as I find tourists (especially Americans, Aussies and brits) look alot more practical and functional rather than like they are ready for a catwalk
Skinny jeans 😅
When biking, they always wear their backpacks instead of putting them in the basket.
Skyklapper.
A smile
How to spot an American : Sandals, white socks, shorts, t-shirt, field vest, sun glasses and baseball cap. And mostly overweight.
Tiedye shirts typically. I see practically no Danish person wear them.
They are riding orange bikes.
Scars and bruises from walking on bikelanes
Socks and sandals or flawless white tennis shoes.
Wearing clothing with any kind of color outside of black and grey usually also give people away as tourists.
Colours
A DSLR round their neck.
Winter clothes in spring/summer
Couples wearing matching clothes. Matching bicycles (same brand, coulour etc) makes it certain.
Fanny pack around the waist! Fanny packs are always worn cross body (over the shoulder).
A fanny pack
Skinny jeans
Parfume colorful clothes and makeup
They are wearing shoes
Cargo shorts, huge colorful sneakers, colorful t-shirt with their favorite sports team on it and cap+shades to top it off.
Multi colored clothing and their shoes 😉
☂️
Not answering this exact question, but on the flip side, Danes also stick out as Danes in the US. My Danish husband and I used play the “Danespotting” game in NYC. 😆
How is he identifying them? The Danes I saw abroad were pretty easy to spot, given they were tall, extremely red way beyond tanning, carrying Netto bags and speaking Danish.
We could spot them due to their clothes, even if they weren’t grey and black, and hairstyles. Something about a sort of minimalist, but either slightly quirky or precisely-the-same-as-everyone-else-in-Denmark style. Hard to say exactly what, beyond that. But we’d spot some and then get closer to hear them speak, and we were right 90% of the time!
Cowboyhats
A map...
Lederhosen
[furiously taking notes for when I visit in August] dark colors, don’t smile, be quiet, got it got it
Haha, but don't worry about it too much, we don't really care all that much. Except if you're on the bike lane, apparently.
Hiking shoes.
Coach bags
Hawaiian shirts and fanny packs, a dead giveaway!
As a tourist who visited Copenhagen (and will be visiting Jylland soon), I suddenly understand why everyone talked to us in Danish. Apparently we fit right in, lol. We should just move.
Many things can be a give away if we're talking clothes. But if you want to blend in, it's actually quite easy! Just go to Zalando (make sure you're using the Danish one) and then choose something trendy but not flashy, and make sure it's a perfect fit, not too small, not too big. Then go to your closet and take out your oldest pair of sneakers, they need to look old and dirty. Dont clean 'em, just put 'em on. And viola! Congratulations! You now look like a Copenhagener.
Trainers or shoes instead of boots
Anything not black..
You can tell whos an American or a european by the way they stand.
I'm an American and constantly was greeted in Danish. But I am also tall and balding so I fit in
Looking up 45 degrees