England: the worst country ever, says mid-market fashion retailer of which I've never heard. "29 per cent of Brits considered their sunglasses were their most important style accessory compared with only three per cent in France and Italy." That's so no one can STAB YOUR EYES.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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I do not understand why, but your refusal to refer to England as anything but Knifecrime Island is a dependable and WHOLLY CRUCIAL source of hilarity for me. I mean, I have LITERALLY used it to get through bad dates, encounters with speculums, etc.
Keep up the good work!
+1 (shiv)
Also, any post combining references to Knifecrime Island and its offspring, Prison Island, will have me LOLing at random moments days later.
That said, isn't Balk the official Knifecrime Island Correspondent At Large?
Hold on! Is it a coincidence that "chav" and "shiv" are such similar words?!?
I think i'm on to something...
"Knifecrime Island" sounds like a 1960's Disney Wonderful World of Color episode.
Also,hate to break it to you, but most people in most countries dress pretty crappy. If you think Brits, or Europeans* are stylish, you're seeing them at their best, or you've been drinking too much. A lot of H&M and Miss Sixty wandering around out there, as far as I can see. Maybe when you're on vacation you're spending up and seeing a crowd you don't normally hang out with.
*I don't think Brits consider themselves Europeans unless they're getting drunk and obnoxious in an EU country with cheaper alcohol.
DON'T CALL BALK At Large, because HE will LOL over that all day.
Jesus Fucking Christ
"The Italians were voted the most stylish with only three per cent calling them as badly dressed."
'Stylish' and 'badly dressed' are NOT mutually exclusive people.
ALSO! (from the comments)
"CaptainObvious
"Oh, and another thing- we might not be draped in finery all the time, but we know what a bar of soap and a razor look like. Show me a French person that doesn't smell of feet and I'll show you someone pretending to be French."
Um. About a year ago, when I went to visit my sister in Bath (she was studying abroad there) we went out one night and never have I felt so underdressed and frumpy IN MY LIFE - and I have been out drinking in most countries in Europe. So my anecdotal experience totally trumps your pan-european study.
Yes, but then there's Katie Price and the trannies in the above photo, which kinda cancels out your sharp-dressed Bathies. (Bathers? Bathites?)
And they are fond of matching scrunchies & trackies also -- which may explain everything or nothing at all..
Does this mean I should blow off Glastonbury?
In my more-than-anecdotal experience (having lived there for 30 years) the Brits love putting on nice gear far more than the French (grubby) and the Italians (a bunch of clones), and don't get me started on Americans. Have you looked outside of NYC? There's a reason why most Yanks think Brits are gay: we dress better than they do.
There are some beautiful places in rural America, but I can't live in any of them because my wardrobe has too many sleeves and not enough NASCAR logos.
Denim is a versatile fabric.
In the daytime, Londoners dress as badly as New Zealanders.
Whoah, that's unprovoked. I've never seen anyone here in the antipodes think a matching tracksuit is acceptable going-out-on the razz wear.
I will grant you there seems to be a number of people who think there is nothing more delightful than going to life-sucking malls in trackpants, but these people appear like a rash on the globe everywhere.
No one dresses worse than the Irish. Ever. Day, night, work, funeral, court. On the rare occasions they eschew track suits and pyjamas the men will wear a suit and ONLY button the bottom button and the women will wear clothes donated to Goodwill by underage Slovakian prostitutes who outgrew them. True story.
Seriously. If you see a guy dressed like a 17 year-old Rush and Tull listening D-and-D player you can be sure he just wandered away from a diplomatic reception.