How fashionable are Australians?
May 1st 2005, 3:41 pm
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by JayDeee
That is so true, I live in country WA and when we went to Perth the other day it was really weird to see people all dressed up again, a warm day and all the office people wearing suits. A person in a suit in Gero is a rare site, even at formal functions like weddings.
I spend my life in a teeshirts and shorts, When we leave here I'm gonna look like country hicksville gal.
Kala
I spend my life in a teeshirts and shorts, When we leave here I'm gonna look like country hicksville gal.
Kala
Bet you'll be line dancing by the time you leave there
May 1st 2005, 5:40 pm
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
That's a very good question. Ozzie men wear, as far as I can see, in increasing order of formality:
- surf bum look (for the beach)
- shorts + tee-shirt (at home)
- jeans + shirt
- suit + tie (for the office)
- white tie & tails (for weddings)
There really seems a gap for what we Poms call "smart casual", e.g. linen suit, the Ozzie bloke just doesn't get this. Possibly they think this is the sort of thing "poofters" wear. Shame, as I think it's a cool look. Once in Oz, wearing some smart clothes of this type I (a bloke) was ironically wolf-whistled at by a workman! Perhaps it will come, in the same way that standards of cooking have risen over recent years.
- surf bum look (for the beach)
- shorts + tee-shirt (at home)
- jeans + shirt
- suit + tie (for the office)
- white tie & tails (for weddings)
There really seems a gap for what we Poms call "smart casual", e.g. linen suit, the Ozzie bloke just doesn't get this. Possibly they think this is the sort of thing "poofters" wear. Shame, as I think it's a cool look. Once in Oz, wearing some smart clothes of this type I (a bloke) was ironically wolf-whistled at by a workman! Perhaps it will come, in the same way that standards of cooking have risen over recent years.
May 1st 2005, 11:25 pm
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by HiddenPaw
I remember at my sister's wedding (in country Vic) people turned up to the church in jeans!! It was bizarre - there was the bride in a long flowing white gown, us bridesmaids in long blue silky dresses and strappy shoes, groom and groomsmen all in smart dark suits and dark glasses, and a load of guests in jeans and trainers.
Bet you'll be line dancing by the time you leave there
Bet you'll be line dancing by the time you leave there
May 1st 2005, 11:32 pm
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by DagBoy
Same in rural Qld. When MrsDagBoy's nephews came down to Bris for a family funeral I had to lend them shoes - they had remembered their suits - just hadn't remembered they needed shoes. One of them is a pineapple farmer and doesn't even wear shoes out in the fields most of the time. If he did I am sure he would want something with a good label though, otherwise the other farmers might think less of him.
I don't think Aussies care so much for labels here - or maybe it is that fewer of them care. That may be because they have more sense or it might just be that the lifestyle makes it irrelevant (at least up here). When I worked in the UK it was expected that I would wear a suit. I had several suits, all "labels", wore designer ties, nice shirts etc. In the last 4 years I have worn a suit about 10 times at work and most of them were in the first year.
Cheers,
DagBoy
I don't think Aussies care so much for labels here - or maybe it is that fewer of them care. That may be because they have more sense or it might just be that the lifestyle makes it irrelevant (at least up here). When I worked in the UK it was expected that I would wear a suit. I had several suits, all "labels", wore designer ties, nice shirts etc. In the last 4 years I have worn a suit about 10 times at work and most of them were in the first year.
Cheers,
DagBoy
May 1st 2005, 11:37 pm
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by Rooksie
have you seen delta goodrem :scared:
fashion in WA is about 30 yrs behind uk now that is frightening :scared:
May 1st 2005, 11:46 pm
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
I'm sorry, you can't easily buy Jimmy Choo's so Fashion and Australian should never be mentioned in the same breath!!
May 2nd 2005, 12:08 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Trouble is people who want to wear designer clothes are usually boring anyway, who wants to look like expensive clones of each other. What happened to people who like to look individual.
May 2nd 2005, 12:10 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Hang on with a name like your's, you're having a laugh aren't you - that's exactly what I've been saying!!!
Originally Posted by Mercedes
Trouble is people who want to wear designer clothes are usually boring anyway, who wants to look like expensive clones of each other. What happened to people who like to look individual.
May 2nd 2005, 2:00 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Where we live there are families who want a semi-rural liefeyle or hobby farmers. Noone wears smart clothes unless they are going to the steak restaurant or the restaurant at the pub then their clothes are clean and presentable.
Our neighbours all wear workman/country clothes/jeans some of us are in the CFA. At a meeting of the CFA the other month everyone was wearing paddock boots.
I like all the RM williams trousers, jeans or moleskins(esp in winter), straight leg, good fit, warm, tough and no metrosexual rubbish styling. I also wear good old 501s.
You can buy secondhand RM stuff in Op shops which are great for doing everything around the home (mowing, DiY) which is what you spend most of the time doing. I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here.
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Our neighbours all wear workman/country clothes/jeans some of us are in the CFA. At a meeting of the CFA the other month everyone was wearing paddock boots.
I like all the RM williams trousers, jeans or moleskins(esp in winter), straight leg, good fit, warm, tough and no metrosexual rubbish styling. I also wear good old 501s.
You can buy secondhand RM stuff in Op shops which are great for doing everything around the home (mowing, DiY) which is what you spend most of the time doing. I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here.
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May 2nd 2005, 2:06 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Sorry, "A Steak Restaurant"?????
The CFA???
It get's worse - "Second hand stuff"
This is getting daft now, you telling me you mow? why doesn't someone do it for you?
"I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here." What can I say?????
Chr1st on a bike, and i thought the UK had a problem.
The CFA???
It get's worse - "Second hand stuff"
This is getting daft now, you telling me you mow? why doesn't someone do it for you?
"I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here." What can I say?????
Chr1st on a bike, and i thought the UK had a problem.
Originally Posted by Badge
Where we live there are families who want a semi-rural liefeyle or hobby farmers. Noone wears smart clothes unless they are going to the steak restaurant or the restaurant at the pub then their clothes are clean and presentable.
Our neighbours all wear workman/country clothes/jeans some of us are in the CFA. At a meeting of the CFA the other month everyone was wearing paddock boots.
I like all the RM williams trousers, jeans or moleskins(esp in winter), straight leg, good fit, warm, tough and no metrosexual rubbish styling. I also wear good old 501s.
You can buy secondhand RM stuff in Op shops which are great for doing everything around the home (mowing, DiY) which is what you spend most of the time doing. I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here.
Badge
Our neighbours all wear workman/country clothes/jeans some of us are in the CFA. At a meeting of the CFA the other month everyone was wearing paddock boots.
I like all the RM williams trousers, jeans or moleskins(esp in winter), straight leg, good fit, warm, tough and no metrosexual rubbish styling. I also wear good old 501s.
You can buy secondhand RM stuff in Op shops which are great for doing everything around the home (mowing, DiY) which is what you spend most of the time doing. I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here.
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May 2nd 2005, 3:06 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by Badge
Where we live there are families who want a semi-rural liefeyle or hobby farmers. Noone wears smart clothes unless they are going to the steak restaurant or the restaurant at the pub then their clothes are clean and presentable.
Our neighbours all wear workman/country clothes/jeans some of us are in the CFA. At a meeting of the CFA the other month everyone was wearing paddock boots.
I like all the RM williams trousers, jeans or moleskins(esp in winter), straight leg, good fit, warm, tough and no metrosexual rubbish styling. I also wear good old 501s.
You can buy secondhand RM stuff in Op shops which are great for doing everything around the home (mowing, DiY) which is what you spend most of the time doing. I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here.
Badge
Our neighbours all wear workman/country clothes/jeans some of us are in the CFA. At a meeting of the CFA the other month everyone was wearing paddock boots.
I like all the RM williams trousers, jeans or moleskins(esp in winter), straight leg, good fit, warm, tough and no metrosexual rubbish styling. I also wear good old 501s.
You can buy secondhand RM stuff in Op shops which are great for doing everything around the home (mowing, DiY) which is what you spend most of the time doing. I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here.
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May 2nd 2005, 3:23 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by HiddenPaw
I remember at my sister's wedding (in country Vic) people turned up to the church in jeans!! It was bizarre - there was the bride in a long flowing white gown, us bridesmaids in long blue silky dresses and strappy shoes, groom and groomsmen all in smart dark suits and dark glasses, and a load of guests in jeans and trainers.
Bet you'll be line dancing by the time you leave there
Bet you'll be line dancing by the time you leave there
Kala
May 2nd 2005, 4:04 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by MJC
Sorry, "A Steak Restaurant"?????
The CFA???
It get's worse - "Second hand stuff"
This is getting daft now, you telling me you mow? why doesn't someone do it for you?
"I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here." What can I say?????
Chr1st on a bike, and i thought the UK had a problem.
The CFA???
It get's worse - "Second hand stuff"
This is getting daft now, you telling me you mow? why doesn't someone do it for you?
"I've hardly bought any new clothes in 18 months here." What can I say?????
Chr1st on a bike, and i thought the UK had a problem.
Or I can say is, where we live there is no corelation of what you wear with your socio-economic status.
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May 2nd 2005, 4:06 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by chocaholic
I'm glad you're wearing something on your feet. Are paddock boots wellies or blundies or RM boots?
Mostly blundies. They could be any boot that is a ankle slip-on with a rubber sole, a derivative of a work boot or a riding boot. Maybe a metal toe cap. When I was jackerooing I wore "riding" ankle boots, ie I bought them from a equestrian mob, now I wear Blundies, I have a pair of RMs for everything else.
And a few parting gestures to fashion walking boots now and again.
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Last edited by Badge; May 2nd 2005 at 4:08 am.
May 2nd 2005, 4:14 am
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Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Agree with everyone who says it depends where you are. In Sydney there are areas (Paddington, Woollahra, Double Bay Etc) where they are perfectly accessorised and wearing head to toe labels even to pop out for milk. In the country it's all RM Williams, driza-bones and flannos. You'll also find pretty much everything in between. There are plenty of Australian fashion mags and some of the Aussie designers are getting pretty big globally. Horses for courses I suppose.