Well, I've never sported red trousers, purple yes. But I was surprised how prevalent they seem in the posh parts of the UK, I thought it was a particularly Italian affliction.

An old colleague and mucca of mine contributes to this blog, out of the blue yesterday, over cigars and Jamaican rum he called up this blog on his mobile and said this was his hobby - spotting red trousers on business trips. Each to his own, but I thought it was quite funny today when I had a look and on tedious business trips, especially in Italy, not a bad little game to play in lonely hotel lobbies whilst waiting for taxis or business associates arriving late.

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They no longer signify a thing.

Why ?

Because they are now deliberately worn to TRY to signify something.

Not the genuinely organic origins of the style at all.

The 'Insider's Reference / Joke' is now long dead as plebs from *Wherever* ( Kingston-Upon-Thames ? ) have read about the style and copied it thinking that they too will look 'Posh'.

Think that anything in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook' remained posh after publication & Daily Mail readers started to wear Barbours ?

Think that 'The Official Preppy Handbook' didn't also debase the very style that they were tongue-in-cheek celebrating ?

Class signifiers are very much like the youth subcultural signifiers of what's 'cool' - When the wrong people start doing it it's over & you move on.

That's the reality of the semiotics class.

Well maybe I'm off base and as you guys say it's more a case of ostentation is frowned upon and disapproval by women of such dressing has seeped into the current zeitgeist .. but why would that be the case? Interesting stuff.

One issue which you guys raise is that these 'stylers' will move on and find something else as a style signifier once it has hit the mainstream, but how is this congruent with classic dressing? If they are forced to do this aren't they then following a fashion of a sort like a teenage girl .. instead of attempting to attain higher aesthetic value they are running from dressing like the masses or style enthusiasts aka I gents which could end in dressing terribly? This may be a little philosophical for a style website but surely there are optimum style aesthetics to aim at, so whether one man or many men wear something resembling this it makes no difference to its aesthetic value. Dressing to show your status or some other mark is something entirely different of course.

Fruity

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Yeah mate! The average aussie only uses glasses for very special occasions, and only then it is old vegemite glasses we get from the supermarket. Fxh will tell ya.

Here is a picture of the classic aussie vegemite glass everyone had in their Big knockers (see the 5th picture):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Vegemite_jars_timeline.jpg

When we had a fine dinner party we always brought out the vegemite glasses to add extra class to the party. And we used plastic dinner plates instead of paper ones to show how fancy we could be. Of course no-one ever wore shoes to the party, it was just singlettes and stubbie shorts mate, and always a barbie (BBQ). When we finished putting on appearances we would put the glasses away and crack open the beer stubbies and let it all hang out. The glasses were only to make an initial impression, in most houses it is plastic cups from the supermarket, or for proper blokes, beer!

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