Sartorial standards at an Australian wedding - from our own correspondent

[TheEdwardian]

Just received an email from my father who is in Oz for a family wedding

"Wedding has come and gone, somewhat sadly my £45 quid suit made me the best dressed attendee, also got best shirt and tie award from very drunken groomsmen - when I flashed the socks it may have been a step too far."

He was wearing a plastic suit of generically innofensive styling from Matalan as he intended to wear once and dump it to save luggage allowance on the way home. With a few basic tweaks by my talented mother, it looked fine for a one off, although obviously I couldn't condone the behaviour. Nor could I comment on the accesories, though I imagine they would not have been...subtle.

The family already thought he was TehGhey from his last visit where he wandered in vain around the suburbs searching for a decent cup of coffee wearing pink polo and carrying a manbag. He plays up to it now...

If that was the zenith, I dread to think what the rest looked like. Can't wait to see the photos. Anyone care to comment on/provide evidence of current standard for middle class Sydney nuptials? Is it full on Jersey Shore?

 

[Luddite]

Strange that he should find a decent cup of coffee so hard to find. Melbourne and Sydney both usually do coffee pretty well.

Oh. Sorry. Were you talking about clothes?

Australians mostly don't talk about clothes.

 

[tone76]

As a rule, Australian men can't dress for ****.

I spent the last week in Melbourne, the alleged style capital of Australia. Wall to wall ill fitting suits and bicycle toe shoes.

I only saw ONE person in Melbourne wearing a pocket square, and that was the dude staring back at me in the mirror in my hotel room. Very disappointing.

 

[tone76]

*double post*

 

[Tano]

The problem is our range is very limited and the cheap Chinese **** sells for more than the good stuff in other countries.. Eg fused Chinese suits start at 600 at dept stores, 90 for cheap ass chinese shirts.

 

[blahman]

It's a place where we have terms like:
marfs, manpurse, manbag etc.

Where talking about clothes and wear scarves make you teh ****.
Grooming is teh ****.
Wearing pink is teh ****.
Not binge drinking is teh ****.
Wearing pocket square is teh ****.
Loake L1s cost $275+

But watching 36 men in tight tank tops and short shorts grabbing each other is apparantly not teh ****.