GQ's Worst Dressed Men in the World

First of all, can I say what an absolute pleasure it is to see such negativity coming from a mainstream publication?! The style mags are usually the number one culprits where hyping up ridiculous looks is concerned, shamelessly promoting whatever fad the latest flash in the pan E-list celebrity is promoting in the hope it will get them an exclusive interview yet here we see the unashamed slagging off of public figures whose sense of style is utterly wretched. Long may this continue!

You can read the piece here:

 GQ Worst Dressed Men in the World

My observations are as follows:

10. Ollie Locke

I have absolutely no idea who this person is. He does, however, bear a passing resemblance to Lorenzo Lamas (star of 90s TV series Renegade) and if I were pushed to guess I would say he was a gay porn star.

9. Jamie Oliver

To be fair to him, his wardrobe is probably struggling to keep up with his weight gain.

8. Douglas Alexander

Don’t know who this is either but, in all fairness to him, who expects politicians to be stylish?

7. An Orange Man off the Only Way is Essex

Read the description for number 8 but replace ‘politicians’ with ‘people from Essex’. Did you know it’s a legal requirement for all women in Essex to own at least three leopard print garments? The police actually have the right to enter your house without a warrant if they suspect you don’t.

6. A Man from Mumford and Sons

GQ says it’s inappropriate for a public schoolboy to appropriate the look of America’s Deep South but I think those two groups have more in common than people realise. Insular communities with strange rituals that are a mystery to outsiders? Check. Strangely elongated vowels? Check. Incest and inbreeding? All present and correct.

5. A Man from Abercrombie and Fitch

Think I’ll skip this one as I don’t know who’s who in the photo.

4. Mr Dappy

This is the guy who played Gollum in Lord of the Rings, I assume? Well, they’ve done well to get him wearing any sort of clothes.

3. Robbie Savage

The Lidl version of David Beckham? I certainly didn’t say that. Okay, I certainly did just say that.

2. Steve Hilton

A man from politics, apparently. Still, there’s probably little point trying to dress stylishly when you look like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family.

1. Chris Brown

Crikey. Baggy clothes, sportswear and more than one bow tie. Simple maths would suggest if you get it wrong so many times you must eventually get it right. But in his case that seems not to be the case.

Underpants, Overpants, Wombling Free AKA A Tricky Moral Dilemma Pertaining to Underpants

Morality is a notoriously tricky thing. For whilst some choices you have to make have a fairly clear right and wrong answer, there are other dilemmas to which the solution is unclear to point of being baffling. Indeed, sometimes it’s all but impossible to tell whether there even are right and wrong choices at all.

For example, every now and then I give away my old and unwanted clothes (I know, it’s very generous of me, but I like to think of it as a small gesture towards helping those less fortunate than myself to at least come vaguely close to aping my incredible sense of style). However, as I gather the retired garments together and put them into a bag I also wonder what should be sent to the charity shop/clothing bank and what should simply be thrown away. The main moral dilemma here is that of underpants. I appreciate, on one hand, that when you throw away a pair of pants it’s usually because they’re worn and soiled to the point of near destruction, but then I’m sure that a freezing tramp, when faced with a choice between spending a night on the streets in a torn pair of trousers and a jumper full of holes or doing so in the nude with opt for the former. Beggars can’t be choosers indeed.

So, if I were forced to make a decision, I would assume the same to be true of pants. Surely it’s better to have someone’s old and decrepit pants than to be forced to go commando? But I fully realise that this is morally dubious area, and that I really have no idea what the right thing to do is. When the prim, middle aged ladies who volunteer at charity shops open the bags of donations that have been left outside, do they recoil in horror if they discover one of them to contain an aged pair of undergarments, tut and go, ‘well, honestly! Do people really think we want their old pants?!’ Or is it a completely different situation? Is there an African village somewhere in which once a month the elders send their fastest and fittest runner to the nearest city, hundreds of miles away, in order to collect donations from a charity, let a week pass, then wait in anticipation when they see him on the horizon, their expectations growing all the time, only for him to arrive, crestfallen, and announce sadly, ‘there were… No pants...’?

So, it’s a tricky area, as you can see. I’m no closer to resolving it. There is one more thing to consider, and that’s that if clothes are not in a fit state to sell or give away the fabric can still be recycled. But into what, exactly?! Other clothes? Cloths? If that’s the case, would you really want to wear something made out of my old pants? Or clean the floor with cloths made out of my worn out undercrackers?!?! The mind boggles, and the public need to be told!!!