(20-02-2024, 01:11 PM)EvertonDiehard Wrote: I see some men and women dressed in stylish shirts and polo tees with matching pants, dresses, skirts or bermudas out and about. Why can't more locals follow suit instead of looking like they are dressed to go to the neighbourhood wet market?
The one piece dress has come back, and its fabric quality, floral pattern and cutting are even better than those of the 1970s. Yup, it's been half a century since wonen ditched that really nice one piece dress for jeans, pants and skirts, and tops which included blouses and T-shirts with Mickey Mouse prints.
And when they opened their mouth to talk, it wasn't Hokkien or Cantonese, sure giveaways that those now-boomers were sinkies but either Mandarin or Singlish which would leave no one in any doubt that they were the daughters of the former. In other words, our Singaporean women do dress very well. The cutting of the one piece dress accentuates the woman's curves and makes no mistake about it, that this is a woman, very feminine and to those who are still hesitating, it's saying that it's time to bring one home to meet your parents.
The Malaysians are the ones wearing clothes which are at least 10 years out of fashion. Many of them came from the poorer parts of Malaysia. Just recently I asked a jhb where she came from. She said Perak. So I asked if it was Ipoh. She said no, it was somewhere near but she didn't say where, what the name of that town was either because she had an inferiority complex or because she thought I was unlikely to have heard of it, so what for.. no point.
The Chinese are another kettle of fish. In their attempt to dress well, they over killed. Their dress sense is so exaggerated that... I'd better stop here before I get ceca bombs thrown at me telling me to balek.... go home... go back to Mumbai.