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British dress-code

We give ourselves away by how we dress. Nostalgia and
traditionalism are also expressed in appearances. The
majority of British people dress conservatively rather than
fashionably. A small number of the upper and
professional upper middle class, for example barristers,
diplomats, army officers and Conservative MPs dress in
the well-tried styles of the past 50 years or so. Many of
the men still have their suits specially tailored, and are
thus instantly recognisable as belonging to the upper
echelons of society. Yet how they dress is wholly unrepresentative of society in general.
The vast majority of people buy their clothes at the high-street stores, of which Marks and
Spencer must be the most famous. They wear the clothes of the British middle classes, perfectly
passable but hardly stylish like the dress standards in much of Europe. Indeed, the British still
have a reputation for being the worst dressed people in Europe, and they do not really care.
There is a tolerance, shabbiness and inventiveness in the way some, particularly the young,
dress. There can be few countries where people who can afford new clothes deliberately choose
to buy the "cast-offs" of others. Yet in Britain many people, especially students and other young
people, happily look for bargains at the thousands of charity shops that exist all over the country.
Many who buy their clothes from these shops are genuinely needy. But equally, many are not.
They choose to buy their clothes in charity shops because they arc cheap and because they
sometimes find wonderful bargains: almost new, high quality items that cost next 10 nothing. in
fact, some of the most dress-conscious young people und astonishing clothes at these shops, and
manage to look sensational when they wear them. It is, perhaps, a flair for clothes that is peculiarly British.

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