2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Add in Lady Gaga, a gimic to bring on the masses and then over time tone it down.  Now Elton John was a flamboyant man and still is in the fashions he wears.  One of a kind.

There was the 'Hornblower' series on BBC some years back not only was I able to watch all the episodes on Youtube but there was also a program showing how it was made including interviews with the actors, it seems that they were so enamoured with the period clothing that they were loath to take them off after shooting was done for the day that they socialised in the evening still wearing them.

I wonder if he wandered down Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street late on a Saturday night dressed like that, if he would encounter a Glasgow kiss.

10 hours ago, katana said:

I wonder if he wandered down Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street late on a Saturday night dressed like that, if he would encounter a Glasgow kiss.

Possibly, from a drunk, but he obviously lives somewhere civilised.

I rather think you underestimate the capacity for acceptance in modern day society.  Many years ago now my parents visited me in Bavaria where I was living, my father spent a fortune on genuine Bavarian traditional clothes (still often worn about in the country towns in the summer) This included shorts made from deer leather with hand decorated braces in leather embroidered with flowers and a felt hat decorated with a tuft of chamois hair (Gamsbart), heavy natural brown leather hiking shoes and knee length heavy duty beige socks  my mother got a dirndl dress. When they went home to Essex they plucked up their courage and wore them on a Saturday outing, they were not laughed at but instead admired with people asking where they bought them (shocked though at the price). My Father had a business in Covent garden and employed drivers and porters (the roughest of the rough) and he wore his Bavarian outfit for a laugh one day but instead received only positive remarks although he got a few Hitler salutes in jest. In Munich I have seen Scotsmen in kilts, the full monty, but again people didn't take the p**s but seemed quite fascinated, I spoke with one Scotsman and he remarked, whether in Germany or England the girls want to know what we wear underneath, I always tell them nothing and after a few beers some try and look he said.

11 hours ago, katana said:

I wonder if he wandered down Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street late on a Saturday night dressed like that, if he would encounter a Glasgow kiss.

 

  Is the street patronised by poorly educated intolerant violent people ?

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Possibly, from a drunk, but he obviously lives somewhere civilised.

I rather think you underestimate the capacity for acceptance in modern day society.  Many years ago now my parents visited me in Bavaria where I was living, my father spent a fortune on genuine Bavarian traditional clothes (still often worn about in the country towns in the summer) This included shorts made from deer leather with hand decorated braces in leather embroidered with flowers and a felt hat decorated with a tuft of chamois hair (Gamsbart), heavy natural brown leather hiking shoes and knee length heavy duty beige socks  my mother got a dirndl dress. When they went home to Essex they plucked up their courage and wore them on a Saturday outing, they were not laughed at but instead admired with people asking where they bought them (shocked though at the price). My Father had a business in Covent garden and employed drivers and porters (the roughest of the rough) and he wore his Bavarian outfit for a laugh one day but instead received only positive remarks although he got a few Hitler salutes in jest. In Munich I have seen Scotsmen in kilts, the full monty, but again people didn't take the p**s but seemed quite fascinated, I spoke with one Scotsman and he remarked, whether in Germany or England the girls want to know what we wear underneath, I always tell them nothing and after a few beers some try and look he said.

Could he also do the Schuhplattler?

 

41 minutes ago, katana said:

Could he also do the Schuhplattler?

 

Only after 3 mass of beer