Australian clothing - Lessons for beginners
Don’t bring socks. This is probably the most useless piece of clothing unless you spent all day in some corporate board room trying to buy Aussie companies. And I could even imagine some board members being bare-footed.
Forget about long trousers. At least in Queensland. Bus drivers? Short trousers. Policemen? Sure? Boat captains, sales persons, waiters? Short trousers (or, if you are daring or female) short skirts. Qantas ground personnel? Short trousers. I’m not sure about the airline captains, they might be the one exception. So bring shorts. Colorful, khaki or army-style are fine (The above mentioned board members will probably also all wear short trousers anyway…).
Bring a hat. Really. And use sunblock freely.
T-Shirts are fine. Shirts entirely optional. Don’t wear a shirt if you are nicely tanned, don’t care whether people around you stare and have used sunblock. Lot’s of it.
Exec summary: You need to wear trousers (short trousers) and you are well dressed for tourist Australia. This might change in the bigger cities but I’m not entirely sure…
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One Response to “Australian clothing - Lessons for beginners”
1 Laptops 25 June 2007 @ 19:15
He he, pretty much. I am trying to figure out what a ’short trouser’ is. I suspect you mean ’short longs’ or ‘long shorts’ as they say.
It’s great that this is how your culture works. Still, I’m not sure I’d be happy in a culture where T-shirts are optional, some should really keep their shirt on. But, still, corporate America could learn some lessons here : a suit or jacket doesn’t give you super powers. In fact, it doesn’t matter what you wear, it’s how you work that counts.
Still, for some people image is everything. But I’d rather do business with someone in short trousers than someone with a suit that costs the same price as my Apple laptop. Actually, I’d rather do business with anyone with an apple but that’s besides the point. Guys in expensive suits are usually trying to cheat you in some way… he he… at least that’s in my experience.
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