Hawaiian shirts: the fashion trend taking over the nightclub world. Or is it?
Personally, I’m more partial to a party dress than a party top on a night out, but upon talking to a guy friend (and occasional Hawaiian shirt wearer himself), I realised that there are actually some unspoken rules about when and where it’s appropriate to wear your oh so flamboyant Hawaiian top.
Other than 17 year old sticker artists and people who slurp ‘Go-gurt’ out of used enema bags, is there anyone as perennially cool as a DJ? These guys have somehow managed to monetise a job that used to be done for free by drunken uncles at weddings, turning an artform that started as a unique mode of expression for African-Americans in the urban jungle into a tool for meeting barely legals at schoolies and embarking on wild ‘finerbangathons’ that us non-DJs can only dream about.
I could sum up this article with four words: SMOKING IS NOT COOL!!!
Instead, however, I’ll explain my reasons for this and hope it doesn’t offend anyone reading if you are a smoker (nothing against you personally, just your terrible habit).
Whichever kind of clubber you might be, sooner or later you will encounter a dance floor. Whether you’re pushed onto one, pulled onto one, hanging to hit one or dying to escape one - everybody wants to look cool when they step, slide, shimmy or tip-toe onto a dance floor. For some of us this isn’t a problem, for others, we need