Curious case of trouser fashion.

Picture the scene - it's a pleasant Friday morning at the train station. Peaceful as it's the end of mid term week, with Friday's usually quieter and as I elected to take a later train, no Girlfriends, Boys' Town Gang, Poison Grannie or the usual eejits.

Finding a place on the platform completely to myself, the first tranche of shagwit appears. Nobody near me for twenty yards but one plank decides to stand within 5 feet of me, which was puzzling, followed by an older woman who decides to stand directly behind the other eejit, which then made it difficult for anyone passing to get through.

Why do they do this?

Anyway, not the point. As the platform starts to fill, a chap stands near me and I am looking at his pinstripe suit with bold striped shirt wondering why he likes stripes so much to look like a tiny stripy......thing. I become aware of people further down looking at a chap passing and a ripple as he heads up the platform towards me and The Stripe, which I couldn't understand until he came into full view.

The Stripe also clocked him and regarded him with a look that is best described as perplexed amusement. The guy was dressed in a linen shirt, blue jacket, camel chinos and brown shoes. Sounds normal, right? Yes, until you realise his trousers finished at the top of his blue socks.

Even more perplexing was the fact that he had turn ups to create this look, so it was meant, not the result of an accident or a very sudden growth spurt nor grabbing the wrong trousers when he ran out in the morning.

First thing it reminded me of was at school when someone's trousers were a bit short, we asked them if their granny or budgie had just died as that meant that mundane things such as trouser length was overlooked.

Don't think that was the problem though as this guy was walking the swagger of a man who thinks he's chocolate and about to take a large bite out of himself, not the look of a grieving person. He had no clue that he looked ridiculous and everyone was having a laugh at his expense, even The Stripe, who was enjoying this tremendously.
Remember, that The Stripe at the top of this post was cutting a strange figure by his mode of dress and it goes to show that no matter how much of an eejit you are or look, there is always someone out there willing as well as able to make you feel somewhat superior.

They walk among us......