BuyFromEU

Different to what most people are doing, but I've been thinking about dressing more European. So many popular casual clothes come from the US: bomber jackets, duck chore jackets, baseball caps, most sneakers, jeans. The last two alone are permanent parts of "default dude uniform".

So I now e.g. have:

• a harrington jacket (ironically the name comes from an American show, made in China from UK brand) - it's an English golfing jacket by origin
• a Shetland sweater (made in Shetland)
• a tartan wool scarf (made in Scotland)
• some corduroy and moleskin pants for the winter (Made in Bangladesh, UK company)
• wool balmacaan-style overcoat from Italian tweed made in Portugal
• chukka boots (Made in England).

Also eyeing a French chore coat.

You'd think doing this would be really easy given how the US came to be. Say, a suit is European, but wearing one every day is not as common as before. The overall theme in the west is that democratization is cool, while tradition is not. But when I think Europe, I think tradition. Hence the suit is European, but it's not "cool".

Corduroy and shetland sweaters are pretty "grandpa" as well. But I guess this is the arduous process of re-learning an identity after being fed American culture all the time while growing up. You just don't know what's yours.

As you can see by the items it's all clothes that come from the UK. Again, it was easiest to pick the UK because it was the purveyor of European style, back before, you know.