September 30, 2009
Guru, being blue, has to think especially carefully about what colours suit him best. So much so that he is encouraged to hear that more and more Britons are opting for that easy, suits-everyone, monochrome look.
According to well-known fashion experts Travelodge, British workers are taking their fashion advice from film director Quentin Tarantino, and power-dressing in black and white, like the characters in his iconic blood fest, Reservoir Dogs.
Basing its fashion decree on the clothes left behind in its rooms (without, apparently, asking why), Travelodge has concluded the following:
- 60% of the 14,786 shirts left behind were white
- 89% of the 1005 discarded business suits were black, as were
- 50% of the 3,105 ties (surely this suggests funerals, rather than business)
- 50 of the 69,986 abandoned socks were, less surprisingly, black
Sadly, these figures suggest to Guru, not a nation of sharply dressed smooth operators, but one of dull people who can still, despite the recession, afford to chuck away clothes. Or that people considering illicit encounters, particularly with sexual or murdurerous intent, see Travelodge as their venue of choice.
Either way, Guru will not be taking his style tips from a budget hotel chain.
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