Busana dan budaya fashion santai di Australia

Kami berbicara dengan beberapa ahli mengenai gaya berpakaian di Australia yang biasanya casual atau santai, dan apa latar belakang gaya santai tersebut.
Anda juga bisa mendapatkan beberapa kata penting dalam pembicaraan sehari-hari mengenai fashion dari naskah dan audio yang tersedia di halaman ini.
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Cassandra Wheat and Peter Allan, fashion lecturers at RMIT University
After spending five years in Europe, Cassandra Wheat, a fashion lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, now realises how casual the Australian approach to dressing is.
“I don’t think we have these very strict rules that some cultures have in what you can wear and when. And I think it’s really evident by how many people wearing thongs, like flip flops - which should, in my mind, be for beach - on the street, to the office even.”
Peter Allan, Cassandra’s colleague agrees: "I'm always a bit horrified when I see young men wearing flip flops with suits. To me it's very jarring but it says something about our casual attitude."
Even on occasions where there is a dress code, Cassandra says Australian fashion is not as formal as in many other countries: “We still have business attire in the corporate places but it seems to be more and more casual within those environments."

Kirstie Clements, Editor-in-Chief, Vogue Australia
Kirstie Clements believes that it is possible to be casual and still look good and adds that the Australian climate presents a challenge when it comes to dressing up:

“I think the problem we have in the hot climate is it gets hot and therefore we wear less. In fact, you can have beautiful flowing dresses and long sleeves, things that are cooler than actually putting a lot of flesh on display. And a lot of things like cut-off shorts, thongs and things that look too kind of slapdash… That’s something I think we have to try and wrap our heads around.”

Jennifer Craik, Fashion Professor at RMIT University
Australians haven’t always been casual in the way they dress. Historical photographs from 1900s show that people wore suits and ties in the middle of desert in temperatures of 40 degrees or more.
Jennifer Craik, who researches Australian fashion history, told ABC’s Paul Barclay that being well-dressed has been an important part of the Australian culture in the past:

“Where often people represent Australia as having no interest in fashion at all, it was actually huge thing right from the first fleet because the supply ship with all the clothes and fabrics on it didn’t arrive for about 18 months. So, clothing became really important kind of reward and punishment system. And indeed, once convicts got out of prison they became very concerned about looking as if they were now free and not convicts. And so dressing up became a huge part of that early kind of culture.”

Christine Bagley-Jones, a counselling psychologist
According to Christine Bagley-Jones, Australia's distance from the global fashion capitals of the western world has resulted in a unique approach to fashion:

“To some extent we are still a little bit the poor cousin. We're not as isolated as we used to be because we've got the internet and the media keep us much more up to date. But we have developed more organically which makes us not as restrained as the normal catwalk examples. So we have more laidback approach. Now, that doesn’t have to mean we lack style. It just means perhaps we need to put a little bit more psychological effort into what we want to be saying behind the outfits we are wearing.”

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