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Eurotrash style

Jackie Susann

03:34 / 15.01.04

So, this weekend I have to go to a party with a 'eurotrash' theme, but I really don't know what that means - my only point of reference is the annoying German at the end of the Simpson's episode where Grandpa and Mr Burns fight it out for the stolen Nazi art treasures. How does one dress eurotrash? Is it the same as 'annoying garish yuppie', or is there a more subtle distinction I'm missing?

Kit-Cat Club

09:37 / 15.01.04

Your skin colour should be orange and you should wear lots of expensive but ghastly designer clothes (garish, yes), in an over-the-top way. Big sunglasses.

Or go as Antoine de Caunes.

Kit-Cat Club

11:40 / 15.01.04

Talk about threadkilling... I think I've killed the entire forum...

captain piss

12:42 / 15.01.04

Aww, don't be like that KKC (know how you feel, though). Or is it maybe a call to combine "trashy/sexually available" (not totally sure what that word means) and "European" in a costume...
Dress up as a nazi with weird underwear and stuff (err -no, that's not what I think about a lot- gulp).
Hmm, I keep thinking of the UK TV programme, which seemed to involve lots of elderly Germans explaining their weird activities with voice-overs translating their speech in silly UK accents like Brummie and Newcastle.

Sax

12:44 / 15.01.04

German porn star.

Or a dirndl dress and spangly boots.

A moustache, definitely.

Cat Chant

13:37 / 15.01.04

Listen to the Chicks on Speed song 'Eurotrash Girl' over and over again. This will not help you decide how to dress, but it will make you happy inside, which I'm told is more important than external appearance anyway.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

17:13 / 15.01.04

For a while, Eurotrash seemed to mean all those iffy Middle-European aristos with titles like Chevalier de Seingault and Graf von Alsace-Godesburg, who drive Ferraris and sleep with models/actors and gamble small houses over dinner. Then it seemed to mean porno-chic. Who the hell knows?

Doctor Singapore

22:42 / 16.01.04

Two words: Paris Hilton.

Just look in any men's or women's fashion magazine, and find a full-page photo ad that makes you say: "Who the hell would actually buy these hideous clothes, let alone wear them in public?" Bonus points if the models are draped over each other in sexually suggestive poses. If one or more is wearing a gold medallion or alligator-skin anything, you've hit the jackpot.

Then tear it out, go to your local thrift store and attempt to replicate the look. And wear plenty of mascara --even if you're male. In fact, especially if you're male.

Cherry Bomb

09:57 / 17.01.04

This is what I think of when I think "Eurotrash"

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