Let’s find out today which are 8 worst dressed countries in the world. Surprisingly, there are a lot of surveys about best-dressed countries in the world but not so many about worst dressed countries! So, we decided to be the fashion police and check out where men and women don’t think too much about what will they wear.
Did you know that the history of fashion design started less than two centuries ago? And the first widely recognized fashion designer was Rose Bertin, who „dressed up“ famous Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. But, if we consider the fashion we are accustomed to today, the first fashion designer will be Charles Frederick Worth, who lived in the 19th century. He owned his own fashion industry and he primarily designed for Elisabeth of Austria. Remember those beautiful crinoline-dresses? He made them popular, and women didn’t mind wearing those metal cages inside their dresses just to be stylish!
The first real fashion shows were organized at the beginning of the 20th century, when Western fashion was already strongly influenced by the East, by Jeanne Paquin. The famous androgynous style became popular in the early ninety-twenties when women tend to be thinner and threw away their corsets and baggy clothes. The sporty look was popularized by Coco Chanel, as well as the popular little black dress and the bob hairstyle. Haute couture was popularized again in the 1950s, with Dior, Balenciaga, Balmain, and Givenchy. But that was only the beginning of changing the popular fashion styles decade by decade, from the revolutionary style in the sixties crowned by Twiggy, through the hippy-seventies, spectacular-eighties, minimalist-nineties to the variety of styles in the 21th century.
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We traveled through the history of fashion for a while to remind you of all fashion styles invented by creative individuals, but now we will move away from the fashion shows, bright lights, and catwalks, to find out what people actually wear on the daily basis. It’s not like you wear the iconic fashion pieces and drink one of 11 best tasting tequilas in the world when doing daily tasks, don’t you?
The surveys that we have found on the internet regarding the worst dressed countries in the world were the following: the survey conducted by the shopping website „Ciao“ (source Daily Mail)and the portal „Zoover“ (source Falanga). They have asked for their visitors’ opinions about the worst dressed countries in the world. We combined the results from these two surveys to make our own list of 8 worst dressed countries in the world. We have also included one of the surveys done by the Titanic Awards (source Huffington post) which also asked the visitors about the world’s worst dressed nations when they are visiting another country as tourists. We awarded the country on each list with 8 points if it was in the first place of the list, with 7 points if it was the second on the list and so on, and added up the numbers to make our own list of the worst dressed countries in the world. So, let’s see together which country is the least fashion conscious (speaking of the majority of population, not individuals):
8. The Russian Federation
3 points
Even the Russian themselves knows this is true, as one of the travel blogs written by Russian writers say that the Russians tend to be too flashy, even in everyday fashion!
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7. The USA
We had to put the USA in our list of 8 worst dressed countries in the world, as they are actually named the worst dressed tourists ever. Maybe it’s time to leave those comfortable clothes and try to be better dressed on the daily basis!
5 points
6. Japan
6 points
I think that people voted for this country only because there are a lot of fashion extremes on the streets of Tokyo, for example. This combination of traditional look and something that could be called international look, doesn’t sit well with respondents of the surveys.
5. The Netherlands
No, they don’t wear their clogs every day, but the reason they are voted as one of the worst dressed countries ever is maybe that other people think they do!?
7 points
4. China
Is it true that they don’t have fashion sense or it is just talked about that too much and they are labeled as a poorly dressed nation? Well, according to what we have found on the internet, people tend to think that Chinese men are more poorly dressed than women.
8 points
3. Greece
This country in the southeastern Europe is maybe well-appreciated as one of the best places to visit for tourist, but they are also not very famous when it comes to well dressing up.
9 points
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2. Germany
14 points
Simplicity is the best word to describe the German fashion style that can be seen on the streets of this country. It is noticed that the population is aging, since the number of newborns is lower, so the fashion style is more casual, comfortable and unimaginative, adjusted for seniors.
1. The United Kingdom
16 points
And the United Kingdom tops our list of 8 worst dressed countries in the world! Alexander McQueen would describe the British sense of fashion as fearless and self-confident, but it seems that people in other parts of the world obviously think they are terrible dressers!
