Ah, Europe

...where purple velvet pants on a middle-aged man signify nothing more than a fondness for haberdashery. Ordinary men here put American metrosexuals to shame. And it's not just men - I've seen quite a few pairs of black leather pants on proper middle-aged women. People here wear these things so well, you sort of don't notice until a minute later. You kind of do a double take - like, was that man actually wearing mustard yellow fine wale corduroy, or am I dreaming?