OK OK, I know I missed March and it's been six weeks, but I guess it's been a busy six weeks.

Today I went to an exhibition at the NGV entitled Manstyle. Basically it's an exhibition of random clothing items designed or worn by blokes. It's more or less contemporary outfits with some stuff from over the past couple of decades. Like a number of the small temporary exhibitions at the NGV I've seen over the past couple of months, it's a pretty random collection of items. Anyway, there were two stand out items there

a) This weird frayed denim jacket thing by Vivenne Westwood with a big red thing around the penile area


and then there was this item which I feel steals the show...

b) This unwashed rainsoaked green Animal brand green jacket on which most of the waterproofing has been artistically removed by regular exposure to Dublin precipitation


PS. I like the way the NGV stands for the National Gallery of Victoria. I hate to break it to the good people of Melbourne, but Victoria is not a nation, despite what many of it's inhabitants might think.