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A budding romance in Betoota’s Flight Path District has today blossomed into a steady relationship.
This comes as local school teacher Josh Denuto (28) took a metaphorical bullet to the ribs and agreed to join his young love for three hours of uninterrupted vintage shopping.
His date, Jessie Chandler (27) is a night nurse who rarely gets to lock in an afternoon like this. But now that she has a boyfriend, she can tell her friends that she’s going to give whatever sinful activities they have planned a miss and spend time with him.
At 5 ft 4 and a size 10, Jessie has a great time op-shopping, and is always one to stumble across pre-loved gems.
Josh doesn’t have as much fun doing this.
It’s not that he doesn’t like the idea of rocking vintage clothes. It’s not that he doesn’t enjoy hanging out with his girl.
It’s because, like most Australian men, Josh is well aware that the generation before him lived off meat and three veg – and therefore had fuck all size to them.
“These boomers were absolute pinners” says Josh.
“The fuck was going on? How were there so many ‘smalls’ getting around? No wonder they didn’t worry about spear tackles back in the day. You’d have less than 60 kilos on top of ya”
But it’s not just the sizes that are giving him curry, Josh says men’s fashion doesn’t date as well as women.
“Women’s fashion is cyclical” he says.
“What looked good then, looks good now. Not for us”
“My missus looks great in an old fur or flared jeans. It’s not the same for men. Why in green fuck would I want to wear a 1990s Billabong button up with shit written all over it”
“Or those suits with the massive collars. Saturday Night Fever isn’t coming back”
“Wait u… Ohhh that looks good babe. Love it haha. You should get it!”
