Originally Posted by JeremyZ
Lol.
To get to work every day, I have to walk through the periphery of Times Square. In August, it has been *crawling* with non-American tourists. My scientific observations reveal that there are definitely a lot of Europeans (like the Germans above) who don't quite live up to the higher standard that some are suggesting they have. They're in shorts, t-shirts and hats (and those uniquely European light blue socks). Asian-looking tourists *do* seem to more likely to be wearing long pants and buttoned shirts, for what that's worth.
Although, I will grant that larger Europeans seem to do a better job of finding clothes that fit, rather than the American custom of hanging out of the pants and shirts we bought 50 pounds ago.
And I have to navigate past the non-American tourists that have taken over Downtown. I find it easy to spot the English/Northern European tourists as they tend to wear soccer jerseys no matter what the occassion is (though I'm sure they wear the home whites to occassions more formal than vacationing in NYC). Then there are the Germans with their beer-bellies, shorts and dark socks.
And is there some type of law in Germany that dictates all males over 50 and at least 25lbs overweight MUST wear speedos to the beach? Was that part of the Versailles Treaty?