You got Style 2#

Well, actually you don't.
If European fashion is the barometer of style, then we are definitely out of sync with the rest of the world.
Surfer stuff aside, Australians can be pretty stylish people. We love a bargain, don't shy away from vintage, and generally don't look too boring or skanky. We have good-value, interesting fashion available in a number of different price ranges, which means everyone has the opportunity to dress well.
Not so in europe, where there is very little available between the mass-produced H&M, Zaras and Mangoes of the continent and the super teuer "400 Euro for a jacket" type of fashion.
And boy can you tell.

Another difference is purely a regional one. What is cute, different and retro in Australia is just what normal middle-aged women wear in Europe. Take the high-waisted denim skirt with a tucked-in shirt that i often wear. At home this looks like i'm channeling East German factory workers, taking the prescribed elements of official socialist dress (functionality, not-too-showy, but with a small amount of denim allowed to appease the masses) and placing them within the Australian fashion discourse. The resulting look is a bit retro, different and unusual, a bit 70's and feminine yet assertive at the same time.
(Shit with that sentence I should work for Anna Wintour. Hell, I should BE her: I have a bob, am known to be rude in the morning and have big sunglasses.)
Whereas in Germany, I just look like everyother middle-aged shop worker. Not quite the same look that I was going for. Especially when people tell me I was meant to start at 9 when I go to the supermarket.
P.S. it's nice to be back in the English-speaking world. Not least because the English, unlike some of their EU counterparts, can actually dress (and UK customs quizzed ME on arrival in Terminal 5!).