Bermuda Shorts Style
Good morning I’m David Hampshire, the English Sports Shop, Bermuda welcome to the
Store what can we do for you this morning. We have our beautiful Bermuda rugby shirts,
our wonderful cotton crested sweaters, our beautiful crested Bermuda belts. We’ve got
Bermuda perfumes, the original royal line, Bermuda motif ties, sport shirts, again crested.
Very easy, comfortable to wear and of course the most important thing is Bermuda rig as
I’m wearing, the blazer, the shorts, and the knee socks.
It all began in the beginning of the 20th Century when the British Military officers that
were stationed in Bermuda found the wearing long trousers was just too warm in this hot
climate and so they were given permission to cut off at the knees then hence Bermuda
shorts were born. The officers would look strange wearing just their shorts so it was
decided that they would wear knee socks to finish the outfit and we Bermudians, we’ve
adopted the same thing and it gives us a great formal look and it has become our national
dress and we’re proud of the fact that shorts are known as Bermudas throughout the
world.
Well let’s get down to business. Here we have the Bermuda short. I’ve laid out few of the
colors that has a formal ham in it of at least two inches. That’s actually essential to keep
the right balance and the right drape. Then we have the beautiful island colors. Look at
this yellow, coral. This coral happens to have pleats for the person that wants a little
fuller figure.
For the more conservative person, here we have khaki Bermuda blue essential another
wonderful color for weddings. We sell a lot of these for people who get married in
Bermuda shorts. Beautiful contrast between the Navy blazer and you see here a beautiful
Navy blazer with a pink and three or four inches of knee between here and the knee sock
and this is the start of a very happy marriage believe me.
And then you have could you imagine me wearing this and me wearing this? No, I don’t
think so. It’s a cut off version of a trouser so when the man or woman was going out to
dig clams she rolled out here trouser bottoms and then some bright fashinista decided
let’s cut off and make them a fashion statement and here they are. I love them on women
but on men, not in this establishment.
You can see from the array of colors that I showed you in the shorts. We also do them in
jackets and we also coordinate the ties, you’ll see that this beautiful lime green jacket.
Imagine that on a summers evening with a pair of beige or Navy shorts. The colors
basically are inspired originally from the colors of the ocean and this is why this color
here is called ocean breeze.
We have waves breaking over the reefs this one came directly from shades that we picked
up from that the Bermuda Blue is a shade that we again took from some of the swirling of
the green and the phosphorescence in the water that gave us the blue. Coral, well that
started in the same area. I mean what a gorgeous jacket that makes for the pair of navy
blue shorts, beautiful tie, great dashing look for a man, but it started out from the color of
our sand. We just took a little bit of the sand and played around with it, wonderful,
wonderful colors.
These jackets that I’ve shown you today. We coordinate them with the shorts, a Bermuda
tie and that’s what people enjoy wearing out and it is so cool to wear in this hot sunshine.
The English Sport Shop was established in 1918 and has remained in business every
since uninterrupted, very successfully. Come on over, come and visit us. I’m personally
ready to welcome you. I would be happy to see you here in Bermuda.
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