Shanghai is known as the "paris of asia" in some parts. I guess this conjures up images of amazingly fashionable people strolling along glamourous shopping streets wearing louis vuiton, channel etc. That is probably correct of about 5% of all people in shanghai.
The vast majority still wear some absolutely cracking fashion disasters.
The latest trend is for boyfriends and girlfriends to wear matching t shirts with realted slogans (above). One famous example is a shirt with a wallet on - the boys version reads "I make money but I don't spend no money" whilst the girls version reads "i make no money but I spend money". You also get ones that say something along the lines of "i eat the rice but I don't make the rice"/"i make the rice but i don't eat the rice" etc etc. Some have pattens that join together when the pair are walking side by side along the street. It really is alarming the amount of people that you see wearing these when you walk around on a saturday afternoon.
Of course you still get your standard "chinglish" t-shirts where they've bought a shirt thinking it is fashionable because it has some english writing on and they have no idea what it actually means ( - I guess this is no different to people in England getting a Chinese Character tattoo though when they have no idea how to read or write chinese). Two classic examples below but really have seen too many to list; one good one I saw on a girl read in big black letters "FLICK MY MAGIC BEAN"....charming.
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