Colour and movement

There's just no way that any world leader looks good, or lets face it, even vaguely respectable in the sartorial horror that is the annual APEC shirt dag-off. Luckily for us, very few australian PMs have ever been trendsetters in the fashion stakes. Even the sartorial Paul Keating was subjected to the fashion faux-pas that saw recycled tablecloths being reappropriated into shirts for APEC 94 in Indonesia

Little Johny has pretty much no style whatsoever, so is in fact the perfect foil for the diverse range of disasters that constitute APEC wear down through the years

Given that it's just a few short years till we have the great honour of hosting APEC in 2007, I think we need to start putting together some suggestions as to appropriate Australian Bad Shirts. After all, it's a standing joke amongst member countries, and delegates actually feel insulted these days if they have to wear subdued or moderate fashions, like these from Brunei

I mean, come on, they're not even trying.

So it's time we scoured the back catalogs of Mambo

and perhaps put in a bid on some of Big Kevs outfits now he's no longer running his company. He's got the time and the skills to start churning out classics like this:

It's never to early to be thinking CHOGM 07. Submit your designs c/- Parliament House, Canberra