Just when you thought it was safe to sneak out in those baggy jeggings and unironed top on the London Underground, a new web site has popped up giving visitors a chance to critique your fashion choices.
One of the unwritten rules of the London Underground has always been that you don’t stare at other passengers which made analysing and criticising their fashion choices a little hard for wannabe Gok Wan’s – experienced users have worked out ways around this. But now thanks to small mobile phone cameras, people can take photos of “fashion disasters” and post them for others to comment on.
The site is Tubecrush.net and was originally set up as a light hearted version online of a dating quiz programme where contestants, but it soon expanded into much wider circles and is now often used for those more worried about general fashion sense than whether the anon Underground user is “hot or not”.
So next time you think about popping out onto the underground without first looking in the mirror, perhaps it would be wise to check for tucked in collars, stray hair-do’s and whether other passengers can tell if you were eating spaghetti bolognese last night.
Who knows, your mother might be reading the site and you did promise to always make sure your shirts were ironed!
Of course if you avoid the gaze of the cameras of people using this site, there are another 12,000 CCTV cameras around the London Underground, and we’re pretty sure the staff manning those cameras thought of this idea long before the students behind TubeCrush ever did.
Note: At the time of publishing, it seems the web site has collapsed presumably under all the publicity, so might be worth visiting it later on today.
London Links:
TubeCrush.net
Hotel accommodation in London
Things to see and do in London (apart from check fashion sense)
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