To be honest, this one was more for us than for you all. We’ve had little luck finding good places to shop for clothes in Kyiv, which goes a long way toward explaining why most of our office dresses like bomzh.
Alas, our readers let us down a little bit, as participation sagged to an all-time low for this one. Could it be most our readers dress like bomzh, as well?
Fortunately, what our readers lacked in practical suggestions they made up for in clever responses.
Get a load of what this wiseguy wrote is the best women’s clothing store: Chicago Club Tailors Unlimited.
In case you’re wondering, this was the same guy who, a few weeks back, offered up this legendary quip for Kyiv’s best taxi service: “The guy in the beat-up 12-year-old Lada … who charges you Hr 2 for a drive from Arizona BBQ to Chicago Club.”
We’ll protect this guy’s identity because we love his letters so much. But if you really want to know who he is, go to Chicago Club and chances are he’ll be there coughin’ up a Jackson for his next extemporaneous flesh dance.
Our man also had an idea for the best men’s boutique: The Kyiv Limited Clothing For Nudists Store. I might have gone with “Grape Smugglers are Us,” but pretty funny nonetheless.
Meanwhile, we’re not sure if it’s the same guy doing this to us every week, but we never fail to get a response from somebody who hates everything. This time the town cynic was virtually the first one to respond: “They all sucks,” he huffed.
Yeah? Well so does your English, buddy.
One man suggested that “an aeroplane to London is the best idea.” We suggest you learn to spell before you take an airplane anywhere. Doesn’t matter if that’s how the British spell it; it’s still wrong.
While our male readers can rarely resist a wisecrack, our female readers are usually pretty square. Yet this week a local female fan launched a satirical barb of her own: “Self-made production.”
She gets an “A” for effort, but “self-made production?” Can you be more awkward? Consult your local English grammar book and try again next time.
As to who won this week’s contest, the results were a bit ambiguous. We asked readers to pick a best men’s outlet and a best women’s outlet. But some people didn’t want to play by the rules and just blurted out a retailer without specifying which category it fell into.
There’s little question Hugo Boss won the men’s contest. And on the women’s side, it was the Grand Gallery barely eking out the competition.
Alas, Argo Trading actually received more overall votes than either one of them. But its votes were split among the men’s and women’s categories, and a handful were unspecified.
Still, being popular among such a wide demographic range is indeed an accomplishment, so we hereby bequeath Argo as the winner of this week’s Readers Poll.
Results
(Overall votes)
1. Argo Trading
2. Hugo Boss
3. Grand Gallery
Others receiving votes:
Faust, Altima, Troll, Pepe Lesera,
Morgan, TsUM, Petrivka Market,
and Volodymyrsky Market
