safari romper, and other horrors

i ask questions frequently enough that i might as well go ahead and go all seinfeld on this one:

what's the deal with global traveller chic? i mean, i understand that occasionally your luggage gets stolen and you have to buy a vaguely dress-like thing from a souk for forty eight cents, and then you end up spending the next five weeks in it because it turns out you ALSO ended up in possession of a controlled substance at said souk and spent the rest of your vacation, plus some, in a scary foreign jail. but must we buy such things, for $35, in america, to wear about in the summer? really? hint: no one really believes you've been on an exotic vacation; they know you've been here the entire time because your horrible fake ethnic clothes continually catch enough attention to remind them of your presence. it's also probably worth noting here that white people look absolutely ridiculous in dashikis at least 99.9% of the time, and i wish more of them would realize this.