Go-to-hell dressing and British bad taste

[Gruto]

I read a fine article in The Rake and later found it here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christian ... 12406.html

It made me wonder if there's a connection between American go-to-hell style and British bad taste? It looks as if both aesthetics contain an affection for a vulgar or bizzare way of breaking rules, and that both aesthetics stem from the upper classes

[Luca]

"Go-to-hell" clothing items are (or, at least, were) items of clothing that make sense as part of an ensemble.

Start with a thoroughly conservative set. Replace ONE (never more than one) item with a similarly tailored (i.e., conservatively tailored) but chromatically...interesting alternative or, and this is much tougher to pull off, a normally colored but non-classically cut item.