Eating in Leeds

How to be a Lazy Oaf

When Itchy heard the name Lazy Oaf, we pictured, well, a lazy oaf. You know, some huge, hairy troll type, seven feet tall on a couch, food dribbling down his chin...

Luckily for us, it turns out that Lazy Oaf is actually a clothing company with a huge (and understandably so) online following.

Although Itchy normally avoids fashion high-street stores, and weekend-shopping city-dwellers like the plague, we're going to make an exception in this case.

Why you ask? What could possibly cause us to abandon our anti-monotonous-hipster stance? Well, for one thing, the clothes may not feature pictures of lazy oafs, but they're designed for everyone's inner lazy-oaf, which, lets be fair, is a thing always worth celebrating.

The items for sale have a refreshing amount of attitude and uniqueness, rather than just the usual run of the mill, high street uniformity.

Take, for example, the 'Say Cheese' hooded sweatshirt, a black hoodie with a cartoon-type graphic of a camera. Or their sweatshirt, in black or grey, with pink writing etched out in block letters showing the world that the wearer has 'a cold robot heart'.

The robot theme seems like a slight random obsession, you can even check out their website to learn how to do the Robo Bop... just remember that you heard it here first.

Other things like sunnies, jewellery, stationary, toys, and scarves can be found too. For those of you with a love for all things retro, they also have fab vintage-inspired sundresses, and other kitschy items too, and for the fellas: don't feel left out, as there's tons of men's stuff too, with more selection, than DJ Hype's record box

Ok, fine. So we're slightly disappointed that there's no actual lazy oaf, but, for all those who don't want to look exactly like everyone else on the high street, this unique, indie-esque clothing company is worth checking out.

All those in line to do a Peter Crouch robo-dance please, and form an orderly queue.

Visit Lazy Oaf at www.lazyoaf.co.uk

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