Figure 1. Jimmy Saville, suited
but not booted
Noun
Singularshell suit
Pluralshell suits
shell suit (plural shell suits)
A lightweight tracksuit consisting of a matching zip-front jacket and matching elasticated trousers, each having an outer nylon shell, often bearing panels and flashes of different colours, and inner cotton lining; popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s both as sportswear and as general leisurewear.
Blog dude is thinking about getting one of these from a charity shop and wearing it all the time, even in bed and everything. And at job interviews and funerals and stuff. Blog dude is old enough to have experienced the heyday of said garment, when everyone thought they were the business; one simply had to have a decent shellsuit just to avoid looking like a dick.
How fashions change, eh?
The blog dude attends a University in the north of England and thinks he would turn a few heads in a shellsuit.
