"That's not a knife..."

I don't think Australians are meant to like the film Crocodile Dundee - well, sure, it broke all sorts of box office records as a hugely successful Australian flick, but we're at least meant to view it with a sense of irony. No one actually believes there are Aussie blokes out there like Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee, right? Anyway, it seemed an unlikely source of style inspiration when I came across it on television a couple of months ago. Yet, somehow, Linda Kozlowski's character - a New York journalist named Sue - really rocked walkabout chic in the Australian outback!

She arrives in Australia's Top End with a flourish, decked in a safari hat and long white scarf like Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen. Then she unrolls with her sleeping bag the coolest casual clothes - high-waisted khaki culottes and bodysuits, headscarves, the cute athletic NYCG singlet and cut-offs, and that bathing costume. Back in NYC, the costuming gets a bit too 80s. But in the Australian outback, Sue certainly outshines all those crocs...