"the full Nanaimo"

Posted by ESC on January 02, 2007

In Reply to: "The full Nanaimo" Posted by Jaan de Groot on December 31, 2006

: Here is a phrase for your site.

: "the full Nanaimo"

: This refers to a man flamboyantly dressed in garish but questionnable taste.

: It comes from a man named Frank Ney, who was the major of the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia in the 1980's. He was a real character whose regular clothes used to feature white patent leather shoes and belt. After his tenure people started to refer to a man dressed to kill with ugly clothes as wearing the full Nanaimo.

That's also the "full Cleveland."