What did you think of KS's dress at the SoTU speech last night? Pretty wild, IMHO. Whenever the camera panned to a wide angle of the audience, you could always see where she was... it was like a big yellow flag.
Honestly - I LOVED IT. It was fun and vibrant and no more flamboyant than Gaetz’ Cobalt blue plaid suit (which I also loved). Americans are pathetically boring in their garments. MOre of this, please.
I must say that I like that attitude.
I agree.
The tradition of politicians wearing boring grey suits is a fairly recent one - it seems to have started with the industrial revolution, which made mass production of cloth and clothing a thing, and a fetishisation of homogeneity (essential for factory style production), leading to a dramatic drop off in individuality of clothing styles, particularly for men.
This was exacerbated by the Great War, which led to cloth and clothing shortages, and further pressure for men's fashion to adopt a military/utilitarian style with uniformity at its core.
But it's run its course; The 1960s and '70s saw an uptick in colour as a result of new dying and printing technologies (themselves a consequence of the technological boost given to industry by WWII), and while this was at the time embraced by men only in the counterculture, it was enthusiastically adopted across the board in women's fashion. However, politics was still very much a male preserve, and the tiny handful of successful female politicians tended to conform with the drab and boring fashions of their male peers.
It's well past time for a change. Elected politicians can and should embrace unique and colourful clothing and fashion styles. The era of uniform grey suits that mirror uniform drab military dress, showing a commitment to regimentation, conformity, and solidarity with our soldiers deployed in war zones, needs to end.
When Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married Queen Victoria of England, the newspapers of the day (as our modern press still do) spilled an ocean of ink on the details of the wedding clothes. Roughly equal space was dedicated in the major newspapers to the Prince's wedding outfit as was given over to that of the Queen.
For both of his two weddings, the current king was barely mentioned by the fashionistas; He wore his Naval dress uniform, so there was nothing novel or remarkable upon which to report.
After a hiatus of over a century, it's long overdue for politicians (including, perhaps particularly, the men) to return to being colourful and varied in their appearance. If the female politicians (whose counterparts outside politics, business and the military have largely never lost that flair) can lead the way, then that's great. But however it happens, it's time to bring back foppishness, flair, colour and style to the entire political arena (and as a corollary, to the boardrooms and offices of business, as well).
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