Political Fashion Sense

[Guest WetDream]

Why do the political figures that set fashion trends all come from the left? Aside from the Eisenhower jacket I can't think of any modern popular fasion that wasn't derived from the left or co-opted from the right. (I remember with horror the figure I cut on the first Gay Rights march up Fifth Avenue: a camouflage suit, an oversized carved Spanish rosary and daisies in my hair. Not a pretty sight!) Think about it: there was the Nehru jacket, the Mao suit, the 60s counter-culture ensemble, the Che look.

 

Even if Osama ben Laden weren't such a rabid fanatic, his fashion sense alone should wreck him. If you are going to wear a simple dress, make it black. And a turban...might as well wear a snood!

[CT Dick]

I'm still wearing a cloth coat like Nixon popularized in his Checkers speech.

 

Fashionalby yours,

Dick

[Guest EWC]

I'm too young to remember it. What did the Eisenhower jacket look like. Perhaps with all the militancy around it might make a comeback.

[Guest 7Zach]

Wm H. Taft make it fashionable to be really fat, cuz sign of prosperity...

[+ nycman]

Here are pictures of the original "Eisenhower Jacket":

 

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/ikejack.htm

 

The museum pictures on the bottom of the page give

you the clearest image of what an Eisenhower

jacket looks like.

[Guest Stefano]

(I

>remember with horror the figure

>I cut on the first

>Gay Rights march up Fifth

>Avenue: a camouflage suit,

>an oversized carved Spanish rosary

>and daisies in my hair.

> Not a pretty sight!)

> Think about it:

 

I've been thinking about it and all I can do is laugh. It's a relief to hear that you're at least daring in the fashion sense of the word. Power To The People! LOL Love Ya! ;-)~

 

Mike ;-)~ <--M.M.O.T.