Mitt Romney’s New Strategy: Stop Dressing Well
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We know Romney’s wardrobe is full of solid navy and charcoal suits, subtly-patterned tied in red and blue — the things you expect a campaigning president to wear while on a campaign. The man usually looks so presidential, in fact, that when Time put him on a cover in 2007, it said, “Sure, He Looks Like a President.” Then he lost that race and things changed: As far back as March, the eagle-eyed reporters at the LA Times noticed that this campaign was going to be different. Romney resisted neckwear for network television. He was reportedly wearing Gap skinny jeans purchased by his wife.
Now he’s reached the culmination of his de-invention. For his announcement speech, Romney showed up in a baggy tattersall shirt. His sleeves were neither rolled to his elbows or buttoned at his wrist. Instead, they were stalled on his forearms, the sort of move a man makes when he goes to roll his sleeves but gets distracted by a sandwich. Again, there was no tie. And on his waist, he chose a hokey silver-tipped belt, one that’s a bit too long, yet still manages to hold up his baggy, pleated, black pants.
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