Politicians and Fashion

I keep getting told off for my comments about Theresa May but I can't help feeling slightly worried by a woman who has our whole future in her hands but can't see what she looks like in a mirror. It's not as if she's stuck with cheap clothes, she spends a lot of money on them. And yes I'm just as picky about the men!

I am not specifying any style of dress, I don't have preferences, it did not bother me that the builder's clothes were a bit grubby, they had just come off site. Another builder sent their contracts manager, I can not remember what he was wearing, probably not a suit, probably a quilted jacket, but he looked and sounded as if he knew his job.

It is whether someone is dressed tidily or not and whether clothes fit. Boris Johnson always looks and sounds a shambles and from his performance as Foreign Secretary and comments about how he worked as London Mayor, he clearly is. not a man you would want to trust the country with. As for comfort, I have never worn uncomfortable clothes and both style and fashion, well chosen, can be very comfortable.

But M0nica if someone is at the top of their career and still does not dress as you prefer how do you account for that? Presentation is important to a point and as you never know how any customer/client thinks about dress always best to be as bland as possible in an attempt to please all the people all the time!!

I agree that one needs to dress appropriately for the job you do and to be comfortable. I concentrate much better when I feel comfortable.

Might liven up PMQ if more male MPs took more notice of current trends.

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/autumn-winter-18-trends-for-men

Lets face it few of the men are well dressed either.

I must say that I expect anyone in a position of authority, whether politician, doctor or plumber to look tidy and sorted dresswise when I consult them. For while I can accept that some one with a tidy exterior can hide underneath a totally disorganised mind. I cannot see how any one on top of their profession with an organised mind is going to dress a mess.

We had some builders around this week to quote for an extension. On company were represented by two, clearly hands on builders, who came to us direct from site, but they were on time and dressed in a sweat shirt with a company logo and matching jeans. They looked well organised and sounded it.

We can still be interested in what people wear as well as what they say. It behoves our MPs to look the part and leave a good impression to the rest of the world. Maybe that's an outdated view now though.

True, M0nica in fact I think Sturgeon and Merkel have the same tailor as Michael Portillo.

Women politicians and fashion are two opposites, like black and white, most seem to go in for skirts a bit too short, jackets a bit to tight and trousers that remind me of that Ogden Nash poem:
Oh deck your lower limbs in pants
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting
You look divine as you advance.
Have you seen yourself retreating?

Colours run to the garish,

I can only look at Anna and think of her as the reporter she once was on Central News or something.

I think they were making the point that they are Tories but the party is changing for the worse.

I saw Mrs. Soubry on the Andrew Marr Show some months ago, wearing a tight black lacy top with what appeared to be a fleecy top, tracksuit trousers with a stripe, and scarlet pixie boots. Her hair was bright blonde, her eyes heavily outlined, and she wore far too much red lipstick. She looked like a fugitive from the previous night's Strictly, and it was difficult to take her seriously.

Normally she dresses smartly, but what was the point of yesterday's outfit, in very obviously Tory blue?

I agree about A. Soubry.! I find her quite scary!!!! T.M is probably fairly glad to see the back of her!

And her skirt on occasions Lemon!!!! I'm also glad to see the plunging neckline has been abandoned, at least in working hours! I don't disapprove, but I felt they were a bit of a diversion! Can't imagine either on Mrs T!!

Didn’t notice what Soubry was wearing, but her facial expression always looks scary to me, as if she’s going to punch someone imminently.

Actually, I think the OP has a point, and I don’t think short jackets suit T May, even though she is tall, slim (and elegant in much of what she wears.) I always think her jackets would look much better six inches longer.

I'm nearly 70 and I love a short jacket but then very few people care what I wear!

I'm not a fan of short jackets but I notice TM is and they don't suit her at all ! Nor do her " ankle-grazer " trousers. Yes she's tall and slim but not the right shape for either I'm afraid.
Longer skirts too wouldn't go amiss to shorten her " not so good " legs as they would look more dressy. She's no chicken to be wearing above the knee skirts anyway. Okay if you've got a decent pair of pins I suppose but not in her case.
What she wears must cost a fortune so she may as well get it right.

Kittylester you are of course correct we are all judged on how we present ourselves to the outside world.

Just that I think at this moment in political time we should be more concerned in MPs actions and accomplishments than the length of women’s jackets.

Whilst, obviously, what politicians do and say is the most important thing, does no one else think how they look has a bearing on how they are perceived?

I wouldn't have a lot of faith in someone who was unkempt as I think that would show a lack of awareness of how the world operates nowadays.

They can turn up in a plastic bin bag tied up with bale strings for all care.
I judge them on their actions and politics as I do the men.

Crossover, MacCavity!

Does it matter what the women defectors wear? Are the men's outfits under discussion?

Oh dear, surly policies are more important and standing up for what you believe in. Thought JC is looking particularly dapper, cleaned up his act to go to Brussels. He obviously thinks he has a cat in hell chance.

Terri. ?

I don't care what they wear, only what comes out of their mouths. Although some might say Jezza really knows how to rock the "anorak" That's pretentious fashion talk, to indicate he wears it with panache! Of course an anorak is ideal if you are going to get down and dirty. At the allotment of course, not metaphorically

Quite maw!

Anna Soubry always looks good imo.

I like the fact that the Tory leavers all wore blue.