The Leader'S Choice Of Clothes Is A Political Declaration

A few years ago, Carl Lagerfeld, the art director of Chanel, said that only two people in the world have coats named after themselves. One is Chanel The other is Mao Zedong. All Chinese people will think that he is wrong. Is it Sun Yat sen?

This is the secret of jet lag. The Chinese have been crying for more than 100 years Chinese tunic suit In the West, it is called Mao Suit - Mao Zedong wore the Chinese tunic suit, which is world-famous.

I have never seen Mao Zedong wear a suit, but this does not mean that Mao Zedong does not pay attention to clothing, on the contrary, it means that he too knows that the leadership's clothing choice is a political declaration. It is reported that after the liberation in 1949, the central government selected a group of young tailors from the best tailors in Shanghai. They used to be tailors who made suits to make clothes for leaders in Beijing. This is the predecessor of Hongdu Garment Company.

After the Second World War, all the leaders of countries who were resistant to the West deliberately refused to wear suits in public.

Gandhi - Gandhi in our mind is basically naked. The last time he wore a suit was in South Africa, and he never touched it again after returning to India. Nehru, his successor, hardly wears suits. His coat is not an open collar, but a small stand collar, which is later called Nehru collar.

Generally, leaders of countries that became independent after World War II do not wear suits. Heads of many African countries wear colorful robes on official occasions, which must be more comfortable than suits. It was a political attitude of the former colonial leaders not to wear suits.

The anti Western attitude must be the former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. When meeting with Western heads of state, he likes to wear special military uniforms. But the colors are very pleasing, such as the sky blue and orange uniforms. When he went to Italy, he also printed a black and white photo of a Libyan poet who was shot by Italy during the Revolutionary War on the top pocket of the suit, which is very fashionable and rebellious. Qaddafi's various clothes, and those yellow or dark sunglasses, have become the symbol of dictators.

The leader's clothing is always the subject of public discussion, because an ordinary dress, an unfastened fashion button, will lead to a series of discussions, even political turmoil. For example, Castro of Cuba, who has been wearing military camouflage uniforms since World War II, aims to tell successive U.S. governments: "Come on, brother. I'm ready to kill you at any time." The new President of Venezuela also emphasizes his anti American and left-wing position by wearing red clothes for Americans.

In 2011, when Castro appeared in public after his serious illness, he was not wearing a military uniform, but was like a retired Florida grandfather, wearing a loose sportswear. Immediately, the news that "Castro is dead" and "Cuba is going to change" came out.

Leaders' clothes are always related to politics. Karzai of Afghanistan was once praised as the most fashionable leader in the world by Tom Ford, a fashion expert. Karzai always wears a long coat, which is called tunic, and no one has yet translated this word into Chinese. This coat is worn by all ethnic groups in Afghanistan, and their hats are the symbols of their respective ethnic groups. There is no reason for him to wear such clothes. After the American occupation of Afghanistan, wearing a suit will make people feel that he is a puppet, and insisting on wearing national clothes will make him easier to gain the trust of the Afghan people. Karzai's only westernization is wearing Italian leather shoes.

The fashion of "puppet" should be so particular, especially the clothes of dictators. Pinochet, Hitler and Mussolini in Chile all like to wear military uniforms. The language of military uniforms is very powerful - do you want to wear them? I don't want to beat you.

Our national leaders are all wearing suits now. Tang Zhuang made a small bubble at a meeting and disappeared immediately.

What's the point of wearing a suit? It depends on the historical meaning of suits. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the European court wore a fashionable suit called Ditto Suit. The coat was like the tuxedo now. The pants closed below the knee and there was a vest. Usually, this suit pays attention to materials. On formal occasions, it pays attention to embroidery inside and outside the suit. The more, the better. This is the ancestor of the three piece suit. The shirt with Ditto suit has no collar. A man should use a very thin scarf and tie it around his neck after several circles. Its visual effect is a little like the ruffled collar of today's women's clothing. This Weibo is called cravat in French, which also means tie in French today.

When the French revolution was chaotic, it was the beginning of the British industrial revolution. Remember that the industrial revolution was led by the fashion industry - textile machinery was born in Britain in the second half of the 18th century. Catching up with King George IV of England, he loved to dress up. Under his leadership, fashion and extravagance became popular. In addition, the fabric became cheaper and cheaper. The nobility and the emerging bourgeoisie led a decadent fashion life under the king's call.

After the death of King George IV, the famous Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne. The Queen immediately stopped the decadent fashion life, and men's suits became serious from all kinds of fancy clothes. The fabric of men's clothing is not fun, and the main emphasis is solemnity. The so-called business suit that we are familiar with today was born at the beginning of the 20th century and is worn by people doing business.

Nowadays, economic development is the first priority in national politics, and it is right to wear a suit. But the information age has come again. If the suit is the product of the industrial revolution, Hoodie, the hoodie that the Facebook boy wore when he rang the bell in the stock market, is probably the future suit. This change has come in the shop. Without a fashion obsessed George IV, men can learn from suit China has been liberated.