Best Dressed Statesman

[othertravel]

I've seen a few posts for best-dressed statesman (JFK, Tito, etc...), here is another one for consideration. The clothes look bespoke.Attachment 60417

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[othertravel]

More Pics...Attachment 60422

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[comrade]

Originally Posted by othertravel

I've seen a few posts for best-dressed statesman (JFK, Tito, etc...), here is another one for consideration. The clothes look bespoke.Attachment 60417

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Of course it was bespoke. There probably wan't any decent RTW in Turkey, or the rest of
Europe for that matter, at the time, 1920s, 30s.

Here's a photo of Mustafa Kemal ( Ataturk) in uniform:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...0&tx=107&ty=61

 

[jrd617]

Vox posted a bunch of Averell Harriman: http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=136604 If you're a fan of drape cut, then he's well dressed. That was one rich guy.

 

[Schwazer]

 

[doughboysc]

Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) Two time Canadian Prime Minister.

Tony Blair, ex-UK Prime Minster (1997-2007)

Prince Charles aka Prince of Wales and a bigtime Turnbull & Asser fan despite refusing to wear pink and yellow.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th US President knows style and Ivy League stuff despite family troubles and he was one of the two Kennedys to be gunned down.

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), Another gunnned down Kennedy brother. Attorney General turned US Senator from New York. Here's RFK at his final speech from June 5, 1968 before he was gunned down and died a day later in Los Angeles.

 

[Schwazer]

Kofi Annan.

 

[Stirling]

Kofi Annan.

Ridiculous, are you serious?

 

[Schwazer]



Ridiculous, are you serious?

Yes.

 

[Northampton Novice]



Yes.

Ridiculous, are you serious?

Looks as if Gandhi is in the running too then.

 

[Schwazer]



Looks as if Gandhi is in the running too then.

If you want.

 

[F. Corbera]

Tito?

 

[Torrente]



Tito?

 

[Stirling]

I must say, the man in grey, John Major was always impeccably dressed.

 

[GBR]

Bear very much in mind that nowadays politicians try to avoid looking too well dressed and thus aloof from the fodder who vote for them. The objective is to be 'one of the people' not someone who shops on Saville Row unlike voters who will never likely do so.