FT on Johnson’s image at the G7 ‘a schoolboy busting into the classroom 10 minutes late, trailing rumpled papers’
Image matters in the modern, highly visual, world and the Financial Times fashion correspondent has cast an eye over the dress sense of the leaders attending last weekend’s G7 meeting in Cornwall. If you have access the whole thing is on-line (paywalled).
As the convenor of the Beard Liberation Front I of course agree that image is important. It was good to see one beard at the G7, that of Justin Trudeau though the FT was more interested in his hair.
Critical comments were appropriately reserved for Johnson.
The FT notes that he: ‘even by his own disarrayed standards (looked) downright strange. His trousers are so large they make him look knock-kneed, and they appear to be falling down. The jacket fits like it’s borrowed from a hard-drinking uncle. His collar doesn’t want to lay down on his chest, and one cuff is sticking out erratically’
They summarise this as Johnson conveying ‘the feeling of a schoolboy busting into the classroom 10 minutes late, trailing rumpled homework papers. Clothes are fundamentally diplomatic. They show other people that we made an effort on their behalf’.
Indeed, but as we know Johnson has other matters on his mind, usually related to himself not how he appears to others.
I think BJ considers his appearance carefully.. He thinks he looks bumbling and honest. A hard worker, someone whose mind is on a higher plane. But hellfire, he is doing his best.
All lies, he’s a swine.
Yes, Sandra. Exactly what you said.