Posted on 05/13/2010 10:43:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Throughout history, the shortcomings of political leaders have been a depressing litany: corruption in office, sex scandals, verbal gaffes and the like. But it's rare for a politician to fall out of favor over fashion sense (or lack thereof).
Yet that seems to be the fate that history has singled out for Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. True, the beleaguered leader was already struggling in the polls, but his popularity has taken a nose dive since his appearance in public wearing a shirt that one U.S. fashion blogger described as "an item last seen whooping it up on the Arsenio Hall show." Behold AFP's photo of the shirt here — if you dare:
Hatoyama wore the multicolored monstrosity to a recent barbecue with voters. As CNN reports, the event was a tragically misguided effort on Hatoyama's part to connect with the ordinary voter. His approval rating has dropped 9 points since.
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Imagine that. He wears an ugly shirt and drops in the polls, while Brutus in the White House wears boob belts and ugly outfits that don’t fit proper and she is hailed a fashion icon. Go figure. If she had worn that shirt the media would have praised her.
I like that shirt. Guess I am not a fashionista.
He could be colorblind.
and people look at me cause I wear pink crocs...
and people look at me cause I wear pink crocs...
kimoi.
Oh dear? Don’t they have real plaid shirts over there? And pickup trucks. He needed a pickup truck!
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