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Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan is acting like a very badly disguised editorial writer again. On the front of Friday's Style section, she attacked Trump's fashions in Texas under the headline "Fashion crisis at the border." The headline after the article jumped inside to page C2 was "Trump's choice of attire was a disaster." Liberals love pretending that Obama's only scandal was he once wore a tan suit. But criticizing how this president dresses is easy, low-hanging fruit. It's a yawn. So Givhan has to dress up the fashion chatter with screeds about Trump's fact-mangling and fear-mongering.

FORGET the nuclear inspectors, instability in Iraq, or soaring drugs use. The hot topic in Iran these days is fashion - what women can and cannot wear. Morals police and Islamic vigilantes have launched a fierce crackdown on "improper dress", confiscating tight coats and cropped trousers from fashionable shopping centres and detaining scores of women every day for flouting the strict Islamic dress code. The code, or hejab in Persian, was imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution and requires women to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Roshanak, 27, was arrested by police and...