Obama started that fashion trend. Mao was copying HIM!
Posted on 06/25/2013 11:50:26 AM PDT by drewh
Move over first lady Michelle Obama: It's your husband's turn as the nation's fashion icon.
Paul Trible, co-founder of Richmond, Va.'s Ledbury premium shirts, tells Secrets that the snappy dress shirts favored by President Obama that feature a wider "mid-spread collar" or full "spread" have prompted a sales spike especially among politicians and reporters eager to copy his more youthful look.
"He's a trend setter, that's fair when it comes to political clothing trends," said Trible, son of former Virginia Republican Sen. Paul Trible.
Trible, the face of the maker of high-end shirts popular among politicians including Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and former Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, said that Obama's preference has brought a sales slide for the standard was a button-down or downward pointed collar.
"Obama was one of the first politicians to challenge that with a mixed-spread or spread collar on a national stage," said Trible. "After he was elected, you saw it slowly happen in Washington where sort of that spread collar shirt became more and more popular, first with the Democrats and now even a large proportion of the Republicans are doing that over the traditional point or button down."
"He's a lean, fit guy so if suits him well. He certainly wears it well and I think people notice that it it's catching on around town," said Trible, who called Obama's shirts the leading trend in male fashion. "When you get to that level in politics, no matter if you are male or female, people are putting a lot of thought into what you are wearing and the statement that it makes."
As for those who prefer old-school button downs, Trible said, "they are not dead, but people more and more wear them on a casual basis than with a tie."
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yep ... take a slow ride.
Maybe Paul Trible has a Larry Sinclair crush on Obama.
I refuse to wear any dress shirts other than oxford cloth button-downs.
LOL!!!
hahahahahaha
The desperate msm is trying every trick in the book to bolster their piece-of-excrement savior, zero.
If that ugly (inside and out) toilet swirler is a fashion icon, then Helen Thomas is a beauty queen.
Kennedy:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. "
Obama:
"Obama was one of the first politicians to challenge that with a mixed-spread or spread collar on a national stage," said Trible. "After he was elected, you saw it slowly happen in Washington where sort of that spread collar shirt became more and more popular, first with the Democrats and now even a large proportion of the Republicans are doing that over the traditional point or button down."
That cat really knows how to dress. Black suit, blue tie. Looks like a halfrican undertaker.
These people make me want to throw up!
I noticed only one time but that was when Obama’s tie got caught in Putin’s zipper.
My wife says that doesn’t count!
Obama started that fashion trend. Mao was copying HIM!
"ME? AN ICON???"
We’re a couple of hours west of Richmond, but the Obama look is catching on here in central VA, as well. All the fags are rushing out to buy purple lipstick and paste-on facial warts.
“Icon” meaning a fake symbol for something real - OK, makes sense.
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