Perhaps we shouldn't criticise republican presidents for their chronic inability to dress up to royalist standards, or even up to gentlemen standards, for they have never received the training. Here the President of Mexico at a State Banquet given by Her Majesty, commits a major faux in the wearing of his white tie. That is, the waistcoat should never extend below the bottom of the tailcoat - egad, how embarrassingly obvious.The Queen and President Calderon of Mexico make their way to the Ball Room at Buckingham Palace for a State Banquet given by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh on the first day of a State visit by the President and First Lady of Mexico, 30 March 2009. His Excellency is wearing the insignia of an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, presented to him by Her Majesty earlier in the day. © Press Association
Nothing to do with the Mexican president. I merely want to thank you for getting rid of all of that red on the page. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteMr Calderon obviously doesn't know any better, but then would most of us? It certainly doesn't say much for his tailor though.
ReplyDeleteI would imagine that Calderon would at least make more of an effort that past presidents of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. His party (and that of his predecessor Vicente Fox), the National Action Party, had among its founders a descendant of the first Emperor of Mexico. Calderon is also a native of the same state as said Emperor; the former Kingdom of Michoacan.
ReplyDeleteYawn. You've made that criticism before, and alienated large numbers of NORMAL monarchist who have no time for your petty snobbery. Great issues of our time! Little wonder your brand of Toryism has gone the way of the Dodo bird.
ReplyDeleteSurely one would prefer the waistcoat below the coat to the gap between the waistcoat and the trouser which is all too frequent?
ReplyDeleteI say 'Well dressed your excellency"