- Sadly, money does not buy taste and Trump continues to wear that tie stuck on with tape
Gulf News
Mahmood Saberi
The main reason to impeach US President Donald Trump is because of the way he wears his tie, say people on social media. When it was done the first time, people gave him the benefit of doubt and said that a busy person like him who runs down everyone from refugees, to the handicapped to actor Meryl Streep, does not have time to adjust his signature red tie.
But a photographer caught him getting down from Air Force One with the tie flying in the breeze and horrors, you could see three strips of scotch tape again holding the skinny end of his tie.
Many fashion designers had earlier remarked about Trump’s ill-fitting suit and his jacket that he keeps unbuttoned or his ridiculous haircut and excessive bronzing.
The designers believe that clothes make a statement about you and had revamped his wardrobe virtually so that he makes a better impression on the people who elected him. Before and after pictures of the President showed how a few tweaks by the designers made him much better sartorially, and surprisingly made him look a much likeable person.
But sadly, money does not buy taste and Trump continues to wear that tie stuck on with tape.
That reminded me how I could never learn how to tie a tie at school and how the skinny end would also be longer and I had to tuck it in my trouser’s waistband. For some reason, my tie would also flop back-end forward and I had to paper-clip it through my shirt button.
After a couple of years of this the school decided to give us fake ties. They looked like the real thing and even had a fake knot and all you had to do was button it up around your neck.
As time passed by and since I could never tie a tie, it was stressful whenever there was a big do or a bash where I had to look decent even though I was a journo.
To add to my woes, my wife would gift me the most horrendous ties she could find and I had to quietly go back to the shop the next day and exchange it for silk socks or a green T-shirt with an illustration of an alligator sewn on it.
One day my wife said: “Look, I got this very pretty tie clip for you.” I wore it to the do and everyone I chatted up that evening avoided looking at it or even mentioning it. They would look at it quickly and from then on only gazed directly into my eyes or glanced over my shoulder as I chatted.
Luckily then came the era of the geeks and ties were discarded, in fact no one wore suits anymore and everyone slipped into comfy jeans and a T-shirt, even at the workplace.
Once when I wore a T-shirt to office, a colleague remarked caustically: “Washing machine conked out?” For some reason, offices in the Middle-East are like the Canadian winter wonderland and the thermostat is set at the lowest and while outside it is blazing hot and construction workers sleep under trees, you slowly turn blue as the day progresses if you are just wearing a T-shirt.
Someone then wore low-rise trousers to work that slip way, way down your waist when you sit down and I think after that day our company’s HR made a rule that casual clothing was to be worn only on Fridays when no one was at work.
Meanwhile, one magazine that writes on Style, Culture, Food and Drink and Politics notes that there are many unanswered question about Trump’s tie: “Is the road to authoritarianism paved with tape?”
The other important question the writers asks is, “How long before Trump wears only Scotch tape around his neck?”
