Dresscode during Nuclear week

Kim Jong ll in pantusuit

After a week that best could be describe as Nuclear week. When North Korea decided to test nuclear warheads worth more than their annual GDP. This hostile activity has also contributed to a number of posts in newspapers everywhere on the disturbed mind of Kim-Jong II.

Monocle, naturally, sensed what was coming. Hence they featured him in the Style leaders section in the June issue.

In a nation devoted to grandeur and spectacle, to parades of immaculate marching soldiers, and immense displays of synchronised gymnastic, Nort Korean Dictator, Kim Jong Il, is the worst-dressed man in the whole country. His generals sport smart olive uniforms with characteristically broad-topped caps. His civilian aides dress in elegantly old fashioned dark suits. But whatever the occasion – the launching of a long-range rocket, the inaguration of the Supreme People’s Assembly – the man they call the “Dear Leader” inists on wearing what can best be described as a Stalinist pantsuit


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4 Responses to “Dresscode during Nuclear week”

  1. Gravatar of hman hman
    29. May 2009 at 14:32

    But where, Tyler, is Pyongyang's Savile Row?
    WE MUST KNOW.

  2. Gravatar of Jonas Jonas
    2. June 2009 at 03:42

    There is definitely no such thing as a Savile Row in Pyongyang. If you would find yourself in Pyongyang and in desperate need of a smart pantsuit I would recommend to find a private tailor.

  3. Gravatar of Jonas Jonas
    2. June 2009 at 10:42

    There is definitely no such thing as a Savile Row in Pyongyang. If you would find yourself in Pyongyang and in desperate need of a smart pantsuit I would recommend to find a private tailor.

  4. Gravatar of The world according to Brûlé « The world according to Brûlé «
    13. July 2009 at 16:16

    […] easy to mock – see this insightful piece on Kim Jong-Il’s terrible dress sense – but the amount of glossy ads in his magazines suggests he’s on to […]

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