Trump's weight and absurd manner of dress are the least of our worries, but it's just one more example of how ill-suited, incompetent, and embarrassing he is on the global stage. I wish more leaders of other nation's would treat him as he deserves as an individual (as opposed doing their best to show respect for the office).
What to do about Trump’s tailoring? We asked a tailor.
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So what was the problem?
The vest, Lizio-Katzen said, is supposed to be shorter than the front of the tailcoat.
“People wear their pants much lower than they used to,” he said. “So even though a vest should be a certain length, if you wear your pants too low, then you get an unsightly gap between the pants and the bottom of the vest where your shirt shows.”
With a regular suit, that’s not necessarily a problem, because the jacket will cover the bottom of the vest. With a tailcoat, though, the front is cut shorter. The choice, then, is either a too-long vest or a visible shirt. That said, Lizio-Katzen said that this case appeared to be “exceptional” given that several inches of Trump’s vest is showing. (The jacket, he said, was properly tailored.)
Again, Charles’s tailcoat and vest are properly proportioned, perhaps in part a function of his wearing this sort of formalwear more regularly. Part of it, too, is that Charles probably wears his pants higher — a function largely of the difference in size between the two men.
“Generally people with [Trump’s] proportions wear [pants] lower, particularly in the front,” he said. Men with larger stomachs will often wear pants below their bellies. In this case, that appears to have meant the need for a longer vest.
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And on the absurdly long ties he wears
Trump’s long ties are an established part of his aesthetic by now. (He has, at least, apparently stopped using Scotch tape to hold the tail of the tie in place.)
“That’s not an acceptable length for a tie,” Lizio-Katzen said. “Nobody wears them that long.”
The tie “should be flirting with the belt buckle,” he explained. “It should be a little shorter than your belt or longer, but his is into his fly, and that’s never really the proportion.”
In his book released last year, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie wrote that Trump told him to wear longer ties, too, to look thinner. Lizio-Katzen doesn’t ascribe to that — or to the idea that heavier people shouldn’t wear horizontal stripes, or that pinstripes are slimming.
“I don’t know that our eyesight gets cheated that easily,” he said.
We asked Lizio-Katzen what advice he might offer Trump. His response was blunt.
“My advice would be go on a diet, honestly,” he said. “It’s like Chris Christie. I can’t make the suit look good on Chris Christie, either.”
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