For heaven's sake, somebody buy this man some bespoke shirts and suits
This is the new picture that Labour’s communications chief, Kurt Farrugia, has chosen for his Facebook profile.
Most ill-advised: it perfectly illustrates the disproportionate brevity of his arms and his need to get shirts made to order (I have a similar problem with disproportionately long arms).
Kurt is an Important Man and hopes to be taken for a political visionary, as evidenced by his chosen pose. So why drag the whole thing down to the level of ridicule by having his shirt sleeves pool around his wrists and his cuffs hang halfway down his hands even when his elbows are bent and his hands are raised, a situation in which cuffs normally rise further up the arms?
Last month, Kurt was featured in The Sunday Circle magazine and all I could think of as I looked at the group photograph of him with the communications men at the other two political parties was that he looked like he had borrowed a much bigger man’s suit.
The jacket was ENORMOUS. The shoulders hung off the real shoulders beneath, the sleeves covered not just half his hands but his shirt-cuffs too (tsk tsk), and the whole thing bagged up at the front. I didn’t get a good look at the trousers because he was seated.
How hard can it be to get suits and shirts altered to fit if you can’t be fagged (reasonably) to go to the trouble and expense of getting some bespoke tailoring?
When a man looks like he is wearing somebody else’s suit, he is seriously undermined. Alfred Sant made the same mistake. His suits were always noticeably too big for him. I was always terribly distracted by the fact that his cuffs never showed and his jacket sleeves hung halfway down his hands.
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I share Kurt Farrugia’s pain. Us short-arsed barstewards are terribly self-conscious.
But you look OK in your G.I.’s.
Ah, cammies. Good, solid, dependable kit. The great Samuel Johnson once said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. Cammies are the only clothes in which even a midget might look good.
The problem with civvie suits is that either you make damn sure they fit perfectly, or you’re better off wearing shorts and flip-flops.
I read in another post that Labour supporters are being encouraged to boycott Bortex. Not a wise decision.
Ghax Marisa kellha hafna rapporti x’tikteb ghall-leader meta hadulu (gibdulu) ir-ritratt.
Enlarge the picture and increase its size.
Is he into nail biting?
He looks terribly constipated.
No, it’s that the vision to which Daphne refers is in wide screen mode.
They wear suits to fit their ego.
Remember the film ‘Little Big Man’? Think it went to this guy’s head.
He needs a bigger collar too and some collar stays. One should be able to wiggle a finger in the gap between the neck and the collar.
[Daphne – Yes, and weren’t there some kind of arm-bands which men could wear to hike up their shirt-sleeves in situations like this? Or aren’t they made anymore on the understanding that people today can afford to pay for tailoring?]
Well there you have it, Daphne, “Labour’s Elves”.
Literally.
Garden gnome, more like it.
I hate to say this – but with this sort of rubbish the PL is miles ahead of the PN in terms of PR and getting their message across. It may be a hollow message but it is currently effective. It may peter out by the time we have an election but this lack of reaction from the PN is killing me.
For a moment there, I thought he was speaking with a broken arm.
“Alfred Sant made the same mistake. His suits were always noticeably too big for him. I was always terribly distracted by the fact that his cuffs never showed and his jacket sleeves hung halfway down his hands.”
Why is it that I always looked at his hair style and overlooked the rest?
“What not to wear”. I hate this fashion police nitpicking on the choice of clothes.
Truly Daphne , do you think that a person employed with a political party on the verge of bankruptcy can afford tailor-made clothes?
He would be lucky if he got his September salary today.
Can this poor bloke look nicer than his boss who wears his watch on his shirt sleeves? If he does he will be kicked upstairs, like (white socks) Jason was.
Perhaps Joe Sanmmut will foot the bill with the remains of the Gaddafi funds~
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/2011/1006/malta-stalls-efsf-ratification-as-alfred-sant-raises-legal-objections-to-resolution
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blhitler4.htm
I’ve always wondered whether Sant got his sartorial inspiration from Adolf.