When they’ve spent so much money on jobs for the boys and girls, can’t they spend some learning about suits and shoes?
I see that the beige ‘summer’ suits are back, and what’s worse, they’re being worn instead of and just as though they are a proper business suit.
This is the kind of suit I call a ‘Labour suit’, because we used to see a lot of those in the Golden Years, along with white or grey slip-on shoes with a basket-weave top and plain leather sides.
They had a very brief moment as daring style for men in the 1960s, but that moment never came back.
Fortunately, maroon and bottle green suits in suspect materials are no longer manufactured, because we could otherwise expect a raft of those when the electoral pretence of dressing like your target market becomes just too wearing.
What on earth was the Health Minister thinking?
If you must wear a beige or off-white hot-weather suit, make sure it’s 100% linen and unstructured, cut looser than a business suit, and worn without a tie (the tie is in conflict with the nature of that kind of suit, and its purpose). Shoes have got to be brown leather, you’ve got to have the panache to carry it off, and preferably, you’ve also got to to be on some verandah somewhere, with a large gin and lunch about to be served.
Something else – why is Franco Mercieca, an ophthalmic surgeon and parliamentary secretary for the elderly in a ministry other than Godfrey Farrugia’s (he’s with Marie Louise Coleiro Preca) showing the health minister the ins and outs of the Hyperbaric Unit? It’s neither his professional nor his political remit.
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I’m afraid we have to part ways over the tie. Then again, it is double-breasted, the man has panache by the bucket, and the suit is so beautifully cut by Messrs Turnbull & Asser it makes your eyes water.
http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Prince+Charles+Indonesia+Day+4+IISkcbH03Wgl.jpg
As will THESE shoes: http://www.keikari.com/english/wp-content/pictures/2013/04/Military_creases_on_Prince_Charles_at_Keikari_dot_com.jpg
Second image, middle photo doesn’t look like much of a suit to my untrained eyes. What are all those creases in the lower torso area? And what on earth is going on with those pockets?
Nothing wrong with the pockets. Prince Charles likes to wear the flaps on the inside. What creases on the lower torso? You mean the trousers? That’s the sign of quality fabric. Beware a suit with no creases. It cries synthetics. A man’s suits, like the man himself, should always show some creasing. It shows they have lived.
Baxxter, I was referring to the strange warping below the pocket slits in the middle picture. Is that normal? And I shouldn’t have said creases, but those waves in the fabric around the jacket buttons even when he is standing still. That jacket looks a tad too tight around the waist to me.
This beige tropical suit must be a present from Godfrey’s boss Dalli BA which he bought in Bermuda on his 24 hour trip.
He was on a charity trip anyway, so he thought majteswel dress up his assistant, the minister, with something KOOL.
A more recent pic of the new health minister
http://ptpimg.me/0q0rc8.jpg
A beige suit would look splendid on Sour Manwela. Ikun qisu ors jiggerra fin North Pole
Those maroon and bottle green suits were a veritable fire hazard … they must have been banned for safety reasons.
Where was the Minister of Gozo? Is there a message there?
It’s Labour, remember? Anything goes.
Why is Franco Mercieca, in dark suit, wearing Godfrey Farrugia’s brown slip-ons.
With an elephant in the room like Franco Mercieca and his problems, Farrugia should have put on his Bombay hat.
Uomo del Monte hej! And the Gozo minister was not invited. Bet that didn’t go down well.
And if he has to, it’s useless having the suit in linen if the shirt’s plain white cotton.
Jacket’s not bad though. better a separate though, makes him a busy, practical dude.
From the look of both politicians faces, the Minister , who is a doctor , seems that he is looking at a hyperbaric unit for the first time and Mr Mercieca is trying to impress the minister with how much he knows about hyperbaric units.
Because the twit doesn’t understand a hoot so the twat came to help him.
Why can’t we see the shoes – were they black?
I gather you didn’t see him on Xarabank ‘singing’ Fit-Tieg tan-Neputija. I switched on the TV when he was on…. the highlight of the programme.
The second photo needs a speech bubble. “Ara hi, get in that hole and stop digging.”
Where are the minister’s cuffs?
Don’t tell me he’s wearing short sleeves under that jacket.