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FiveAcres wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:18 pm **Spoiler**

The ship sank.

fierceredpanda wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:08 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:20 am Can someone like FRP, familiar with wearing suits, weigh in on what could cause those wrinkles?

I was almost completely at a loss. The theory that they're on backwards makes some small degree of logical sense, because there would be excess fabric from the seat that could bunch up if you did that. But I don't think so. So I did some experimenting in my closet.

The other thing that stuck out to me is that the trousers basically have no creases and are almost impossibly huge through the legs. (This at a time when I struggle to find suits that aren't entirely too tapered and restrictive through the thigh and below the knee.) They look more like bell-bottom jeans than suit trousers. That made a light bulb go off in my head. So here's my hypothesis:

If you're someone who doesn't really know anything about clothes beyond name brands and price tag, you probably also don't know anything about caring for your clothes. When you are President of the United States, this doesn't matter, because there is a staff of attendants who will dutifully send your suits out to be cleaned and see that they are hung properly. If you're just an asshole billionaire in declining mental health, this becomes a bigger issue. Now, a popular style of hanger for suits in the US is a regular hanger with a locking bottom piece to hold trousers in place. (I have no idea what this is called.) That needs to be used with caution, if at all. I don't use them. Why? Because if the trousers aren't completely flat on the creases when you lock the hanger, you're basically guaranteed to create ugly wrinkles across wherever they are draped, which is usually...the middle/top of the thigh. This problem is exacerbated if your trousers are cut super duper ultra full, in which case the excess fabric can bunch up easily and really get wrinkled. And it can cause the creases that are supposed to be there to vanish.

Either Trump has been mistreating this suit, or someone on what's left of his household staff couldn't be bothered to hang the trousers correctly. That's my theory. Basically he's not adjusting well to no longer being POTUS.

No, Trump Did Not Wear His Pants Backwards at Rally
You asked, so we watched the 90-minute speech.

neonzx wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:40 pm I find Ford's choice there inline with the times back then. I like em, sorta, kinda.

northland10 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:13 pm Trump sees himself as the Prince, King, Emporer, of ages past so, he's wearing a codpiece. Unfortunately, modern pants are not really made with codpieces in mind.

Now, if we must have a president pant fetish.. I present exhibit one. President Ford.

What's seen cannot be unseen.

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Maybenaut wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:25 pm There are many things I love about wrinkle-gate (or is it fly-gate, or fupa gate?). But what I love most is that nobody’s talking about what he had to say in his speech.