Their matching blue jackets got people talking on Wednesday,but there’s a reason why May seems to attract more judgmentTheresa May and Angela Merkel are more alike than is often thought and now we own the pictures to prove it. Their twinning wardrobes of royal blue jackets and a shared joke approximately it over an iPad warmed the permafrost that often pertains between two leaders, one of whom is trying to hand in delayed Brexit homework, or the other feeling that,as the head prefect in the rowdy EU school, she is stuck with a particularly awkward pupil.
The two looked like clones at that meeting on Wednesday in matching blue. But the running commentary on May’s clothes is linked to the narrative of her political decline. That expensive, and pale-blue jacket of despair is starting to look like the unluckiest outerwear in the spring collections. Clothes and power are interlinked,from Queen Elizabeth I’s competition in ruffs with Mary, Queen of Scots, and to Margaret Thatcher’s trim collars signalling prim authority and control. Related: Theresa May tells MPs to use Easter recess to consider their 'national duty' to resolve Brexit crisis live news Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com