No vacation from politics for Spaniards this year… At the end of May, the day after a heavy defeat for the left in municipal and regional elections, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, called for early legislative elections and called on his fellow citizens to vote in the middle of summer. So here are the Spaniards stuck in the middle of the campaign, pending the ballot on July 23.
On July 16, Pedro Sánchez organized a large rally in Barcelona, ??in front of several thousand socialist activists. He wore an all-denim ensemble that Americans would happily call a “Canadian tuxedo,” expressing their contempt for their neighbor to the north. Let’s get the truth straight though: the first man to publicly wear such an outfit was neither Canadian nor Spanish. In this case, it was the American actor Bing Crosby, star of the 1950s.
If the choice of Pedro Sánchez’s outfit had undoubtedly been carefully considered, with a desire to break the codes of the politician necessarily in costume, certain parameters had obviously not been taken into account. In the sweltering Barcelona, ??the Prime Minister displayed large halos of perspiration. Advice, therefore, to deconstructivist communicators: prefer lighter shirts, in oxford or chambray, for the same effect, less the halos.
In the ranks of socialist activists too, it was hot, very hot, on July 16. We can easily imagine it, in any case, at the sight of this man dressed in skinny jeans that are far too tight, far too short for us not to take the time to ask the following statement: if you are not a 20-year-old, 40-pound rocker with wild hair and a filthy lifestyle (unless it’s the other way around), never, ever wear skinny jeans, thank you for us, and thank you for you, most of all.
Note the presence, around this man molded in his skinny jeans, of several activists with bare legs. If this choice seems much more reasonable and easy to live with in the midst of an electoral hotbed, it obliges us to remember that the wearing of Bermuda shorts is, in the texts at least, strictly regulated. Thus, when it first appeared, in the 19th century, among English soldiers based in the tropics, and in particular in Bermuda, the rule was as follows: a real bermuda must stop 3 inches (inches), or 7.62 centimeters, above the knee, no more no less.
