Pose combat
Did you miss Boris Johnson? No ? Too bad for you. On Sunday January 22, more than four months after leaving Downing Street, the former British Prime Minister reappeared, to everyone’s surprise, in Ukrainian lands. After visiting the towns of Borodianka and Boutcha, heavily affected by the fighting, Johnson headed for kyiv, where President Volodymyr Zelensky and a fine line-up of photographers were waiting for him. Because, as often, the image of the meeting counted here more than the meeting itself.
Popular layers
For his return to Ukraine, Boris Johnson has not given up on this crumpled inelegance that has become, over time, a trademark. That day, in kyiv, he had put on over his navy suit a quilted jacket whose origin betrays the low level of refinement. It was in 1965 that a certain Steve Gulyas invented this piece made of a layer of polyester and two layers of waterproof Nylon. At the time, this former colonel of the US Air Force liked to wear it for his hunting parties or outings with his huskies. The garment will even inherit the name “husky jacket”.
Breathless
It goes without saying that the stylistic path proposed here by Boris Johnson is intellectual nonsense and aesthetic aberration. A husky jacket, by definition casual and sportswear, does not match a suit. As proof, his suit jacket which pitifully protrudes from the whole… Let us also specify for the sneaky minds that if it had been shorter and had not protruded from the husky jacket, the problem would not have been settled anyway. On top of everything else, Boris Johnson allegedly just wore a suit jacket that was too short.
The crux of the problem
Under said husky jacket, we can see the rest of Boris Johnson’s outfit. This one wears a sky shirt probably cut, at the sight of the fall of his collar, in a vulgar oxford fabric. It is punctuated by a green silk tie largely degraded by a knot neither done nor to be done. If the choice of a simple oven in hand is the right one, it appears turned the wrong way, offering everyone the unenviable spectacle of its imprecision and its glaring lack of effort. A successful tie knot is always dense and tight, the exact opposite of what we can see here.
military success
Facing Boris Johnson, Volodymyr Zelensky wears his usual clothes as a president at war. In detail, he wears tactical pants from his favorite brand, 5.11, as well as a sweatshirt (which, as a useful reminder, is pronounced “swete”, not “swite”) embroidered with the Ukrainian trident, a stylized representation of a falcon gyrfalcon swooping down on prey. In the end, the head of state appears more presentable here than the former prime minister. Which isn’t surprising: Boris Johnson is always the worst-dressed person in the picture.
