[lbo-talk] Suits

Chris Brooke chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Feb 7 13:51:50 PST 2005


On 7/2/05 9:48 pm, "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Been doing it for decades. I have a closet full of
> suits. I like suits. Ties. hats, even. What is this
> hippy shit with "suits are Republican"? Lenin wore a
> suit. Is there some rule that if you're a red you have
> to dress like a schlumpf?

I read somewhere that the Bolshevik politburo used to wear leather jackets, and that suit-wearing became the norm during Stalinisation.

But perhaps that was just anti-suitist propaganda.

Chris



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