{"id":14689,"date":"2016-10-25T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2016-10-25T01:13:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:13:47","slug":"why-trumps-clothes-dont-quite-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/why-trumps-clothes-dont-quite-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s Clothes Don\u2019t Quite Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102516_0510_WhyTrumpsCl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The internet has been abuzz recently about <a href=\"http:\/\/theslot.jezebel.com\/what-is-up-with-trumps-ill-fitting-suits-a-world-famou-1787666547\">Trump&#8217;s ill-fitting suits<\/a>. John McDermott wrote that it&#8217;s not all that unusual for politicians to wear badly tailored clothes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campaigning for President is both physically demanding and full of unhealthy food at luncheons, town halls, and other community events.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, a candidate&#8217;s weight can dramatically shift from one week to the next. Have a slim-fit suit and the weight fluctuations will become painfully obvious.<\/li>\n<li>The hectic schedule also means that candidates run around a lot which leads to wrinkled clothing.<\/li>\n<li>And anyway, there&#8217;s value to not looking well dressed \u2013 it helps candidates to connect with voters.<\/li>\n<li>There are a few exceptions. JFK enjoyed looking good and would change his clothes several times a day to look fresh. Obama, too, is rarely caught looking frumpy.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile as the first female Presidential candidate from a major American party, everything that Clinton does clothing wise is groundbreaking.<\/li>\n<li>For the debates Clinton went for the tried and trusted \u2013 her clothes across the three debates were red, white, and blue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history of Presidential clothing, and how Reagan and Clinton approached it at <a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/why-politicians-insist-on-wearing-ill-fitting-suits-767f53b1b50f\">Mel Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has been abuzz recently about Trump&#8217;s ill-fitting suits. John McDermott wrote that it&#8217;s not all that unusual for politicians to wear badly tailored clothes: Campaigning for President is both physically demanding and full of unhealthy food at luncheons, town halls, and other community events. Thus, a candidate&#8217;s weight can dramatically shift from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,79],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-american-elections","tag-american-elections-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102516_0510_WhyTrumpsCl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14692,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions\/14692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}