Donald Trump’s extravagantly long ties may be a coded message to his base
I USED TO teach at a high school that required all boys to wear ties as part of their daily uniform. One morning, a freshman named Sammy showed up with his down to his knees, so I ordered him out of the room. Sammy argued that he’d never had to wear a tie before and that he’d done his best. I pointed out that extensive lessons on tie tying had been provided during fall orientation and that most of his peers were able to wear their ties at proper length.
Sammy slinked out of the classroom but returned a few minutes later, his tie ending where every tie should, at the exact midpoint of the belt. We had no other tie-related issues that year, and I am confident Sammy wears his ties properly to this day.
Our new president clearly didn’t endure a similar lesson in his youth. Or if he did, it didn’t take. Of the many controversies surrounding the presidency of Donald Trump, one outrage that I return to constantly is his habit of wearing ties that seem to reach halfway down his thigh. Like so much else about Trump, the ties are tacky signifiers of wealth and power. But that I can handle. Their length, I cannot.
This story is from the March 03 2017 edition of Newsweek.
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