Politicians like Barack Obama can look so boring, day in day out wearing the same suits, so for a change, have a look at these world leaders in traditional costumes!
The above photo of Barack Obama, taken before a gala dinner in Kuala Lumpur last week, got us thinking.
The US president somehow managed to pull off pairing a traditional songket shirt with a Fitbit Surge smartwatch, but many other western leaders lack Obama’s panache.
Especially when it comes to ponchos.
(Apec summit in Santiago, Chile, 2004)
The George W Bush era was a bit of a golden age for silly shirts.
(Apec summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006)
Just to be clear, there’s nothing silly about traditional Vietnamese ao dai silk tunics. Only when people like this wear them:
U.S. President George W. Bush (L) speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, wearing Vietnamese ‘ao dai’ silk tunics, during the official photograph for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Hanoi November 19, 2006.
We don’t really know how anyone gets any work done at Apec summits.
(Apec summit in Lima, Peru, 2008)
Maybe this is the real reason they get together in the first place.
(Apec summit in Shanghai, China, 2001)
To be fair to Bush (ha!), he wasn’t the first…
(Apec summit in Bogar, Indonesia, 1994)
… and nor was he the last.
(Apec summit in Beijing, China, 2014)
(Apec summit in Beijing, China, 2014)
Even the British royal family can’t escape from unusual clothing. Look at the Queen Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry wearing traditional Maori garb in New Zealand.
But the Maori costumes don’t come anywhere close to this:
What a time to be alive.
How do these figures compare with the fashion sense of some Nigerian leaders?
Former president Goodluck Jonathan looks a little awkward in this navy suit…
But current President Muhammadu Buhari looks very dapper in a tux!
Governor Theodore Orji of Abaia state certainly has an interesting taste in hats…
And we love the style of Nigeria’s first female governor Aisha Alhassan!
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