The decision to wear a tie can be a sartorial minefield for politicians and the public alike, says historian David Cannadine.
The former governor of the state of New York, Mario Cuomo,
once observed that in a modern democracy "you campaign in poetry but you
govern in prose".
Translated from speech to dress, the attire of Britain's
party leaders for the televised debates during the general election of
2010, or of the candidates currently seeking the Republican Party's
nomination, or of President Barack Obama when he goes out on the stump,
suggests that you campaign wearing an open neck shirt, but govern
wearing a tie.
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