Donald Trump’s clothes do not fit him. This fact has not been widely noticed, which is unsurprising. In a fight for attention, his outfit was always going to come in a distant fourth, behind his bouffant, his spray tan, and whatever last tumbled out of his mouth.
Yet the clothes reward study. The shoulders of his suits are too wide by at least a size, and slump over to the side. The jackets are a solid inch too long, and billow. The trousers, through bagginess, manage to look worn out, though they are not.
Slipshod sizing does not prove that Trump is poorly dressed. For there are good clothes and bad clothes, and then there are clothes well and badly worn, which are something else altogether. The two distinctions overlap, in fact, rendering four possible modes of dress.