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Gold Sneakers and Too-Tight Suits: The Menswear Guy Weighs In on Inauguration Weekend

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Inauguration weekend brought together the who’s who of right-wing players.

The older someone is, the more likely they are at least avoiding the worst of what we're seeing.

Young conservatives will often wear very shrunken suits because they care more about the tailored aesthetic.

The merchandise surrounding Trump 's movement is gold sneakers and Never Surrender T-shirts and, of course, the red MAGA hat.

The aesthetic is very much not the classic WASP aesthetic, which used to be the Republican aesthetic.

Trump 's own aesthetic comes from the 1980s —the “greed is good” of Wall Street boom times.

As a fashion trend, the Western look leans more liberal.

Conservatives dress like metrosexuals in the early 2000s and liberals dress like Bush -era conservatives.

Elon Musk does wear cowboy boots pretty frequently, as does Jeff Bezos .

There is some of this inherently on the right because it's a Midwestern look.

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