Why Mr May looks ideally suited to be First Husband
IFirst Ladies are scrutinised on style so it’s only fair to see how the man behind the world’s newest female leader measures up, says t is unlikely that a sartorial pretty much all of them are either wallflower like Philip May ever married or widowed with Putin-bating thought he would be the Dalia Grybauskaitė, president of subject of such intense Lithuania being the only unmarried scrutiny from the British female leader. fashion police. But less than a In truth, Philip May’s “style” – his week into his wife Theresa May’s plain, uneventfully correct suits, tenure as Prime Minister, style writers bought apparently off-the-peg at at are already forensically Jermyn Street rather than made dismantling his ensembles. The bespoke on Savile Row, his white or glossy’s website unveiled the blue shirts, unpatterned silk ties and “wardrobe secrets of Britain’s new first proper, bench-made English footwear husband”, proclaiming that “Man May – engenders little examination. And does give a good suit,” and describing that’s exactly the way it should be for his collegiate spectacles as “100 per someone playing the role of a 21stcentury cent Peckham hipster”. First Husband.
There are tongue-in-cheek “His look says ‘steadfast comments elsewhere about the shoes and non-flaky’,” says and “sexy suit” he wore to Downing veteran style-watcher Street, too: “Philip elongated his pins Peter York. “More with a pair of black brogues as he importantly, his accompanied his wife to step over the inoffensive clothes – a threshold of their new home”, “a single style generally fastened button at the waist helped encouraged among show off his fantastic figure and a pale senior City people – blue tie brought out the colour of his suggest a man who eyes”, and “round glasses perched on is involved in his nose accentuated his amazing bone something less structure”. aerated and
Of course, First Wives have had to volatile than put up with this kind of scrutiny for politics.” years. So why not First Husbands? Denis Thatcher, With world politics enjoying a husband of sustained period of female leadership, Margaret Thatcher, there is certainly no shortage of First believed that Men. A global tour of parliaments consorts to prime reveals around 16 women in power – ministers should be presidents, chancellors and prime “always present, never ministers (I say around 16, because there”, and his blokeish, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff was clubbable clothing recently suspended from her duties reflected that subtle pending a possible impeachment) – principle, too. Blazer, club