(Image: Private Media/Zennie) Last night some of the least fashionable people on the continent (read: journalists and politicians) frocked up for Australian politics’ night of nights: the annual Midwinter Ball in Canberra, described by one staffer as “the Oscars for ugly people”. The occasion gave the rest of us the opportunity to judge whether they were (as one young reporter overheard in an inner-Sydney pub last night put it) “serving slay”. Earlier this year, Crikey interviewed Derek Guy, editor of online menswear outlet Put This On — you might know him as the viral menswear guy on X.
The piece was so well received that we thought we would bring him back for a round-up of antipodean black tie shenanigans. We put Guardian Australia’s gallery from the event to Guy, and these were his verdicts. Anthony Albanese “It’s a strange outfit.
‘Get rid of that tie’: We asked the viral suit guy to rate and roast Aussie politicians’ fits Read More “The reason why it looks strange is because he should be wearing a bow tie — not a long tie — and he’s wearing a formal shirt, which is what he should be wearing with a dinner jacket, but there’s no waist covering, so you see the bottom of the bib. So it would’ve been a really nice outfit, if he just wore a black bow tie and waist covering.” Jim Chalmers “Look, it’s 2024.
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