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« A buffalo stampede | Main | Red-faced conspiracy theorists » Friday, September 22, 2006The hip MideastThe prolific liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias has a pretty fantastic post about the hip fashion sense of the president of Iran, whose duds stood out among the gathered stuffed shirts this week at the UN. Earlier this year, Thomas Meaney wrote a fine dissection of Saddam Hussein's sartorial choices during his war-crimes court appearances for Slate. Meaney suggested there were some tactics in play: suit and necktie to establish himself as a legitimate partner in the world community, a caftan (or dishdasha) to court the Islamists. Posted by Evan Hughes at 09:30 AM
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