How politicians dress around the world 

Some politicians should just wear clown outfits, because that would definitely suit them more.

I miss the good old days when our politicians wore togas.

If politicians start looking like everyone else how are we going to know who to throw shoes at?

As a 71-year-old that leans to traditional tastes, I would like suits and ties and wingtips and blah blah blah. But it's not a hill I'd want to die on. Clothing norms have evolved all through history and it's not going to stop because of MY tastes.

2050: President Waltz wears casual shorts, some saying way too presidential

Did you know: The president of China in his free time, simply wear's a blank red t-shirt and nothing else.

I like the Andrew Yang style of dress, a suit and buttoned shirt allows you to be in a professional mindset, but no tie and no buttoned top button doesn't literally choke you

I take an approach to this similar to the one I take towards the swearing in on differing religious texts: I'd rather that the member wear/swear in on something they consider meaningful/formal. For instance Campbell coming in with full Native regalia to me is more meaningful than coming in wearing a suit, it meant he saw fit to view the institution with the same level of formal respect as his tribal institutions.

Saudi King Salman in a suit is indeed a cursed image.

In Ireland we have a MEP and former TD who mostly wears pink polo shirts and jerseys. He once even wore a pink tank top to the dáil.

It's 2170: the anarcho-primitivists have taken over and the formal clothing for parliament is preferably your body hair

In Thailand we have “tried” to replace western style suit in the 1980s, General Prem’s government promotes “chut pha ratchathan” which is some thing similar to a mandarin suit. Today sometime our cabinet will wear this instead of western style suit, but usually they will wear western style suit, most of our Male MP these day also wear western style suit, while their female counterparts have more freedom of choices.

Frederica Wilson is a Congresswoman from Florida who famously wears a sequined cowboy hat in Congress.

There is an interesting phenomenon here in Portugal where you can almost tell someone's party alignment based on the clothes they wear in terms of how conservative it is.

I'm a New Zealander. I didn't even realise we had this rule until the tie thing blew up. I am a traditionalist by nature, but I think the parliamentary male tie rule is utterly ridiculous.

The Aloha shirt is actual professional attire in Hawaii where it is considered acceptable business and smart casual wear. This garment may of propelled the casual dressing of the North American professional image and been the origin of 'casual Fridays' as post war efforts by the Hawaiian fashion guild attempted to bring acceptance of the Aloha shirt included "Aloha Friday"- where Hawaiian businesses were encouraged to wear the aloha shirt on Fridays.

WE NEED TO GET TRUDEAU IN THE WINDSOR UNIFORM

I feel like politicians should be presentable, that doesn't necessarily mean a suit but they should look smart.

I've just realised that in Australia, way *WAY* too many of our Prime Ministers (including the current one) have been regularly photographed whilst at the beach in nothing more than board shorts or budgie smugglers. It just hit me that people in other countries generally don't tend to regularly see their leaders wearing so very little...

8:42 Yughur (裕固族) and Uyghur (维吾尔族) are two distinct ethnicities. The former are predominantly Buddhist and never islamized.

Back at it again with the interesting content, JJ.

In Greece when Syriza formed goverment the MPs mostly never wear tie even the Prime Minister and it was a big controversy in the Greek public. At 4:17 this guy was the Minister of Finance and he visited his British counterpart wearing a leather jacket such as a rock star. The blacklash was enormous

Something I've noticed is that even in non-western countries where politicians always wear traditional non-western garb (like Saudi Arabia, India, Bhutan, Swaziland etc.) the military still always wears standard western-style military uniforms and decorations (although sometimes with different headgear). I don't know of any country in which the military doesn't use western-style uniforms, but maybe I just haven't found those that do.

JJ: Talks about politicians wearing more casual clothes. Also JJ: Wears the most professional shirt I have ever seen him wear.

Politicians should bring back the beard!

Just show Justin Trudeau's attire on his foreign trips and you'll see how people dress all over the world.

In Hong Kong, the suit and tie requirement was removed in 2004 when "Long Hair" Leung Kwok Hung refused to wear anything other than his signature Che Guevara t-shirt.

I like how the one video jj wears a button down shirt in is the one where he’s talking about political dress codes being relaxed throughout the world.

Vice president of Brazil, Hamilton Mourão, recently gave an Interview with no shirt, while he was doing some workouts

Andrew Yang couldn’t serve in the New Zealand parliament until recently.

In my country a musician was elected to the lower chamber, and literally wears a cape with stars and antenna in congress. He also changed his name to "little flower" (in spanish, "florcita").

For everyone's information, In India, most male politicians wear Kurtas, Pyjamas, and or a dhoti, and most female politicians wear sarees.

As a Florida Man, I appreciate the DeSantis reference. Even if I don’t agree with some of his decisions.

"the British colony of Bermuda", lmao, J.J. not even being subtle about it.

Look up Nico Semsrott, he always wears a black hoodie and jeans to the EU Parliament

As a proud member of the ambidextrous Community, our only dress code is that whatever we wear has to have two sleeves.

You always have the most interesting content, JJ.

I was very confused for a second that the Representatives in the NZ-Parliament didn't wear masks. Then I realized that they actually beat the Pandemic back in the summer.

From a Swedish perspective, it's just weird how much focus it is to wear a certain outfit. While most male politicians do wear what you shown as the traditional western outfit; dark jacket, white collar shirt, and a tie. There are still cases where they skip the tie, or skip the jacket too and only wear a button-up shirt. They can sometimes be seen wearing a bit brighter clothes with a blue jacket. The female politicians are more varied; the dark jacket isn't uncommon, but several don't wear it either. - But they change their style ever so often, so it's not possible to define any trend going on.

I woke up this morning and thought, "I could really listen to a Canadian man talk about international politics" and then I checked youtube and saw that JJ uploaded!!!

I’ve never heard the country of Kenya referred to as “Keen-ya”.

I like some formality with my politicians. They have an important job to do, so if they're going to be clowns and it do what they were elected for, at least they can make it look like they're trying to by dressing up!

One thing I love about your videos is that they give me information I never knew I wanted

6:42 President of the drip

In central Mexico (excluding the megalopolis), southern Mexico and Baja Sur politicians mostly wears dress pants or slacks and a guayabera type shirt with either long or short sleeves, it's just for climate reasons and as everyone dresses like that, it's more of a tradition because of climate rather that some ethnic statement

When the sheikh of Dubai went to the uk for the court case he wore a top hat monical and alll

I watched this tie incident transpire from the public gallery of the chamber and as an avid History and Political nerd it felt cool to know I was a witness to the very last sitting of Parliament where members were required to wear a tie. Nice to see it covered on your videos, JJ! You're one of my fave youtubers and your updates on Canadian politics/culture are very insightful.

JJ, you always come up with the most unique topics. I am always amazed by your creativity. This is a topic I never thought of, yet I found this video so informative. I didn’t know I wanted to learn these things, thank you so much!

Wow I’m so happy I follow your channel! You have such a wide array of intriguing content that encourages thought on topics we don’t typically think of! Love your creativity!

This is why I keep coming back to this channel. Quality content.

Brilliant topic. This just never occurred to me as “a thing,” but once you start on it, it’s fascinating.

When the German Greens first came into prominence in the early 80's, they pretty much made it a political statement to wear everyday clothing in the federal and regional parliaments, defying social conventions and house rules of the time. Joschka Fischer's sneakers he wore when he was sworn in as the first ever Green minister in a regional government were so iconic they actually made it into a museum. Yet the Greens soon became much more "traditional", and Fischer, very much a suit-wearer in his later career, even went on record noticing how he felt uncomfortable wearing such casual attire to a formal ceremony and that they were just doing it as a political statement of sorts.

For some reasons, in the last few years traditional clothing or clothing with traditional elements became more popular in Austria. For family gatherings, baptism, weddings etc many of the younger generation of my family started to wear such clothings. My oldest cousin however, who is around 40, only wears suit and tie on formal occasions^^

“Chinese congress” lol

I've been following your channel for years now and it still amazes me that you always have such creative and insightful videos week after week!

JJ appropriately cranking up the style for this video, the texture on your shirt looks amazing.

In the Pacific nation Samoa (where some of my family are from), a puletasi for women and a shirt and 'ie faitaga for men is considered very formal and appropriate for politicians. Men add an 'ula fala instead of a tie.

9:09 There were 3 first Korean-American female members of congress elected in 2020

I'm glad that the story about dress code in my Parliament was shown in this video, great job JJ!

Like the former president of Uruguay, I too agree that ties are a useless rag. If I never wore a necktie again, I’d be a happy person

In Hawaii aloha shirts are considered like moderately fancy attire. So you might wear it to weddings or going out to eat a fancy restaurant but for things like funerals most people would probably wear the normal western attire

This was a lot more interesting than I was expecting.

Fantastic video, JJ!! I love to learn surprising things and this video was filled with them!! Love you, and all you do!! Thanks!!

I loved this video. You are so honest and unbiased. Keep up the great work.

I think politicians should wear the colour of their parties

Sri Lankan politicians wear either one of these 3 1) A white long sleeve shirt and a white sarong 2) A western suit 3) the same while long sleeve shirt but with a trouser. For the first time in nearly 50 years, a SL leader wears a western style suit and tie

Good to you covering a story from NZ.

Very interesting thanks, always enjoy your content. 👍🇨🇦❤️

One thing I like about Nigeria is the fact that we have our own culture mixed with that of British culture. For example, our judges adopted those wigs that British judges have. The same can be said for other African judges that were once under the British empire.

So I remember even in the early 90s it was common to get dressed up to go to the movies. Not a suit but I always remember wearing a button up shirt and jeans or trousers even in the summer. Same with flying on an airplane.

there has been a QS deputy in Quebec who started to dress at the assembly with a hoodie. They banned hoodies after that.

Good topic JJ. One that I had not thought about much except one particular time. I was the Co-chairmen of the city Parks & Recreation Board. Our job was to propose and draft public policy of the parks department, naming new parks, reviewing and proposing changes to park rules, take proposed ideals regarding parks and design how they would be funded and implemented, and such. Our proposals would then be looked at by the city council, questions answered, explained or defended by me or the chairperson if need be. Then the city council would vote the item, change & such into being. I was supposed to represent the citizens of Olympia to the City Council. One of our meetings involved the naming of a new park being completed in a new housing development. Unknown to anyone on the Parks board this land used to be owned by the Nisqually Indian Tribe and had been taken in 1942 by the federal government against a very old treaty. The government built a small outpost, shipping pier and factory making explosive shells for the big guns on battleship during WW2. After the war the buildings and pier were over time demolished and an effort was made to reclaim most of the land as marsh animal habitat. This one area however somehow fell into private ownership and a neighborhood of 200 plus homes was built in 2006. As per city ordinance the developer of a project that big had to build a park and give it to the city to manage. Many members of the tribe including the Chef came to our park naming meeting A. Protesting that the land was taken and never given back. B. Members of the tribe were not given first right to purchase any of the homes. C. They wanted the park named something to honor the tribe, a member of the tribe, something to honor nature or animals or a name to signal the injustice done to them. It was all quite a shock. Every meeting from then until the park was finally named had members of the tribe dressed in traditional clothing present. Ultimately as a comprimise the park ownership went to not the city but a trust that became managed by the tribe and city and was named Peace and Unity Park. It has a playground, picnic shelter with two tables, a cooking pit, water fountain and bordering walking trail.

7:43 I know you meant in parliament but It's worth pointing out that MBS, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, wore a suit when he visited Tech CEOs like Bezos and Cook. Something I thought I'd never see. Edit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-scRSbQRVRVQ.html

picking Winston Peters for gentlemanly codes of conduct interesting choice

hello JJ, I was waiting for the whole week, now you came back with another AWARD-WINNING VIDEO.

I was very surprised to see a New Zealand politician in one of your videos! Especially the Thumbnail. Very cool you talked about us a bit!

Politicians, and everyone else, should look how they want, if people have a problem with it they can vote them out

7:49 I was drinking some water, and that almost made me do a spit-take.

I don't do politics but something about this guy, his personality and how he presents all of the information about the topics he talks about makes it super interesting to listen to.

9:56 I thought crank that was about to play

That line about Saudi Arabia is just factually wrong. Muhammad Bin Salman always dresses in a business suit when he visits America. He also wore one when he was trying to convince people to invest in Saudi Aramco.

It's simply a matter of respect, and dressing for the occasion. If someone feels that representing (or leading) their constituents is just another job and nothing special, then I have no problem with them dressing as such. Clothing styles are generally identified and described by occasion (formal wear, business attire, swim suit, casual/leisure apparel, etc) and how the wearer views said occasion. From William Shakespeare (apparel oft proclaims the man), to Mark Twain (clothes make a man) the message is hammered home. Dress for success. Or not. Ultimately the choice is yours.

Fascinating, love it!

Hi from Toronto! Thanks for making interesting content!

It is kind of interesting here in The Netherlands. There is no official dress code, but the speaker of the house of representatives does often comment on men when they don't wear a suit. It kind of creates a unofficial dress code, leaving room for people to deviate if they desire, but generally making most people dress up nice.

Really informative video. Just to clarify the Indian part a bit, the Indian ministers usually wear Khadi suits. It originated from the struggle for independence, self reliance was a big part of it. Usually khadi or the indigenous cloth making practices have been prevalent in India since hundreds of years. When the Brits arrived the shores of India, they destroyed the looms, cut the hands of the weavers. So, it was natural to use it as a symbol for the struggle for independence. And since this date, politician irrespective of any party respect that. There are only a few things that can unite all Indians, and this is one of it. Even the first draft of India's flag from early 1900s had a spinning wheel instead of the wheel. So, indeed has a deep symbolic representation:)

I go to the District of North Vancouver Council meetings and there are some who dress in the suit and tie (eg. the mayor) while some councillors who are happy to go in a plaid shirt and jeans. Only time there was any issue with their outfits was during the campaign period and several councillors were asked to take off their campaign hats.

Finland is really strict about the dress code and there has recently been a lot of talk about it, because of dress code vialations from several MP's like Sebastian Tynkkynen and Jenni Pitko.

People got dressed up for things we would never dress up for now. I have some family photos taken at Disneyland in the 1950s. All the women were wearing dresses, and the men, while not wearing ties, wore long pants (no jeans) and button down dress shirts.

Canadian politicians are the best dressed Blackface

It might be my upbringing or the fact that I am a musician and thus am used to wearing formal attire but the only times I leave my house without a suit on are to get food or go to the gym. It just feels like I am underdressed for most things if I am in casual attire. And before anyone asks I am only 17. Hell I went on a date in a suit and my girlfriend showed up in a tee shirt and tights.

Great overview. Thanks! I'm a full suit guy myself.

this is an award winning video

Let’s be real though, J.J. has got it going on 😳 solid unbiased political content coupled with that hair and facial structure? Like damn he’s the whole package 😤

I think it was an interesting question that you answered pretty well!

Extremely investing video like usual!

The Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania often wears cargo shorts to major events.

7:43 Hmmm my country is getting a lot of attention lately 😂, this is the national assembly of Kuwait 🇰🇼 ( aka The parliament )

You should do a video on "how much countries spend" like buying a ton of uniforms or all of the private transportation to mostly meaningless events etc.

Of course I saw the title and immmediately thought of Pepe Mujica with sandals! Thanks from Uruguay my dude! We really appreciate the attention lol