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Menswear expert explains photo showing collapse of Trump's weight-concealing shoulder pads

Leigh Tauss
August 12, 2024

Donald Trump is using suits with heavily padded shoulders to hide his weight — but it isn’t working, according to a menswear expert.

Derek Guy, who analyzes men's fashion for national media outlets, wrote in a thread on X that Trump’s “tailoring is done in a way to conceal his weight,” and the padded shoulders are meant to turn his rectangular figure into more of a classical V-shape.

“However, you can only extend the shoulder so much before it starts to collapse,” Guy writes. “Think of what would happen if you extended the shoulder line on a t-shirt or dress shirt—it would just flop on you.”

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Guy shared a photo of Trump’s shoulder pads caving in on themselves when the Republican presidential nominee sits down.

“The downside of a heavily padded, extended shoulder is that artifice is revealed when you sit like this. Not much you can do about this,” Guy writes. “Padded coats look great when you're standing still, but they can look artificial when you move or sit when your shoulders pitched forward.”

Trump would be better suited in a softer sloping shoulder, Guy suggests, comparing the former president’s body type to a bottle of Palmolive.

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