# Saddam's Snappy Dressing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767 "2005-09-21T20:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/1 "2005-09-21T20:15:45Z")
I picked up a TIME magazine today at the grocery store while waiting in line. Reading it over my peanut butter sandwich this afternoon, I noticed a large picture of Saddam (taken, I believe, during his trial). Although he seems to only have one suit (all the photos I’ve seen during the trial are the same outfit - or maybe they only allowed photos on one day), I must say, the fallen dictator (or the coalition forces providing him clothes) has some excellent fashion sense. You may disagree, but I’d say that “Dictator Casual” looks pretty smart. See for yourself: [Link1](http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/admin/pics/Former%20Iraqi%20president%20Saddam%20Hussein%20sits%20in%20front%20of%20an%20Iraqi%20judge%20in%20Baghdad.jpg) [Boo-yah!](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2004/12/15/wirq15.jpg) [I beg to differ!](http://images.ibsys.com/2004/0701/3481230_200X150.jpg) [You’ve gotta be shitting me](http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/25/xin_501101251409712267384.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/2 "2005-09-21T22:39:45Z")
What fashion sense? It’s an ordinary grey striped suit, white shirt, top button unbuttoned. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/3 "2005-09-21T22:42:32Z")
IIRC, his trial hasn’t begun yet. I see nothing wrong with the way he’s dressed. Granted I’ve never seen him dress like that before…but hey…he’s in prison eating Dorritos. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/4 "2005-09-21T23:18:44Z")
I think “you got to be shitting me” is more like “if this was 3 years ago I’d be putting the 'trodes to your 'nads” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/5 "2005-09-22T01:41:19Z")
Back in the '90s when he was giving the finger Bill Clinton, Saddam got his picture in the press as much for wearing “colorful clothes” (I read this in the Arabic newspaper _Asharq al-Awsat_, verbatim: “_albisah mulawwanah_”) as for playing geopolitical hardball. It seems he fancied himself a dandy in addition to his other “talents.” ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/6 "2005-09-22T02:13:16Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > I see nothing wrong with the way he’s dressed. Granted I’ve never seen him dress like that before… Nothing wrong at all. I’m complimenting his style (or that of the troops giving him clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-snappy-dressing/322767/7 "2005-09-22T15:01:03Z")
Well, what do you expect from a picture taken during his trial? Hell, gang-bangers who normally dress in circus-tent pants and backwards baseball caps show up at trial (if their lawyers can talk a speck of sense into them) dressed like they’re interviewing for admission to Harvard Business School.