Kamala’s kicks, Tim’s lids, and the red ties that bind

By Deirdre Clemente

With US presidential Election Day approaching, candidates are courting voters with everything they’ve got: targeted ads, texts, taunts and stump speeches.

An overlooked aspect of electioneering is clothing, which is a silent, powerful way for candidates to tell the American public who they are.

It’s an act as old as power itself.

“Clothes, from the King’s mantle downwards, are emblematic,” wrote Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus...