Thursday, May 23, 2013

Lech Walesa involved in terrible sartorial faux pas

Solidarity hero Lech Walesa widely regarded as one of Poland's most famous living heroes is under fire back home - for committing the worst fashion crime of wearing sandals with socks.



"How could he shame us so" wrote Polish media this week which has devoted hundreds of column inches to the subject.

The Nobel Laureate Prize winner who helped end communism in Poland was visiting locals in Tczewie, Poland, where he was giving talks on the history of the trade union.



But the 69-year-old who was Poland’s first democratic leader raised eyebrows when he turned up in socks and a pair of sandals. "He may well have led us out of the darkness of communism, but someone should show him the light when it comes to fashion. Socks and sandals? Really?" said one social media user.

5 comments:

Brixter said...

Do they have nothing else to do over there? I wear those too.

Anonymous said...

Shame on you Brixter Shame on you

Anonymous said...

Would you rather look at skanky yellow old man toes? Yarg. He did you all a favour.

Anonymous said...

Looks fine to me. Sandals with bare feet is so 1990's.

Shak said...

It wasn't black socks he was wearing. They need to get over it.