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Guardian Fashion • Jan. 6, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
What Zohran Mamdani’s suit tells us about the man and the way society is changing
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In politics, clothes matter – as the mid-market formal wear favoured by the new, young New York mayor testifies Growing up in London in the 00s, I was surrounded by suits. On City boys darting around the Square Mile.
In Hyde Park, where Arab dads in baggy suits kicked footballs with their children in honeyed light. At school, where cheap grey suits were our uniform.
The suit has always been a costume of seriousness that signals powerfulness and performance; all the things I was apparently supposed to want if I ever intended to become a “man”. But until recently, my generation seemed to wear them less and less, and they had all but disappeared from my consciousness.
In Hyde Park, where Arab dads in baggy suits kicked footballs with their children in honeyed light. At school, where cheap grey suits were our uniform.
The suit has always been a costume of seriousness that signals powerfulness and performance; all the things I was apparently supposed to want if I ever intended to become a “man”. But until recently, my generation seemed to wear them less and less, and they had all but disappeared from my consciousness.
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