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Hallo Readers,

Those of you who keep an eye on current affairs will know that over in the US, things are somewhat schizophrenic. President 47 is covering the Oval Office with golden fronds, so that it now looks like Marie-Antoinette’s boudoir at Versailles; he is also proposing to spend $200 million of somebody else’s money (because you can bet your bottom dollar that none of it will be his own) in building a 90,000 square foot ballroom at the White House capable of seating 650 people, and which will be so blingy that foreign dignitaries will be forced to don dark glasses to avoid extreme retinal damage. Meanwhile, the so-called free plane ‘donated to the US’ by the Qataris is proving to be an expensive acquisition;  $1 billion of public funds will be spent on doing it up for security and other reasons, only for him then to waltz off with it at the end of his term of office, if indeed he chooses to leave at all. At the same time, millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare and other benefits; many thousands have been thrown out of work (including the woman who actually calculated how many people were in and out of work because the President did not like the numbers she produced); and cuts are being made here there and everywhere . All so that the billionaires, such as 47 and half his imbecilic Cabinet, can get a big fat tax cut.

In Ohio, Vice-President JD Vance celebrated his 41st birthday by going kayaking en famille on the Little Miami River. The Secret Service, who of course must accompany this foul man everywhere for his protection, ‘requested’ (i.e. ordered) the Army Corps of Engineers to increase the water flow in the river so that motorised watercraft and emergency personnel ‘could operate safely’. Which translates as the Vice President could have a lovely time birthday-bob-bob-bobbing along in his kayak. As a result, water was diverted from the Caesar Creek Lake. No one knows how much water was shifted, or what this cost. But at the time when costs and programmes are being decimated, it seems more than a little insensitive to spend so much money on a day out, True to form, Vance denies knowing anything about it, which is standard form for this lot when there is anything even vaguely to criticise. And there is a LOT to criticise.

We Brits had to put up with President 47 golfing in Scotland last week at vast expense to the US and the Scottish taxpayers. Now we have a fresh invasion on our hands, the imminent arrival on holiday of Vance, Mrs Vance, three little Vances and an entourage of Secret Service, schleppers and schnorrers various. They have chosen to holiday in the UK, including a few days at Turnberry, 47’s Golf Club and a sojourn in the chocolate-box-pretty Cotswolds, where he has taken a mansion very close to the farm run by Jeremy Clarkson who recently described him as a God-bothering twat. Because nothing says peace and quiet in a leafy Oxfordshire village than helicopters circling and huge armoured limos blocking the narrow lanes. Today, he will stay at Chevening,  the Foreign Secretary’s imposing Kent retreat. WTF was dismayed to read that David Lammy, the aforesaid Foreign Secretary, and Vance have bonded, explained as because of their working class upbringing, their family members bedevilled by addiction and their Christian faith. WTF does not know much about Lammy’s Christian faith; however, she strongly believes that a mean, manipulative, cruel son-of-a-bitch like Vance, who appears to hate anyone who is not a far-right Christian nut case devoted to the diminution of democracy and the production of as many children as possible, does not embody the principles of Christianity. The fact that he will be over here for a whole month poisoning our oxygen with his very presence and tying up the services of several police forces to enjoy his leisure time is deplorable. Vance is a strong proponent of keeping foreigners out of his country. What a pity that he and his disgusting boss cannot keep out of ours.

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We start our review of the week’s terrible togs with singers Jisoo (left) and Jennie from the girl band Blackpink at an airport somewhere going somewhere else.

Jisoo looks OK. Jennie does not. First, how can she have a conversation with someone while she is wearing her headphones? Is she lipreading? Second, why are her trackies halfway down her bum? She looks like someone who has just had a surreptitious wee-wee behind the bushes and forgotten to pull her clothes back up.

Next up, we are in Sydney for the Logies, the Aussie version of the Emmys or BAFTAs, where we encounter Australian/AmericanTV personalitee Richard Reid wearing something silly.

The hair is improbable, as is the forehead, as smooth and glossy as a billiard ball. As for the suit, he has done a Fräulein Maria in The Sound of Music and made up a suit from some richly brocaded drapes in a Victorian knocking shop.

We are now in Los Angeles where we find lovely actor Michelle Yeoh at the premiere of the Chinese animated film Nezha, now dubbed into English.  Scroll down slowly…..

That jacket was last seen on David Byrne in the 1980s. Meanwhile, Crocs should never be worn by anyone in public, and certainly not on formal occasions, even if they have been tarted up like an Oval Office makeover.

To Leicester Square in London and actor Chad Michael Murray, one of the stars of Freakier Friday, wearing David Koma.

Chad, George Michael called and he wants his hairstyle back. As for the suit, Jean Jacques Rousseau put his finger on it.

We are now back in Los Angeles for the premiere of Americana, a new western, starring actor Sydney Sweeney, wearing Danielle Frankel.

As well as displaying her splendid embonpoint at every opportunity, Sydney has made the news recently in an ad for American Eagle jeans with the slogan ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’. It shows her sprawled across a bed in tight fitting jeans. This has provoked a furore in the US with American Eagle  accused of promoting eugenics, which, to be frank, is bollocks. It is a PUN, people. Get over it. 47 then got involved and said that as he had heard Sweeney was a registered Republican, he thought that she was great. At which point, WTF decided that she had gone right off Sweeney but still thought the furore was bollocks. As is this silly dress, which makes Sydney look like a stunted, titsy bridesmaid. If she had to wear a headband, which she did not, then she should have emulated Kate Middleton’s lot and worn flowers instead of something that looks like the thing you put on at night to keep your hair out of the way of your cleansing routine.

Finally, here is singer Sam Smith hanging around in the street outside their house with a pal.

Really? If Sam wants to wear a dress, then they are free to wear a dress, but this crumpled dishrag is an absolute shocker and the scarf adds to the effect of  a washerwoman as painted by Camille Pissarro. It certainly gives a new meaning to the word ‘scrubber’.

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado Ruth from Islington, who has responded to the new summer feature ‘That’s Not Even A Thing’. Her nomination is the ridiculous strawberries and cream sandwich introduced for the summer by Marks & Spencer. I mean, look at it……  

Apparently, it is not a dessert to be found in the dessert department next to the tarte tatin and sticky toffee pudding. Rather, it is to be found in the sandwich department next to the ham and cheese and egg mayonnaise. WTF and Ruth would rather put barbed wire in their mouths than eat this excresence. Those who have tasted it reported that the first bite of sweetened bread, cream cheese and strawberrties is quite pleasant; but after a few bites, you feel as sick as if you had licked the inside of a churn of double cream.  Strawberries and cream sandwiches are Not Even A Thing. It’s Got to Go.

Ok Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your top suggestions for It’s Got to Go/That’s Not Even A Thing as well as your comments, which WTF much enjoys. You can follow her on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x