Gift of the garb

August 28 2006, Wajir, Kenya: US Senator Barack Obama is dressed as a Somali elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan during his visit to Wajir, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. Obama's campaign team have accused Hillary Clinton's staff of circulating the photo of him as part of a smear operation Photograph: EPA

November 19 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam: George Bush and Vladimir Putin, both wearing Vietnamese ao dai silk tunics, take part in an official photograph for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP

January 13 1997, Pakistan: The British prime minister John Major shakes hands with an elder of the Afridi tribe, while wearing a traditional Pakistani turban presented to him by tribesmen in the northwestern region of Landi Kotal Photograph: B.K. Bangash/AP

April 4 2008, Ahmadabad, India: Bill Clinton wears a garland and traditional Gujarati turban. The former US president had been visiting earthquake-affected areas of the Indian state to raise funds for victims Photograph: Siddharth Darshan/AP

November 21 2004, Santiago, Chile: Bush and Putin again, this time wearing Chilean ponchos for the official photo session at La Moneda presidential palace during an earlier Apec summit Photograph: Tim Sloan/AFP

November 3 2006, Nurek, Tajikistan: The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in traditional Tajik dress Photograph: Peer Grimm/PA

September 14 2003, Sambalakro, Ivory Coast: The French interior minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, in a local Baoule outfit, is greeted by village women Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP

June 15 2004, London, UK: Ken Livingstone, on the election trail in Newham, visiting the Ramgarhia Sikh temple Photograph: Rex