Jeremy Corbyn’s intensely relaxed about style

Newly elected Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Parliament Square, London on 12 September 2015. Photograph: Natasha Quarmby/Rex Shutterstock

I note the comments in the media about Jeremy Corbyn’s dress code – shorts, trainers and, the ultimate sin, black socks “pulled up quite a long way”. I don’t think he has much to worry about. I’m old enough to remember Harold Wilson’s first campaign: while Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home were seen on TV hunting deer in plus-fours, Wilson was seen in a blue, open-necked shirt (horror of horrors, not even a tie!) talking about the “white heat of technology”. Guess who got elected and became PM.
Jenny Backwell
Hove, East Sussex

• As your front-page picture shows (12 September), Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign was not just about a political revolt but also a revolt of style. His organic beard and open-necked shirt are a very different image from the usual clean-shaven suit-wearers of the political establishment.
Keith Flett
London

The picture of Jeremy Corbyn that appeared on the the front page of Saturday’s Guardian. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty

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