Shoppers in Havant were treated to an unexpected catwalk show last week, as the National Rebirth Party rolled out yet another impeccably ill-advised fashion statement. Because apparently, the far-right’s real rebirth is happening in the menswear department.
Aesthetic drift
After the ridicule, from both left and right, that greeted party leader Alek Yerbury’s aesthetic drift into a suspiciously Hitler-like appearance (toothbrush moustache, trench coat) one might have expected the movement to retire the whole “retro authoritarian chic” look.
But no. Oh, no. Here comes the next contestant!
Spotlight on Havant’s very own trench-coated hopeful, a member of NRP’s Portsmouth branch, standing stiffly behind a folding table and sporting an even more impressive, and even more retro, moustache.
Less intimidating
But it’s the coat? Oh, the coat – looking just like it was inspired by Hermann Göring’s 1930s outerwear phase, albeit without the furs, medals, or the general air of a man who slept on a pile of looted upholstery.
But where Göring used to parade around Berlin looking like someone who’d plundered a mink farm, our modern imitator is admittedly a little less ostentatious.
More central casting for a History Channel documentary filmed on a budget of £37.
