The President’s fashion statement is loud and clear

Dressed in a plain Barong Tagalog, morning trouser, and comfortable-looking shoes, the 16th President of the Philippines Rodrigo Roa Duterte was ready—as he so declared—to start his work for the nation
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While there was nothing inappropriate about the new President of the Philippines’ choice of inaugural attire—his plain barong Tagalog, beige morning trousers, and what seemed from afar as reddish brown boots—it was not what the citizens of the republic have been accustomed to see in presidential oath takings of recent memory.