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And the Madeleine goes to....
Posted By Graeme Dobell on January 12, 2015 @ 06:00
The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. This is a life lesson my family did not teach me, Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instill: Your hair will send significant messages to those around you. What hopes and dreams you have for the world, but more, what hopes and dreams you have for your hair. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.
It was in a checkered shirt that a mayor from Central Java walked the streets in his bid to become Jakarta’s governor. Now, after a year and a half as the capital’s leader, Joko Widodo has brought back the red-and-blue checks to run for the presidency. In a Muslim-majority country where voters are accustomed to seeing politicians wear conservative religious attire or formal, patterned textiles, the relaxed checkered shirt immediately caught the attention of young, fashion-forward Jakarta voters.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/12683864124_ea59b65ae9_z.jpg
[2] Madeleine Award : http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2009/12/21/The-Madeleine-Award-goes-to.aspx
[3] previous column: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-annual-madeleine-awards-the-oops-and-the-diana-prizes/
[4] Previous winners: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-2013-madeleine-award-part-i-abbotts-oops-moment-and-more/
[5] a specific Madeleine moment: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/maggies-maddie/
[6] demands: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/high-fashion-expense-hillary-travel
[7] This wonderful piece: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/04/female-ministers-office-space-politics
[8] once every three days: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iron-barnet-margaret-thatcher-had-118-hair-appointments-in-just-12-months-9036538.html
[9] Here’s: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/nyregion/commencements-at-yale-mrs-clinton-ponders-hair-and-politics.html
[10] check the shirt: http://blogs.wsj.com/indonesiarealtime/2014/05/28/jokowi-brings-the-checkered-shirts-back-for-presidential/
[11] a fashion statement: http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/narendra-modi-a-leader-who-is-what-he-wears/?_r=0
[12] Koala Diplomacy: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-rise-and-influence-of-koala-diplomacy-20141226-12dj2b.html
[13] already won: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-2012-madeleine-award-to-strut-signal-and-stumble/
[14] the last of the explosives: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-to-dismantle-cold-war-defences/41192328
[15] fine commentary: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/dont-do-stupid-st-has-its-virtues-as-a-foreign-policy/383865/
[16] old jest: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-diplomatic-life-its-not-all-striped-trousers-and-polite-talks/383904/
[17] confirming: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-23/us-helped-cuban-spy-impregnate-wife-by-remote-control/5985820
[18] the Umbrella Revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement
[19] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/umbrella.png
[20] World Bank Photo Collection: https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/12683864124