His mom jeans beg to differ.
Via Washington Examiner:
Move over first lady Michelle Obama: It’s your husband’s turn as the nation’s fashion icon.
Paul Trible, co-founder of Richmond, Va.’s Ledbury premium shirts, tells Secrets that the snappy dress shirts favored by President Obama that feature a wider “mid-spread collar” or full “spread” have prompted a sales spike especially among politicians and reporters eager to copy his more youthful look.
“He’s a trend setter, that’s fair when it comes to political clothing trends,” said Trible, son of former Virginia Republican Sen. Paul Trible.
Trible, the face of the maker of high-end shirts popular among the MSNBC’s Morning Joe team and politicians including Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and former Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, said that Obama’s preference has brought a sales slide for the standard was a button-down or downward pointed collar.