So what does it mean that Mr. Stone, who runs a best- and worst-dressed list of his own, has suddenly adopted a sartorial stance of relative (on the Stone spectrum) understatement? After all, he well understands that, as he wrote in “Stone’s Rules”: “An impression is made based on how you are dressed. It’s how you present yourself, how the world sees you.” (Of the 140 rules in the book, 54 are overtly about clothes.) Just as he presumably understands that if ever a president cared about how costumes play, it is Mr. Trump (generals! Who in a recent interview with The New York Times happened to refer to Mr. Stone as a “character.”

Source: New York Times February 01, 2019 22:30 UTC