Best Dressed Dictator out of these dictators

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Option	Votes
Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya	18
Fidel and Raúl Castro, Cuba	6
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran	5
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe	5
Kim Jong-il, North Korea	1
Yoweri Museveni, Uganda	1
Than Shwe, Burma	1
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela	0
Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan	0

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 September 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)

Fidel's guerilla chic in a landslide

― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 September 2010 18:51 (fifteen years ago)

i like ahmadinejad's suits

― william buttinski's 'the disintegration snoops' (donna rouge), Friday, 17 September 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

Qaddafi takes the best advantage of the dictator's purview to wear fancy uniforms with lots of medals and stuff, as well as the charming dictatorial habit of wearing bright colors.

― sarahel, Friday, 17 September 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)

Castro, olive-green uniform and trainers is the business!

― not_goodwin, Friday, 17 September 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/100915_KimJong_slide.jpg

the 4th look here could easily be from a london street-style blog imo

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 September 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

belongs on men who look like old lesbians thread tbh

― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 September 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)

I instinctively thought "Manitoba, easy," but never mind.

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/d/dictators~~_dictators_101b.jpg

― clemenza, Friday, 17 September 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

http://cultureofsoccer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/qaddafi_fabulous.jpg

mm-hmm, girl. work.

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 September 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

mugabe been reading the satorialist

― a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 September 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

that's Qaddafi

― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 September 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)

Ha!

― not_goodwin, Friday, 17 September 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)

ha, i think he's commenting on the fact that sartorialist & mugabe both favor pocket squares

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 September 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

Qaddafi is the Dr. T (as in the 5000 fingers of, not the Richard Gere movie) of contemporary dictators

― sarahel, Friday, 17 September 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

Mugabe color coordinates. He's my pick.

― Green Manalishi (Viceroy), Friday, 17 September 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/aug2006/pinochet.jpg

― Esa-Pekka picked a pack of pickled peppers (corey), Friday, 17 September 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

my secret shame has always been how enamored I am of kim jong il's suits

― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

Castro more apt to hang out in scrubs and other suitable wheelchair attire these days.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/100915_Ahmadinejad_slide.jpg

ahmadinejad's silhouette is just.... UGH

― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

"western-style dress"

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

Always thought Ahmadinejad was a pretty suave mofo.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

it looks like he's smuggling a colony of small monkeys around his torso

― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

The potbell protruding through the J.C. Penny shirt is ga-ross.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

so boxy, maybe needs a cinch belt to accentuate his figure.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.banktrack.org/assets/pictures/niyazov-747857.jpg

RIP

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs679.snc4/61966_10150253631090051_619495050_14771927_2984679_n.jpg

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)

slight detour off-topic, have any of you seen that documentary about the king of swaziland without the king?

i wanna see it. also, his daughter has a website.

― dude (del), Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:57 (fifteen years ago)

Is Chavez really a dictator, esp compared to the rest of these guys?

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 18 September 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

ahmedinejad is def a suave motherfucker

― france bans luriqua (k3vin k.), Saturday, 18 September 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

al-Qaddafi is swagged out

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 September 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

ahmedinejad is frumpy as hell!!

dayo otm about his silhouette

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 September 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

It's like he's wearing jackets belonging to a man who is six inches taller.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 18 September 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

my answer would have been ahmadinejad until i saw those pictures. i just like when ppl don't wear ties.

― the girl with the butt tattoo (harbl), Saturday, 18 September 2010 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

Think I would prefer the look of that Burma guy if he was like wearing a knife in his head or something.

― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Saturday, 18 September 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

totally al-qaddafi

http://i51.tinypic.com/2mmikon.jpg

― los blue jeans, Saturday, 18 September 2010 23:56 (fifteen years ago)

http://i53.tinypic.com/sy9udc.jpg

― los blue jeans, Sunday, 19 September 2010 00:07 (fifteen years ago)

he is a p smooth looking dictator

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Sunday, 19 September 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

thought he would be my shoo-in due to his latter-day maradona/sai baba vibe in some of his pics, like the first one upthread, but instead i gotta go with ahmadinejad b/c i find his ill-fitting rumpled attire charming

― dude (del), Sunday, 19 September 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.cdmagic.co.uk/images/gfs51.jpg

― microtonal hall & oates (get bent), Sunday, 19 September 2010 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

[Pedant] ahmadinejad isn't actually a dictator.[/Pedant]

― Super Cub, Sunday, 19 September 2010 05:31 (fifteen years ago)

qaddafi is the most stylin out of these guys by a long shot.

long as these guyz h8 americuh they are all a-ok with me (via being an hard-left fucknut)

― max arrrrrgh, Sunday, 19 September 2010 11:58 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Can't believe Kim Jong-Il is too fashion-forward for ILX.

― seandalai, Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

xp + a million but damn I never knew how much of a bad ass Pinochet looked like. dammn!

― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Friday, 1 October 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

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