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Mnuchin Money Leather-Glove Photo Sure Does Tell Some Story About Smirking
Ira StollWhat is it about that photograph of the U.S. Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and his wife, Louise Linton, holding a sheet of dollar bills that has so captivated America's journalistic elites?
The chief fashion critic of the New York Times, Vanessa Friedman, fingered Ms. Linton's black leather gloves. "Black leather, after all — unlike, say, brown leather — is one of the most emotive sartorial symbols in the wardrobe, imbued with a host of cultural and historical associations for almost everyone," Ms. Friedman wrote. "It is the de facto outfit of villains everywhere, from generic Nazis with their black leather trench coats to Hermann Goering's black leather boots, The Terminator (Version 1), Darth Vader, and assorted Disney witches."