KIM Jong-un has reportedly banned residents in North Korea from sporting leather-based coats — as a result of they’re copying his signature look.
The style-conscious dictator initially wore his black trenchcoat in 2019 and was sporting it final week when he appeared after returning following his longest absence in seven years.
Kim’s leather-based coat has since develop into iconic within the hermit nation the place there’s a cult of persona surrounding the despot and his vogue selections.
Initially it was the communist state’s elite who may emulate their chief as a result of solely they might afford to purchase actual leather-based coats.
Then North Korean garment makers started to import pretend leather-based to make homegrown variations.
Quickly virtually each North Korean market was promoting the coats — and earlier than lengthy many younger males have been strutting about in them.
However for the regime sufficient is sufficient and a ban is now in place as a part of a crackdown on Kim copycats.
Radio Free Asia reviews precise vogue police are patrolling the streets to confiscate the jackets from sellers and any residents sporting the look.
A supply stated: “Younger males protest, saying they purchased the coats with their very own cash and there’s no cause to take them away.
“The police reply to the complaints, saying that sporting garments designed to appear to be the Highest Dignity’s is an ‘impure pattern to problem the authority of the Highest Dignity’.
“They instructed the general public to not put on leather-based coats as a result of it’s a part of the get together’s directive to resolve who can put on them.”
The leather-based trenchcoat has additionally been worn by the dictator’s sister Kim Yo Jong, who’s purported to be his chosen successor, based on reviews.
Due to this fact it’s stated to have develop into an emblem for highly effective ladies too.
It comes after Jong-un reportedly gave mullets the chop — banning the retro coiffure together with skinny denims in a swipe at “Western decadence”.
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