Stone apparently wanted his courtroom outfit to convey both power and innocence.
Roger Stone wants you to know that you should wear boxers — never briefs — to court.
This is just one piece of advice from Stone’s tutorial on how to dress for your day in court, in case you’re ever charged with witness tampering, obstruction of an official proceeding, and making false statements like Stone was, or are just trying to get points taken off your license.
The video, published by the conservative website the Daily Caller, includes other useful tips. If you’re trying to raise your arms in a Nixon-style victory pose, as one does after posting a $250,000 bond, you should not wear a double-breasted suit — “it doesn’t ride up properly.” Speaking of suits, don’t wear a fancy bespoke one in the first place. “It would be a little too wealthy-looking,” Stone says in the video, “and I’m dirt-poor at this point, having been destroyed financially by a two-year inquisition by Robert Mueller and his partisan hit squad.”
Stone’s Daily Caller video is clever political countermessaging disguised as a cheeky how-to guide. Stone, a longtime political consultant and former political adviser to President Trump who also runs the fashion blog Stone on Style, paints himself as a victim who has been bled dry by a “partisan hit squad.” He shows this by wearing a slightly-less-nice-than-usual bespoke suit. His shoes are custom but were made “25 years ago, when [he] could afford them,” his tie is silk (an “absolute requirement for every gentleman”), and, of course, he’s wearing a pocket square, albeit an “understated,” “pedestrian” one.
