Sneakers of the House: Canada's MPs embrace comfort, style in office footwear trend.
"Wearing of sneakers is more about breaking tradition than perpetuating it," said Elizabeth Semmelhack, director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
Next up was the emergence of the tech sector, she said, where innovators could basically wear "playground attire and be the most powerful men in the room." Lantsman's favourite sneakers are Jordan 1 Mids, which she said she gets for a cheaper price because she fits into kids' sizes.But she said clothes have the power to give people confidence."There's a new kind of politician. People wear sneakers in their lives, and showing up in the riding in a park in a suit doesn't work," said Lantsman.
Back in Ottawa, women MPs, including Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, are often seen wearing sneakers while scurrying from one meeting to another, but then switch them out for a pair of heels when the cameras are rolling. "We're in Parliament, we're appropriately wearing suits and dressing for the business that is to be done," he said.
Red sneakers were a common prop at Liberal events in the final days of that election, which ended with the Harper Conservatives securing a majority, the NDP forming the official Opposition and Ignatieff stepping down as leader."You would think that it was bad luck because I lost that election, but it then became a thing to wear red Chucks in election campaigns," said Holland, who returned to the House of Commons in 2015.
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