“Esquire” asserted that the Catholic leader’s dress
reflected “a new era (and for many, renewed hope) for the Catholic Church.”
Since assuming the papacy in March last year, Pope
Francis has continually made waves in the media, less for key disruptions or
reforms in church policy, but largely because of small, more intimate and
personal gestures, many of which when leaked to the press or photographed, have
gone viral.
The magazine pointed to Pope Francis’ actions like “paying his own bill at a hotel owned by the church or washing the feet of inmates (two of whom were female) on Holy Thursday,” and added that his apparel was just one more way that he was hearkening to a new era in Catholicism.
“The black shoes and unadorned, simplistic regalia are just an
outward acknowledgement of his progressive orthodoxy,” it said.
These black shoes stood in contrast to the apparel of one of the
twentieth century’s most popular popes, said Mark-Evan Blackman, assistant
professor of menswear design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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