I've worried multiple times whether I've missed my chance to properly and thoroughly document the sartorial choices of the self-proclaimed swag mayor. But in my defense, the mayor's indictment era brought an all-time low for his swag levels.
How do you judge the clothes and accessories of a man who defenestrated his closest friends, who was abandoned by his last remaining allies, who was reduced to grovelling on live television? I could hardly watch, much less analyze.
But as the weather has heated up, and his charges melted away like so much piss-colored snow, Eric Adams is emerging as the swaggiest he's been in years. And he has emerged with a vision for Spring/Summer 25: shirts.
It all started with a graphic tee. In early April, the mayor showed up at City Hall wearing a simple white t-shirt with "In God We Trust" and an American flag on it tucked into his slacks.
Whether there was some sort of oblique MAGA posturing going on, the mayor looked good, or at least like his clothes fit him. If I were the sitting mayor, I would have thrown a nice casual blazer in a breathable fabric like linen over it. But what do I know?
Perhaps the mayor got a little too relaxed, because he brought out a second version of the shirt a week later. Adams said it was to commemorate the clubgoers who were killed in a roof collapse in the Dominican Republic. The shirt's slogan, "in Dio confidiamo," ("In God we trust") however, was not in Spanish, but Italian.
This past weekend, Adams wore an insane shirt while attending the Persian Day Parade and then the Annual Nancy Avis L'Dor V'Dor Awards at the Jewish Community Council of Staten Island.
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