The entire parliament is not air conditioned. If the temperature is lower in the half-cycle, then everything that happens there is extremely hot, notes on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, Arthur Delaporte, PS deputy from Calvados, interrogated by the LCP National Assembly, in the National Assembly. Chosen from 2 e Representatives of the constituency of this department of Normandy arrived in Bermuda shorts and a dark blue pinstripe polo shirt with a white collar.
“I am for half-wheeled polo shorts”
Almost no one wears jackets here anymore. We have to get rid of these pre-global warming dress codes, we have to change the men’s wardrobe, especially since it was men who were required to wear a jacket and tie.
continues Arthur Delaporte. (…) I think we need to think about going even further without going so far as to wear flip-flops, but our collective thinking needs to evolve. I’m all for polo shorts in the half cycle. There are very beautiful, stylish linen shorts or a Fijian skirt. The Indians have men’s skirts, this is the best we have found for air circulation.
Before entering the hemicycle, the Calvados MP put on a jacket and trousers.
“Tie!” Tie! »
The dress code at the National Assembly is strict: a jacket and tie are recommended for men. With the onset of hot weather, this rule was relaxed for work at public meetings.
The Bourbon Palace was the site of several events related to parliamentary dress. Our oldest Internet users remember the black jacket with a Mao collar (small straight collar) with the Thierry Mugler logo worn by Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, during the session of the National Assembly on April 17, 1985 (18). Opposition MPs chanted: Tie! Tie!
In 2004, UMP deputy Claude Goasguin was wearing jeans. Hervé Morin, then president of the UDF group and today president of the region, asked: I know very well that today is July 10th – vacation time for our compatriots. But can we wear such casual clothes?
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In July 2012, as Housing Minister, Cécile Duflo answered a question in Hemicycle. Her beautiful dress earned her sexist cries from the right-wing opposition benches.
A polo shirt with a striped collar can be dangerous
This polo shirt worn by Arthur Delaporte is reminiscent of the one worn by Jean-François Mattei, then Minister of Health, on August 11, 2003. We were then experiencing the deadliest heat wave in France. The minister gives a live interview at 20:00. news, wearing a black polo shirt, at his country house in Var. He is wearing a dark polo shirt, also striped on the collar… The ensuing controversy remains a textbook example of what politicians should not do in a crisis.