Financial Times
Jun 12, 2017 - 5 min
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Justin Trudeau's blackface and the folly of dressing up
5 mins | Oct 10, 2019
His racially insensitive choice of fancy dress has raised questions - but - why dress up in the first place? Robert Shrimsley, writing in the Financial Times, bemoans the misery of fancy dress. From the harmless but unflattering to the searingly problematic, he thinks this past-time is better off discarded.
