Linen and cotton, cooling garments, were too plebeian; the people posed nobly for street-style social-media accounts in leather jackets and low-slung jorts.
—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
Presley electrified audiences with his suggestive hip-swiveling, long sideburns, and leather jackets.
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