This week there was yet more indignation and amusement in Dublin when it was revealed that in 1991 Mr Haughey had spent IR£16,000 ($21,800) of other people's money on shirts hand-made in Paris.
And he has been ridiculed by the entire nation for his vanity and high-living shenanigans; in 1991, it turned out, he spent nearly $22,000 on shirts, hand-made in Paris, courtesy of the public purse.
Wall Street's white-shoe bankers had long looked down on Mozilo, the mortgage banker from Los Angeles, with his gold necklace, white-collared shirts, hand-tailored suits, and fancy cars.
People in Disney polo shirts handed out bottles of water, as did what appeared to be Christian and Muslim clerics.
As we passed through the entrance door, laboratory employees wearing blue "Summer Sundays" shirts handed us informational sheets.
One inmate, he said, would testify that he was ordered to burn a sack of blood-soiled shirts handed to him by Officer Rademacher after the beating.
All kinds of symbols pinned on jackets, some ridiculous swastikas, Red Brigade t-shirts, hand made knock-offs of extremely expensive Seditionaries threads fromLondon.
40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.
Consider, for example, this description of a man's shirt: "Hand painted, washed and repaired, the Karnak shirt recalls the rugged experience of excavating the ancient tombs in Egypt".
The subsequent interview saw Cage strip off his promotional Wild at Heart T-shirt, hand it to our unflappable host and conduct the rest of the chat bare-chested beneath his leather jacket.
I've designed t-shirts, hand cut fake tattoos, co-founded Tie Tuesday, and oversaw the design side of a massive company-wide app redesign.
