Fashion police can cop Pinochet threads

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Fancy an old dictator’s threads? The son of late Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet has put up for sale some of his dad’s former wardrobe, the Chilean daily La Tercera reports.

Pinochet’s eldest son, Augusto Pinochet Hiriart, said the collection includes ‘street clothes without historic significance: suits and old jackets that my father gave to me.’

There are none of the garishly teutonic uniforms from ‘emblematic or special moments,’ nor anything dad wore while in custody on human rights charges in London during 1998-2000.

A Santiago tailor is said to be offering the collection, discreetly. Why the son needs the cash remains unclear, since papá allegedly stashed away millions in secret funds for his family.

The infamous captain general, who died last December at 91, was finicky about his look, even ordering an extra-big hat size so his chapeau would rise above those of inferior rank.

Posted by Patrick J. McDonnell and Andrés D’Alessandro in Buenos Aires