New Delhi, June 19 :    New Delhi, June 19:  As the President of the Republic, what will A.P.J. Abdul Kalam be wearing? A bandhgala suit or a sherwani? Maybe neither. Maybe, he will be the first Indian President to rig himself out in a suit, with long hair to boot. His first brush with the capital's media having gone off without any attacks of the foot-in-mouth disease, the sartorial taste of the would-be President is bothering some traditionalists. They insist that the 'Rashtrapati' should make all public appearances in what they call the national dress, but mean the bandhgala or the sherwani. First President Rajendra Prasad used to wear both. S. Radhakrishnan, V.V. Giri and R. Venkataraman favoured the bandhgala while Zakir Hussain, Zail Singh, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, and S.D. Sharma preferred sherwanis and achkans. K.R. Narayanan favours the bandhgala. Kalam insists on wearing blue shirts (one estimate said he has over a dozen such), usually with grey trousers and sandals. At the news conference today, he appeared in regulation blue. For his colleagues at Isro and DRDO, Kalam has already made at least one change to his wardrobe - gone are the orange trousers and rubber chappals that once used to be de rigeur. Over the past few days, Kalam's associates have been advising him to have a new bandhgala stitched for the swearing-in, but one of the brains behind the bomb with the Gita on his lips has not given any thought to it. He has also laughed off suggestions to get a 'designer suit' for the 'momentous occasion'. Kalam has a few suits in black and grey and believes one of these would suffice. He has no time to spend on thinking about clothes anyway, busy as he is meeting people and cherrypicking those who would assist him in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Before today's news conference, Kalam is believed to have been tutored by some BJP leaders. Whether the BJP is sending across some dandies to drill some dress-sense into Kalam is not known, but he does get sound advice on hairstyle. And not from those Congress leaders either who think to be a good President he needs a clear - short-cropped - head. Delhi's upmarket hairstylist, Habibs', tends to Kalam's hair. Each visit there costs anywhere between Rs 500 and 800.