$150,000 Wardrobe for Palin

[dgriffin]

$150,000 Wardrobe for Palin May Alter Tailor-Made Image


www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/us/politics/23palin.html?ref=style


"Sarah Palin’s wardrobe joined the ranks of symbolic political excess on Wednesday, alongside John McCain’s multiple houses and John Edwards’s $400 haircut, as Republicans expressed fear that weeks of tailoring Ms. Palin as an average “hockey mom” would fray amid revelations that the Republican Party outfitted her with expensive clothing from high-end stores."

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You can certainly dress for less, but I never met a woman worth her sartorial salt who couldn't spend $150 K on herself and her large family in a high-end store. (We keep track of the retail value of clothing items given to shelters each year for tax purposes. While no where near $150K, the total is always stunning to me.) Is the Governor and vice presidential candidate supposed to look "off the rack" when meeting foreign dignataries and oil sheiks?

I've been in Saks. (Their home store is on 5th Ave., of course, but they have branches around the NY City area.) They have reasonably priced, quality clothing. Look who walks by their doors ... tourists on their way to St. Patrick's Cathedral up the street and working men and women on their way to jobs at Rockefeller Center. If Saks offered only high-end "runway" items, they'd go out of business quickly.

The thought has also occurred to me that the Palins, though certainly well-off ... and she's a Governor ... probably don't have the resources of the McCains and other aristocrats who populate the US Senate. Probably the Obamas got help with clothing and other items, too.

The Obamas are probably nice folks, unless you believe they're nefarious. (Hell, we survived the Clintons ... so far.) But I'm sure there are as many nits the press could pick with them, without help from the conservatives. Why do we see this crap played out in the media against the Republicans much more than against the Democrats?

[frankcor]

She'd look great in one of my old shirts.

[WestmoGuy]

LMAO Yeah. You got that right.

[dgriffin]

Well, I do like her defense plan. Especially the uniform.

[concerned]

Nancy Raegan and the idiot Kennedy firts lady wore some really expensive cloths. The olny one I admire was Mrs Carter---now there's a lady.

I guess when Mrs Obama gets in office she can get her cloths at there Rescue Mission; this way she can share the wealth.

[dgriffin]

Concerned, Michelle Obama's bio on Wiki includes this: "She is highly regarded for her style, demeanor, and fashion sense. She has made several appearances on various best-dressed lists and draws frequent comparisons to Jacqueline Kennedy."

Not to demean the woman ... she is obviously a cultured and accomplished lady... but I had to chuckle when I read on Wiki: "As part of her requirements for graduation (from Princeton), she wrote a thesis entitled, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." I couldn't help but think if she kicked off her research with a survey of those graduates, they would have all fit in an elevator. None of my black friends or myself ever came close to getting into Princeton.

There are a number of interesting bits of information in her Wiki entry, including the fact that she skipped the second grade and that she and Barack saw a Spike Lee movie on their first date.

Poor Sarah Palin, she will always be an outsider. Her first date with Todd was probably changing the carburetor on his snowmobile.

Maybe the women of America who don't get interviewed on television will show up at the polls in November and cast a vote for plucky females everywhere.