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What should Barack Obama wear on Inauguration Day?
Style Drama ^ | Dec 15th, 2008 | Style Drama

Posted on 12/15/2008 8:09:49 AM PST by Mister Ghost

We had a sneak pic of the gowns Michelle Obama’s might wear on Inauguration Day, and now we have sketches of Barack Obama’s clothing. Though it’s a known fact that Obama will attire himself in a Hart Schaffner Marx single-button, notch-lapel tuxedo for the evening festivities on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, that didn’t stop WWD from asking men’s designers what they thought the new president should wear on his historic day. While most designers offered classic tuxedos, Savile Row’s Richard James pushed the envelope with a sequined tuxedo jacket. Obama in a sequined tuxedo jacket would have created a stir!

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.thefashiontime.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: americanpresident; barackobama; bho2008; bhoinauguration; fashion; inaugurationday
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1 posted on 12/15/2008 8:09:50 AM PST by Mister Ghost
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his dashiki and kente cloth


2 posted on 12/15/2008 8:10:58 AM PST by oblomov (The America of the Founders is dead; we live in a troubled age, but history will remember the brave.)
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To: Mister Ghost

Orange jump suit?


3 posted on 12/15/2008 8:11:09 AM PST by rahbert
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4 posted on 12/15/2008 8:11:15 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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Orange...


5 posted on 12/15/2008 8:11:33 AM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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What should Barack Obama wear on Inauguration Day?

Handcuffs.

6 posted on 12/15/2008 8:11:42 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: bcsco

Stripes


7 posted on 12/15/2008 8:11:59 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Mister Ghost

A suit, both empty AND invisible.


8 posted on 12/15/2008 8:12:29 AM PST by BobbyT
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I suppose a zuit suit would be out of the question.


9 posted on 12/15/2008 8:13:30 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Mister Ghost

I am sure it will be tacky and low rent.


10 posted on 12/15/2008 8:14:03 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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11 posted on 12/15/2008 8:14:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
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an asterisk (ala Barry bonds)


12 posted on 12/15/2008 8:15:51 AM PST by This_far
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I don’t think the justice system uses them anymore. They seem to be into more highly colorful attire. Don’t want to lose track of where the perps are, do we?


13 posted on 12/15/2008 8:15:57 AM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: Mister Ghost

The real problem is that nobody is willing to tell the Emperor about his LACK of clothing.


14 posted on 12/15/2008 8:16:24 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Americans should lead America, its the right way.)
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He (Hussein) can wear a turban and she can wear a burka


15 posted on 12/15/2008 8:16:44 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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Stripes! Vertical black and white.


16 posted on 12/15/2008 8:16:59 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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17 posted on 12/15/2008 8:17:07 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: Mister Ghost

Notice the collar ... it is a “European spread collar” ... and with PEBO in office, we will indeed be spreading for the Europeans...


18 posted on 12/15/2008 8:17:45 AM PST by ikka (Brother, you asked for it!)
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And, of course, get sworn in on:
19 posted on 12/15/2008 8:18:41 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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handcuffs and leg irons!!!


20 posted on 12/15/2008 8:20:55 AM PST by dalereed
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