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Fashion Leader Says Barack's The New 'Icon'
Washington Examiner ^ | | JUNE 25, 2013 AT 8:15 AM | Washington Secrets-Paul Bedard

Posted on 06/25/2013 11:50:26 AM PDT by drewh

Move over first lady Michelle Obama: It's your husband's turn as the nation's fashion icon.

Paul Trible, co-founder of Richmond, Va.'s Ledbury premium shirts, tells Secrets that the snappy dress shirts favored by President Obama that feature a wider "mid-spread collar" or full "spread" have prompted a sales spike especially among politicians and reporters eager to copy his more youthful look.

"He's a trend setter, that's fair when it comes to political clothing trends," said Trible, son of former Virginia Republican Sen. Paul Trible.

Trible, the face of the maker of high-end shirts popular among politicians including Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and former Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, said that Obama's preference has brought a sales slide for the standard was a button-down or downward pointed collar.

"Obama was one of the first politicians to challenge that with a mixed-spread or spread collar on a national stage," said Trible. "After he was elected, you saw it slowly happen in Washington where sort of that spread collar shirt became more and more popular, first with the Democrats and now even a large proportion of the Republicans are doing that over the traditional point or button down."

"He's a lean, fit guy so if suits him well. He certainly wears it well and I think people notice that it it's catching on around town," said Trible, who called Obama's shirts the leading trend in male fashion. "When you get to that level in politics, no matter if you are male or female, people are putting a lot of thought into what you are wearing and the statement that it makes."

As for those who prefer old-school button downs, Trible said, "they are not dead, but people more and more wear them on a casual basis than with a tie."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Weird Stuff
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To: South40

yep ... take a slow ride.


41 posted on 06/25/2013 12:20:06 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Vendome

Maybe Paul Trible has a Larry Sinclair crush on Obama.


42 posted on 06/25/2013 12:31:57 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: drewh

I refuse to wear any dress shirts other than oxford cloth button-downs.


43 posted on 06/25/2013 12:32:57 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!!!


44 posted on 06/25/2013 12:33:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: drewh

hahahahahaha

The desperate msm is trying every trick in the book to bolster their piece-of-excrement savior, zero.

If that ugly (inside and out) toilet swirler is a fashion icon, then Helen Thomas is a beauty queen.


45 posted on 06/25/2013 12:35:04 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: drewh
How the Dems have fallen over the past few decades.

Kennedy:

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. "

Obama:

"Obama was one of the first politicians to challenge that with a mixed-spread or spread collar on a national stage," said Trible. "After he was elected, you saw it slowly happen in Washington where sort of that spread collar shirt became more and more popular, first with the Democrats and now even a large proportion of the Republicans are doing that over the traditional point or button down."

46 posted on 06/25/2013 12:35:34 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: drewh

That cat really knows how to dress. Black suit, blue tie. Looks like a halfrican undertaker.


47 posted on 06/25/2013 12:36:45 PM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: drewh

These people make me want to throw up!


48 posted on 06/25/2013 12:38:19 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: dfwgator

I noticed only one time but that was when Obama’s tie got caught in Putin’s zipper.
My wife says that doesn’t count!


49 posted on 06/25/2013 12:42:31 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: dfwgator; Revolting cat!
If he wore a Mao Suit, his sycophants would all rush out and buy one.

Obama started that fashion trend. Mao was copying HIM!

50 posted on 06/25/2013 12:49:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: drewh

"ME? AN ICON???"

51 posted on 06/25/2013 12:54:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: drewh

We’re a couple of hours west of Richmond, but the Obama look is catching on here in central VA, as well. All the fags are rushing out to buy purple lipstick and paste-on facial warts.


52 posted on 06/25/2013 1:10:02 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: drewh

“Icon” meaning a fake symbol for something real - OK, makes sense.


53 posted on 06/25/2013 4:11:26 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: a fool in paradise

54 posted on 06/25/2013 4:34:07 PM PDT by drewh
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