Posted on 01/28/2005 10:07:26 AM PST by Bigturbowski
OSWIECIM, Poland -- Vice President Dick Cheney's utilitarian hooded parka and boots stood out amid the solemn formality of a ceremony commemorating the liberation of Nazi death camps, raising eyebrows among the fashion-conscious.
Cheney replaced the zipped-to-the-neck green parka he sported in Thursday's blowing snow and freezing wind with a more traditional black coat - red tie and gray scarf showing underneath - for his tour of Auschwitz on Friday.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney's look at the deeply moving 60th anniversary service as "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."
"Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood," Givhan wrote in Friday's Post, also mocking Cheney's knit ski cap embroidered with the words "Staff 2001" and his brown, lace-up hiking boots. "The vice president looked like an awkward child amid the well-dressed adults," she said.
Someone should call the fashion police on her for that dress.
**But I'll bet he was warmer than the guys in the black coats.**
Absolutely
It's freezing cold. He's also sick of all those leftist whiners claiming everyone stood around and allowed it to happen. So, he dressed up as one of the ones who liberated the place, instead of like one of the ones who enabled it.
What's Cheney doing in Brainerd? Observing the rededication of the Giant Paul Bunyan. Next it's on to Fargo Fer Shure, dontcha know!
Consistency. We applaud Reagan for his respect for the oval office, by always wearing a tie, etc. Likewise, it is fair to critisize for failing to do the same. To do anything less, is to be a hypocrite.
Maybe he should have dressed like the "Jesus Clinton' when he went to Africa for his $50 million dollar photo-op/party.
If Cheney have worn the same thing as the rest of them there, they still would have found fault somehow.
Besides, those brass balls of his are probably quite chilling.
Give me a break.
Saying Dick Cheney needs to be the fashion trendsetter is the same as saying one of the Olson twins is our dietary model to follow.
Nice one
Is that a lift ticket attached to his coat zipper?
Correction: "raising eyebrows of the vacuous"
**I think I want to get a coat like that, looks in style.**
Parkas in the UK are considered high fashion actually all the youngsters are wearing them.
I think it's more an issue of protocol rather than fashion. I'm sure someone on the White House protocol staff will get a talking to about the VP's ice-fishing attire with ski boots. Oh, and the ski cap with the slogan was way over the top. Can't imagine the VP of the US would intentionally wear such a getup to a solemn ceremony. There had to be a mix-up somewhere.
Well, I'm glad I could finally be consistent. ;-)
I understand theories (and that's all they are, BTW) that Cheney may need the extra help for his health, etc. But I'm sure something could have been done - layering, wearing a NICE REAL hat over the skullcap (man those look stupid), which latter is done quite alot.
Anyway, it's not that big a deal to me, but tacitly I agree he could've looked better.
Was that ....GASP!!.... real fur around his hood???? OMG!!!
Glad to have people that "understand" - in America, no less! ;-D
You are absolutely correct. Cold weather = coronary artery constriction = death. Washington Post scum. Anyway, what business does a fashion editor have saying ANYTHING that has ANYTHING to do with the HOLOCAUST!!!!??????
Florida MD
lol........good one.....that sly old Cheney dog.....
**he wore different stuff at inaguration, probably just as cold**
It was not as cold and it was not snowing. Also the staging protected him at the Inaguration and he was not sitting for about 2 hours with freezing wind and snow blowing at him.
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