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.
LOL.......I have to admit on this one Cheney did stick out like a sore thumb......I love the guy but he looked like he was ready for an Antartic Expedition
Typical leftist snobs... always concerned about superficial appearances. They don't really give one damn about paying respect for the dead.. they just want to be seen at an important event. Scum.
Petty BS. Do they have nothing better to write about? What a bunch of Clymers.
OH, please. Mr. Cheney was sitting out in the open in a freezing Polish winter.
He can wear what he damn well pleases!
Maybe the airline lost his luggage.
What's that patch on his coat, anyhoo? Something airforce, I think?
Yeah, love Chenney, but what was he thinking?
Hiking boots, too!
He does look like an ice fisherman at a funeral. :^)
The picture is kind of funny.
But I'll bet he was warmer than the guys in the black coats.
The Seattle PI has just quoted the Washington Post fashion editor's coverage of a Holocaust commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Excuse my while I spit.
He looks a heck of a lot warmner than the others do. Frankly, were I an older guy with some recent health issues I wouldn't want to "look good" out there either, I'd want to be warm. I was dressed like that for his innauguration (and Bush's) so I can't exactly complain that he dresses that way too.
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Big deal, bet he was not cold.
TS
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