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.
Vice president Cheney did show up in camo, asking the locals, "Can I buy me a huntin' license here?" before the protocol advisers pulled him aside.
Thank goodness a Washington post Reporter (an L.L. Bean shopper) was able to loan the Vice President this down parka before he further embarrassed himself.
Keep in mind these are the same women who support "comfortable shoes" vs fashionable shoes.
Who was the president whose ego during a freezing inauguration won him a case of pnemonia and death?
This is the best the MSM can do? He must have done EVERYTHING else correctly for this to be their best shot.
Too bad nobody put a camera on what the Mediots were wearing.
Media Clymers are really scraping the bottom of the outhouse to be using this for an administration hit piece.
And it's too bad the Nazis adopted the swastika, because it is a cool looking symbol. Damn Nazis ruining everything.
You are probably right. Some of the "Heroin Addicted" models I have seen are not too many lbs. from looking like concentration camp victims.
William Henry Harrison, but his address was an hour and forty minutes long, which could have contributed to the situation. He died a month after taking office.
"He really does look like an ice fisherman at a funeral. :^)".
Unless the Europeans have changed since I was there in the middle sixties, they do wear their Sunday, go to meeting clothes to go ice fishing as well as enroute to work and going home from their place of employment, whether they were janitors, Mayors, garbage men, Mechanics or whatever.
Remember one thing folks. The non-idiots imigrated to North America from Europe, long ago. That picture makes it pretty clear why Cheney's relatives preferred Wyoming over wherever they came from.
de jure = by law (Latin)
du jour = of the day (French)
My French is a bit rusty (as any red-stater's should be ;), but I think that's what you were going for.
Someone on the other thread said it looked like Air Force issue. Seeing as the VP was photographed wearing a black overcoat when he entered the Auschwitz museum, I'm wondering if he didn't have anything appropriate to protect himself during the outdoor ceremony and borrowed a parka from one of the Air Force pilots.
I thought the same thing earlier...I bet that's the reason.
Wrong Robin, but this one could definitely stand to have the crap beat out of her.
according to weather underground's archives, it was between 15 and 20 degrees on Thursday, with wind gusts up to 40 MPH.
with all due respect ... if you look at that picture, the others were all wearing fur. Imagine the Post coverage had Cheney dared to wear fur. The man is from Wyoming, he knows about cold. The man also has a heart condition. It is in our national interest that he stay healthy. This event went on in bitter Poland cold for two hours. VP Cheney dressed appropriately. He is probably also the only one who was there who isn't sick today. You do have to have some common sense.
But we are losing sight of the complete idiocy of the Washington Post covering what the VP was wearing at all. When you think of those poor people who were prisoners at Auschwitz and all they endured, the discussion of fashion at a memorial to them makes me physically sick.
Out of curiousity, I just looked up the weather info for Warsaw (since I don't know where in Poland Cheney actually was). The weather there is the same as it's been in Washington, DC, this week. They've had highs in the 20's and lows in the teens, with light snow.
On the other hand, Cheney doesn't sit outdoors in DC.
He was better protected from the cold last week and it was not snowing.
I'll give Cheney a pass because of his health. But you'd have have to admit that if Edwards had done this, we'd call him a wimp.
"Yeah, love Chenney, but what was he thinking?"
If I had his medical history I don't think I'd be out there taxing the old ticker with a fashionably colored but insulation light overcoat.
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