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.
Hey numbo, how do you know what he was wearing under the parka. Probably a dark suit, but he chose to cover it with a WARM parka. Can't you see how cold it looks out there? When I buried my son I wore every thing I could put on because it was close to -25 degrees and I don't think he minded at all that I wasn't outside in simpy evening wear instead of something warm. Get a life!
wow.......you should read all the other posts out there before attacking me for being shallow...I'll forgive you since it is Friday and no doubt you have been battling the DUmmies all week but if you read all the other posts, especially by me, I don't think you'd come to that conclusion again.......have a great weekend......
He didn't look any sillier than the guy in back of him in the hat with the fur ear muffs, though.
Not at all.....
Memo to AP-STHU!!!!!!
wow..again you show your anger........someone posted to me a question which was....." what is the proper attire to wear to a death camp"......and I responded that it was now a memorial and not a death camp anymore.....either way, if you read ALL that I wrote, not just what you want to see then you will be comforted to know I love the Veep, we were making a light joke that he stood out, which he did, and didn't not comment at all on whether he should have or should not have worn it........go ahead read my posts...
"Most horrible war ever seen."
How many wars did you witness before arriving at that conclusion?
Maybe you should read your own posts again. You might get a different slant on them, you were critizing cheney's attire as if somehow it matters. It doesn't. Maybe you posted something else but I didnt' see it. I saw two posts, both of them critical of his dress and I responded, maybe a little strongly, but with his health he doesn't need to be worried about looks as much as staying healthy. Enough said.
nope......sometimes people hear what he wanted to hear or see.....all that I said is that he "stood out"...and he did....I didn't comment at all on the appropriateness of this, or if is was bad or good.......but some here hate the press and MSM so much....like I do of course, that they get far too defensive too quickly......that is a Dem way of thinking, (not saying you) .....not a level headed Repub way of thinking....it was lighthearted teasing of the VP...nothing more, nothing less
Well, I've read about a whole hell of a lot of them. And my opinion and the general consensus seems to be this was the most horrible. If you'd like to make a case for another being worse, please do so, though that's not really the topic at hand.
Who says you can't do both?
You are so broad minded, suave and mature..Ah, how can we be more like you?
It was a pukish and petty put down of our Vice President, and you know it.
Well, I've read about a whole hell of a lot of them. And my opinion and the general consensus seems to be this was the most horrible. If you'd like to make a case for another being worse, please do so, though that's not really the topic at hand.
Well I've been in one war, and it isn't nearly known as the "most horrible war" by any accounts, but it was horrible enough for me, hell, Somalia was horrible and that wasn't even a war. ALL wars are horrible, I think trying to rank them in order of horribleness (I know this isn't a real word) is a bit trivial. Anyone who has lost a son or daughter in battle would have a strong arguement for which war was the "most horrible" to them.
Sounds to me like our V.P. was dressed for the weather while the others weren't. I hope they froze their sorry butts off while our VP was warm and toasty. This is just another attempt to downgrade and make fun of Republicans!
So, I guess when Clinton wore jeans and a t-shirt in the Oval Office and female White House staffers were wearing short skirts with no panties, that didn't matter, either?
I have a heart condition, but I am not on blood thinners. I don't know if VP Cheney is on thinners or not.
I do know that I cannot tolerate being cold. My doctor told me I couldn't stand another winter in Buffalo.
if your idea of 'showing respect' consists solely of one's appearance or attire, all I can say is mazel tov
You're absolutely right: we need to lighten up. I burst out laughing when I saw the photo. I LOVE Cheney but he looks like his mittens should be pinned to his parka!
That isn't correct at all, fdr gave the soviet Russians billions in war material that was used to facilitate communist's eastern front victory. If that war material wasn't given to the damn soviets by the commie sympathizer in the White House, who are just as evil as the Nazis, the two would have fought to a standstill and eastern Europe would have been spared Soviet occupation for forty years.
You are so broad minded, suave and mature.., oh how can we be more like you?
It was a pukish and petty put down of our Vice President, and you either know it or you are confessing to being dumb as a rock.
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