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.
um coughcoughredarmyitwas...
Somebody should have told him - The rest of the guys where somehow informed it's going to be a bit like a funeral and somehow about more serious issues.
Maybe Chirac told him there was a skidoo race on later ?
What is surprising is that the leftists are excoriating Cheney for his lack of fashion sense, when they should be expressing their utter outrage at all the fur present at the function.
wow....passive aggressive humor.....it was petty for putting down the VP and I did not excuse the media but read my original post #2.....I said I love the VP but have to admit he stuck out like a sore thumb and you get paranoid and read other things into it......????????....hello, it is what it is.....why don't you commment on my statement that I love the VP...are you being bias and one sided like the lefty media????????hmmmmmmm
Or the Nazis would have won.
I suppose that would have been a better result for the people in Eastern Europe, in your opinion?
Um, in defense of Norcal you all need to read ALL his posts, I really didn't get this impression from his comments. I never realized posting this article would lead to such banter! ALAS... its Friday, let's all just get along, I think we're all on the same side here lol!
That man is from Wyoming, he knows how to stay warm.
haha......lol.....see you get it......thanks, but you should read the other posts right around this one where some are getting so upset and put out....they should be mad at the media, not me.....I made not judgements at all, like you seem to understand......others see "bad people"...ouch, I actually said "I love the VP"......it is like if someone wore the wrong socks with his suit.....I ddon't judge them as a person for crying out loud, but if they are my friend I might rib them for goodness sake.......
come on the man has a heart condition - he was lucky to be there at all in a Polish Winter
sadly you are at odds with most military historians. As much as most didnt' trust the Ruskies they were our allies and if Hitler wasn't fighting 'em in the East he would have maybe won the western front. I'm more learned on the Pacific theater but many will tell you that we at times almost lost the war and if we didn't give stuff to Stalin, The Nazis would have won in the east and shifted armies to the west.......you sound like you are talking more out of hatred for the Russian. (the cold war is over) than you are from military science.....
Without our material support in '42, the Nazis might well have taken Moscow and defeated the Soviets.
With a defeated Russia and no Eastern Front to worry about, the Nazis could have invaded England and spent resources on their nuclear weapons program.
The USA might have found itself very alone in the world....
Don't worry about it, NorCalfriend! Today we seem to have a bunch of humorless puritans on board. Freepers are usually so much more freewheeling than this that I was surprised by all the negative remarks directed at you.
Actually, all this photo shows is how different Americans dress from Europeans. When I visited relatives in Sicily one time we all dressed up for an evening out. When I entered the kitchen in my typical black New York dress, the family clapped and laughed with great good humor: "La Americana!"
Oh, excuse me for mistaking your love for the VP as hate, the line between those two emotions is so very, very thin.
So what if Cheney dressed a little different than those EURO jackasses ? If he had shown up in pink leotards and a lavender sheep skin poncho and a pair of Elton John's spectacles and a blond, shoulder length wig-the media would dared be nothing but complementry.
Paranoid? Who, me? . Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't change the fact that someone may be out to get me and destroy
everything I stand for! I may be crazy, but I sure as hell ain't insane!
see,......there ya go......if I wasn't a crazy chandaler swinger sometime I think I would go nuts...if Cheney were dressed like that I would still laugh and say he stood out.....LOL....though maybe with more of a look of concern for his wife.......hehe
How do you know the people sitting next to him are jackasses?
If he had shown up in pink leotards and a lavender sheep skin poncho and a pair of Elton John's spectacles and a blond, shoulder length wig-the media would dared be nothing but complementry.
Would you still be defending his attire if he had showed up like that? Why or why not?
I am a little confused about European and American dress can you enlighten me please.
Being British I do not see much difference between how we dress and you do. The black dress for an evening out sounds perfect to me.
haha......I think most are so offended by the MSM that they jump anytime something is posted by even us Repubs that they feel alienated by.....it was the same statement I would make to a friend that wore one blue sock and one brown sock to work........buddy, I love ya, but you stand our like a sore thumb.....that is the context of what I said...innocent humor to one that I like.....
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