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.
Really? Tell me what is the proper attire to wear to a death camp?
The last thing we want him to do is to get sick.
I doubt very much if the "dead of Auschwitz" would begrudge Vice President Cheney his warm coat.
>>>>Never bring a windbreaker to a parka fight!
Use enough coat!
He did not, it was cold and the parka was totally appropriate, nothing about his attire was the least bit lacking in respect for the dead...
I wonder if the PETA types will hyperventilate at the thought of exactly how many little baby minks (or bunnyrabbits, or whatever other little woodland creatures) it took to fashion all those fur hats...
Regards,
He looks warm .
Yeah, imagine a heart patient trying not to get sick. How provincial... </sarcasm>
Is this all the MSM has left?
The Seattle PI has just quoted the Washington Post fashion editor's coverage of a Holocaust commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
I got a kick out of that myself, I mean... is this the Oscars or a memoriam?
But appearance is PART of respect. I know it's hard for this modern t-shirt&sweats, selfishly-concerned-about-"comfort" (which I think is over-rated) society to understand, but you *show respect* by even *making* the *effort* to look good for people - any people, dead or alive, on a date or just passing by.
Leftists are usually the 1s who are most dreadfully dressed, BTW.
Didn't Robin Givhan get the hell beat out of her by Mike Tyson?
That's all I need to know.
Could be Army issue...hubby's got the same coat hanging in the closet....I wear it to shovel snow...LOL
Isn't the VP at risk for health problems due to his heart? If so, why not bundle-up in the cold? Screw the MSM and the liberal loons.
Vice-President Cheney, with his medical condition, is probably on blood thinners. He chills very easily, if that is the case.
Cheney is probably the only one listening, the rest are shivering.
I think I want to get a coat like that, looks in style.
Auschwitz was liberated by the US military and wearing a military parka was totally symbolic and very appropriate.
Not surprized.
But let us reflect on the MSM who will not miss any opportunity to criticize the Vice President at the Auschwitz remembrance, and give Ted Turner a pass for invoking Hitler against FoxNews.
Kinda sez it all, doesn't it?
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