Well, to be perfectly honest, the outfits were indeed a bit 50's costume-ish, and his shoes quite hard to miss. But that's ok and it is certainly better than 90% of 'fashion' available for purchase these days. The point is that it was no big deal, but this reporter and her paper are taking mean cheap shots in public purely for political reasons. We were just kidding about it, the way families can tease about haircuts or cowboy boots. In contrast, they are being vindictively vicious, taking out their political bitterness on little kids.
Though the debate about parenting skills and choices was a whole 'nuther ballgame, that got rather ridiculous.