She was trashed for lying...but somehow I believe it.
“Ann Romney said a couple of weeks ago that Mitt likes to buy his shirts from Costco...the 3 for 1 pack.”
He started as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Back during my corporate career, those guys would wear good quality white button down pin-point cotton shirts.
It is possible to pay a lot, buying those shirts from prestige stores.
It is also possible to pay much less, buying essentially the same shirts after carefully shopping for price.
In other words, you didn’t have to pay Brooks Brothers prices, to have Brooks Brothers style, quality, etc.
After Romney lost his Senate bid to Fatso Kennedy we wound up at the same resort, in St. Thomas, at Christmas. They were actually in the room right next to ours. At the time we didn’t think too much about it and thought that he and Ann were nice, friendly people. Recently my son remarked that of all the places the Romneys could vacation they sure didn’t go for the most expensive. There were a lot pricier resorts on the island.
They spent their vacation there again the next year and we ran into Mitt at the airport.
I’ve seen their former home in Belmont, MA and it looks like a lovely, large family home but certainly no mansion by today’s standards
If I was a millionaire I’d still buy the Puritan shirts from Wal-Mart. They look sharp, and what, the guys in some business meeting are going to demand a look inside my shirt collar or something?