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Bush family's `understated' style reflects low social profiles (fashion)
ChColumbus Ledger-Enquirer ^ | 18 January 2005 | Michael Kilian

Posted on 1/19/2005, 2:44:46 AM by Lorianne

Edited on 1/19/2005, 3:48:27 AM by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Amid all the patriotic pomp, military might, warbling celebrities and high-tech security on display here this inaugural week will be something less intangible called "the Bush style."

"The Bushes definitely have one," said longtime Women's Wear Daily and W magazine Washington correspondent Susan Watters. Yet they've maintained one of the least social profiles of recent presidents and guarded their privacy religiously - behavior some here have criticized as un-Texan.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fashion; firstlady; president; style; whitehouse
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Yeah, but they have a cool dog.
1 posted on 1/19/2005, 2:44:49 AM by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne; All

If they had a black lab or German Shepherd, I'd agree.

These little toy dogs...yuck!


2 posted on 1/19/2005, 2:47:34 AM by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Scottish terriers are definitely not "toys".


3 posted on 1/19/2005, 2:54:22 AM by wimpycat (As God is my witness, I'll never be "outraged" again!)
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To: Lorianne
In modern times, the most celebrated and influential presidential style was that of John and Jackie Kennedy, who swept aside the somewhat dowdy, '50s Republicanism of the Eisenhower administration and established their "Camelot" - noted for its white-tie and haut couture glamour and elegance, aristocratic pleasures, spirited intellectual life and refined high culture.

And the drugs, the womanizing, the corruption, the Mafia and Nazi connections...

4 posted on 1/19/2005, 2:58:11 AM by ikka
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To: Lorianne

Had the Bushes been JFK style, the leftist MSM would portray them as a silver-spoon, blue-bood family...


5 posted on 1/19/2005, 2:59:38 AM by paudio (Darn... how come the MSM doesn't have the "Report Abuse" button?)
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To: Lorianne

"I think she's Texan," referring to first lady Laura Bush, she added. "But their social life needs some help."

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The Bushes need help with their social life as much as John Kerry needs to tone down his charm.


6 posted on 1/19/2005, 2:59:50 AM by pissant
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To: Lorianne
like a Saturday shopper at a neighborhood strip mall.

Clinton all the way!

7 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:07:57 AM by no more apples (my give-a-damn's busted)
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To: Lorianne

What style is the Bush family supposed to conform to? Someone else's standards?


8 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:11:26 AM by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: Lorianne
Wait a minute! All this talk from the D.C. crowd about the Bushes.

What if the Bushes don't care about the D.C. crowd and just live the way they find pleasant?

9 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:12:09 AM by BobS
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To: Lorianne

What really infuriates the Washington press corps is, after 8 years living high off the hog, there are no more star-studded cocktail parties for them, where they can wash the ord'euvres down with rivers of chardonnay while brushing up against the Rich, Famous, and Beautiful People.


10 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:35:33 AM by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Exit148

It's the "The Bushes Can't Satisfy the Liberals Whatever They Do" style.


11 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:37:40 AM by Howlin (I need my Denny Crane!)
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To: Lorianne
"JFK/ Camelot: noted for its white-tie and haut couture glamour and elegance, aristocratic pleasures, spirited intellectual life and refined high culture."

Yeah, right! All that window dressing, fancy clothes and fake culture was successful in blinding the media and the public to what immoral scoundrels the Kennedy's all were and still are. Old drunk long-distance swimmer Teddy is the most recent poster boy of the tribe.

12 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:38:56 AM by Paulus Invictus
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To: Lorianne
"I think she's Texan," referring to first lady Laura Bush, she added. "But their social life needs some help."

Their social life is no one's business. If they choose to spend their time with each other and family and friends that's their business. Why would they want to spend it with a bunch of two faced phonies?

13 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:39:27 AM by Kath (Luvya Dubya)
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To: Miss Marple; Mo1; ohioWfan; Txsleuth; onyx; McGavin999; JeanS; cyncooper; Tamsey; Timeout; ...

Look at this drivel.


14 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:45:17 AM by Howlin (I need my Denny Crane!)
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What if the Bushes don't care about the D.C. crowd

Bingo...

That's angered the phony glitteratzi of DC - They don't get to hob knob with the First Family cause the First Family is real - and don't bother the "in" crowd who always thought they were the true movers and shakers of DC

15 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:50:38 AM by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: Lorianne
Though she has since mastered the art of personal chic, Hillary Rodham Clinton

If Hitlery masters her job as a senator as well as she mastered the art of personal chic, everyone in NY will have to wear a uniform. Black pants suit, white camp shirt. True elegance.

16 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:51:15 AM by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Lorianne

Im no trendsetter, but plastic dolphin drapes......OMG!


17 posted on 1/19/2005, 3:54:56 AM by mystery-ak (Jack's Back)
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To: Howlin
LAURA BUSH: NEW TRADITIONALIST
18 posted on 1/19/2005, 4:00:50 AM by deport (It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.)
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To: maine-iac7

I wish, for once, in the following years that Dubya would pop out with a cowboy hat and a bullwhip at a press conference. Jes' for kicks. After the 2006 elections when he's whumped them again:)


19 posted on 1/19/2005, 4:04:27 AM by BobS
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To: Lorianne

If M. Killian is going to talk about style, I wonder if he is going to comment on Barbara Boxer's hair -- er- ah--?style?


20 posted on 1/19/2005, 4:05:38 AM by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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