Posted on 01/29/2005 4:07:54 AM PST by Millicent_Hornswaggle
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.
Democracy in their state has been subverted, they have an illegitimate governor, massive fraud and electoral incompetence in the heavily democratic districts, and they are writing and printing articles about what (the legitimately elected) Vice President is wearing as an outer garment?!?
Anything to make the Americans look like imbeciles, even if it is something as silly as their outerwear.
GEE, this is one way to divert attention away from the meaning of the ceremony. TALK ABOUT FASHION.
Frankly, why weren't theyall wearing stripped coton pants shirts and caps to really commemorate the events. This story is BS, and disrespectful of the people that died in the death camps.
Did Clinton or Gore go to Auschwitz and sit in a sub-freezing snowstorm for three hours ten years ago? I don't think so. The point is...he was there. And maybe next time the idiots who planned the event could shorten the program in those awful weather conditions, but I guess that would be too un-PC and not every blowhard could have had his/her 30 min. on stage. You can say anything you need to say in an hour in a snowstorm, because no one will be paying attention to anything but their cold feet after that anyway.
No, Clintoon dressed up like Jesus when he went to Africa.
This is bull. I'm quite sure Vice President Cheney had a black overcoat, but the weather for that ceremony was beyond bad. I saw it on TV, it was frigid, it was snowy, the wind was howling, and the snow was flying. The VP has a bad heart, in case you didn't know, and if the Dr said wear a parka, I say screw anyone who presumes to know better.
..raising eyebrows among the fashion-conscious...
Well let's see, who was properly attired at Auschwitz:
1- The Germans....the inventors
2- The French....the collaborators
3- a few other supporting cast who played along or pretended the stench from the ovens did not reach their sensitive european nostrils (Fashion-conscious too).
The snow blower bum just happened to represent one of the countries that ended the Holocaust. I would have worn a cap that said "Never forget"...then what would the papers said?
The Seattle and the San Franciso paper are calling for a new government office: Queer eye for the political guy.
Thanks, I can't figure out how to post pics. I'm new at this.
That's a very good point and a very good idea. They'd have had to have had some damn big prison garb though, to fit some of those lardasses so that might ruin the effect a little.
Interesting article on heart disease and cold weather. Could explain the heavier parka that Cheney was wearing.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4570
He was a warmly dressed man who's a cardiac patient. Jeez.
Thanks for the article. Makes a good point.
Why is someone whose slavishly addicted to the garment industry reporting on a leading figure in foreign policy for a liberal newspaper?
My thought when I saw this photo was: given Cheney's character and personality I wonder if he wasn't informed of the outside ceremony until it was too late to have the proper attire.
If Cheney showed up with a swastika arm band then that would be news, otherwise STFU this is pathetic nonsense and soooooooooo petty.
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