Politics aside, I felt sad for Cheney when I saw this photo.
Check out the dude in the back, on the left, he's all "what's up with that?"
Cheney's Green Parka and Boots Stand Out
Fri Jan 28, 9:12 AM ET Europe - AP
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.
I mean, we all have had that experience, you show up to a party that is supposed to be casual, you show up in your capris(for girls, not sure if guys can rock the capris yet), or whatever else you decide is "casual" enough to wear; and you arrive and everyone is dressed like they are going to walk the red carpet at the Oscars.
Then again maybe Cheney was wearing the boots to appear taller to someone he met there previously, like George did in that one Seinfeld episode,
The Betrayal.
CJ at 1/28/2005
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Just a friendly word (or two) to oso:
It's faux pas.
And you're right, that is pretty funny :)
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