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Sydney Beveridge
The Quick 10: 10 Campaign Fashion Choices
by Sydney Beveridge - October 28, 2008 - 2:46 PM

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With campaign attire in the spotlight, what apparel choices are candidates and their spouses making? Whether they buy the with their own money or campaign funds, here are some of the fashion trends among the political elite.

palin-eyewear.jpg1. Kawasaki, the Japanese company that makes Sarah Palin’s iconic eyeglasses, received as many orders in 10 days for the frame as it does in a year.
2. Minnesota’s Pacificier baby boutique is also cashing in on the publicity about Trig Palin’s romper.
3. Sarah Palin debuted as the VP candidate in an Italian designer Valentino top, but her beaded earrings were handmade in Alaska by her mother-in-law.
4. Palin likes Patagonia outerwear, but the brand was quick to distance itself from the VP candidate. “Just wearing the clothing of an environmental company does not necessarily make someone an environmentalist,” said Patagonia rep Jen Rapp.

5. Daughter Piper Palin carries a Louis Vuitton purse, but it’s a fake.

6. John McCain sports Italian designer Ferragamo shoes. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin and Paris Hilton have the same taste in Naughty Monkey shoes.

cindy7. Cindy McCain favors U.S./Dominican Republic designer Oscar De La Renta, which she and Laura Bush both wore at the convention.
8. Barack Obama’s preference for Hartmax suits was a boon to sales for the largest suit maker in the U.S.
9. Michelle Obama wore a blue dress by Chicago-native designer Maria Pinto to the convention, and an off-the rack Donna Ricco dress for her appearance on The View.
10. Joe Biden always wears a flag pin and his trademark grin.

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Comments (17)

  1. That was all you could come up with on the Obamas? How the times have changed! The Dems used to be known as the trendsetters.

    Seriously? Ugh.

    posted by Bias Watcher on 10-28-2008 at 3:07 pm

  2. had to double check the url of this page – for a minute there, I thought I had been redirected to Vanity Fair or Cosmo………………..

    posted by Clotho on 10-28-2008 at 3:08 pm

  3. that makes me love Patagonia even more.

    posted by jenny on 10-28-2008 at 4:08 pm

  4. The whole Palin clothing controversy is crazy. If she wasn’t wearing designer clothes she’d be blasted for not looking good enough. Who cares what the candidates wear? That’s not the point.

    posted by wmp on 10-28-2008 at 4:19 pm

  5. Ditto on the lack of Obama fashion in this article- I personally *LOVE* Michelle Obama’s early/mid-’60s style. Very Jackie Kennedy and very classy!

    posted by arfies on 10-28-2008 at 4:20 pm

  6. I gotta go with wmp with this one, who cares what they wear?

    I’ve never even heard of Patagonia.

    posted by CK on 10-28-2008 at 4:36 pm

  7. Don’t care what they wear. DO care who paid for it.

    posted by Sheldon Siegel on 10-28-2008 at 5:20 pm

  8. spelled “boom” wrong

    8. Barack Obama’s preference for Hartmax suits was a boon to sales for the largest suit maker in the U.S.

    posted by edmercd on 10-28-2008 at 5:24 pm

  9. I think their clothes are a better indicator of who they are than their words.

    posted by sorcha on 10-28-2008 at 5:35 pm

  10. boon (noun) – a thing that is helpful or beneficial.

    Sorry, edmercd.

    posted by Merriam-Webster on 10-28-2008 at 5:37 pm

  11. This makes me HATE Patagonia even more!

    posted by Eric on 10-28-2008 at 8:43 pm

  12. I didn’t know communists, and those have who have blind crushes on them, wore designer clothes…

    posted by Eric on 10-28-2008 at 8:46 pm

  13. Sheldon, what you’re missing is that Palin’s clothes were actually paid for – unlike Dem candidates like Hillary who have their clothes given to them by the designers – which would seemingly exceed the campaign contribution limits.

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 10-28-2008 at 10:29 pm

  14. Ah, how subtle your jabs at the republicans are.

    It’s kind of depressing that fashion plays a part in politics at all. I guess the kids from Clueless were victorious after all.

    posted by David on 10-29-2008 at 12:21 am

  15. PartiallyDeflected, If a designer chooses to donate clothes, that’s up to them. Don’t know if it’s true or not.
    But if someone donates money for a particular candidate to help get them elected and the money is used instead for one of the candidates clothes, purchased at hugely over priced stores, then I would take issue with that.

    posted by Sheldon Siegel on 10-29-2008 at 9:59 am

  16. “Daughter Piper Palin carries a Louis Vuitton purse, but it’s a fake”

    Isn’t counterfeiting illegal?

    Oh, I forgot. IOKIYAR.

    posted by Florida on 10-29-2008 at 10:01 am

  17. This is what the people who claim to identify with the average American wear.

    What we need is someone with a superior brain. After 8 years being led by the intellectually inferior and ideologically rabid.

    (BTW, the truth, and you know it, is that if Palin were a Democrat she’d have been ripped to shreds about qualifications, clothing, teenage mothers… Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Ingraham, and the rest that nasty crowd would have doused her in vitriol and set her alight by now. Somehow, the ‘Liberal Media’ is just not much interested)

    posted by BassMan on 10-29-2008 at 11:33 am

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