Ravenwood - 01/28/05 12:30 PM
Vice President Dick Cheney can't catch a break. Apparently he was caught wearing green (probably a Halliburton color) instead of the more formal black at the Auschwitz ceremony.
Vice President Dick Cheney raised eyebrows on Friday for wearing an olive-drab parka, hiking boots and knit ski cap to represent the United States at a solemn ceremony remembering the liberation of Auschwitz.You would think Chirac and Putin would feel more comfortable in yellow.Other leaders at the event in Poland on Thursday marking the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wore dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots.
"The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer, wrote in the newspaper's Friday editions.Considering he worked for Nixon, this is probably the first time in a long time that Cheney has been said to look like a young boy.Between the somber, dark-coated leaders at the outdoor ceremony sat Cheney, resplendent in a green parka embroidered with his name and featuring a fur-trimmed hood, the laced brown boots and a knit ski cap reading "Staff 2001."
"And, indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults," Givhan wrote.
Maybe the Air Force lost his luggage.
Posted by: Thibodeaux at January 28, 2005 2:18 PMWell, BFD.
You think those who dressed up froze their asses off and Cheney was warm? Could be that the weather was worse than expected and instead of risking his health he put on warm clothing. The temperature was below freezing that day and sitting out there for a ceremony can't be the most pleasant time when it's that cold.
Hopefully Chirac dies of pneumonia.
What was more important, his green parka or the fact that a high level american representative was present?
Posted by: Nylarthotep at January 28, 2005 2:38 PMMakes perfect sense... the our guys wore olive drab when they liberated it in the first place.
Posted by: Nate at January 28, 2005 2:40 PMIf the weather was anything like what we've been experiencing over, nobody Cheney's age should have been out without being dressed very warmly. It is possible to dress formally and still be dressed sufficiently for a cold night in Moscow, but such clothes don't seem to be sold in America anymore. I'd expect Putin to have formal wear that keeps him nice and warm, but I don't know about the rest.
Remember President William Henry Harrison? He didn't wear an overcoat for his inauguration in 1841, and died of pneumonia a month later. (Giving the longest inaugural speech ever didn't help.) At least Cheney's smarter than that.
Posted by: markm at January 28, 2005 3:15 PMCheney also has a heart condition.
Posted by: Ravenwood at January 28, 2005 3:19 PMCheney obviously has read Stephen Potter, and is engaging in USmanship.
Potter's example is always carrying a thermos of hot coffee around Britain, or commenting how quaint everything is over here, like phone booths and affordable housing projects.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at January 28, 2005 5:35 PMErr... I'm an idiot. He was at Auschwitz, which was liberated by the Soviets. So, yeah. I'm an idiot. Though there are plenty of snarky comments to make about the French and Soviets which I will leave as an exercise to the reader.
Posted by: Nate at January 30, 2005 11:41 AM"Chirac and Putin would feel more comfortable in yellow"
I believe weasels are brown.
So why were the Fashion Police attending the occasion, anyway? And who cares what he was wearing, as long as it wasn't outright disparaging to the occasion?
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