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Dose of Social Issues
The Gap, try it... you'll like it...
Weekend Edition
October 25-26, 2008
Hey, Sarah Palin... If Macy's is good enough for me and The Gap is good enough for Michelle Obama and Talbot's is good enough for Hillary Clinton... they are good enough for you.
I am sure you heard that Sarah Palin received at least $150,000 of the money raised for the McCain campaign by Republican donors for a clothing allowance. The somewhat annoying part is that she spent a good deal of that money on clothing from Neiman's.
...which is weird, because it's cold in Alaska, and it would thereby be difficult to sashay about in some Laboutin 41/2" gold-tipped stiletto pumps without slipping on a patch of ice. And, picking up her six month old in a fitted Christian Lacroix blazer can't be easy. As well, grabbing that hockey stick and playing a quarter or two with your son's team in a Marc Jacobs pencil skirt has gotta be tricky.
But you know what, as Campbell Brown so eloquently asserted, "women are judged by how they look. And that's a fact."
Well you know what, ladies, we are judged by how we look. But that doesn't mean we have to look beautiful or sexy or elegant or even "pulled together." In fact, we have the incredible freedom, simply to look neat, confident and competent. Period. Think Golda Meir.
And yes, one can always argue that Obama's suits cost $1,500 and that John McCain wears Gucci loafers. I got it. But they probably aren't buying them from Neiman's with campaign donations. And, they certainly aren't running around pretending to be the salt of the earth.
I don't know. Why doesn't Palin just borrow some of Cindy McCain's clothes. They could have a Barbie day closet trade-sees or something... Or maybe they don't both wear the same size. And, maybe Cindy doesn't want to look and find a smudge of that hockey mom lipstick on her Carolina Hererra creme silk blouse. That would be a fortune to dry clean, and it may not even come out. Why risk it?
