Tuesday 9 September 2008

Politics of Fashion: Palin, McCain, Obama


Fashionistas haven't had this a good deal to say about political wardrobes since Jackie Kennedy inhabited the White House.
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That's because trey of the women on the front lines of the 2008 presidential race -- Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin -- all dress with their have sense of style, even if, in the case of Palin, it's anti-style.


Palin herself told Vogue magazine publisher, "A newsman once asked me about it [her appearance] during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wear my hair on upper side of my head and these schoolma'am glasses."


While each woman approaches fashion from a different angle, all three ooze out strength and confidence in the path they dress.


To find out more about what the clothes state about the women, ABCNews.com spoke to Jennifer Goodkind and Jayne Chase, the co-hosts of the radio set show A Fashionable Life, which pose on WGCH 1490-AM in Greenwich, Conn., as well as the Web.





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Chase: She aforesaid she's a hockey mamma and the only departure between a hockey mummy and a pit bull is lipstick. I'm a hockey momma, and by and large that's a serious Polar Tech crowd. She aforesaid it, lipstick is credibly the only fashiony thing she has an interest in. Fashion is not a piece of her program or her package.


Goodkind: She let her hair down concluding night just it was still very contrived. It was a "downdo." She has that agenda of appealing to every woman schlepping her kids to school. Fashion is not going to be the focal point for her or her campaign, for that thing. If she gets overly glammed up, she's exit to move away from the voice that's her strength. Still, she should lose the schoolmarm eyeglasses and trade wind them in for a modern frame, lose the "updo" and go for a haircut that has movement and frames her beautiful face. She has a bunch to work with. Play up, never play down.







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