Sarah Palin's $150,000 Wardrobe Malfunction? "Caribou Barbie indeed."

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Sarah Palin's $150,000 Wardrobe Malfunction?
Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic

Sarah Palin, small-town hockey mom and everywoman? More like Sarah Palin, pampered princess. Jeanne Cummings at Politico reports that the RNC’s monthly financial disclosure reports reveal that the Republican National Committee has spent tens of thousands of dollars on the vice presidential candidate's wardrobe and accessories since she was nominated, including $150,000 in September alone.

So it seems you can take the girl out of the beauty pageant, but you can’t take the beauty pageant out of the girl.

Palin's clothes came from retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus and Barneys New York, and expenses included nearly $5,000 for hair and makeup. Maybe this is actually her one-woman economic stimulus plan. Lord knows the retail sector needs it.

Still, voters must find it unfathomable for Palin, who has been presented as a woman “like us,” to spend that kind of money on clothes in these difficult financial times, to see her speaking so passionately about Joe the Plumber while plumbing campaign coffers for Valentino jackets and pencil skirts. And yet, they’ve eaten it up, tittering on chat sites about Palin’s Kawasaki eyeglass frames and her Naughty Monkey red peep-toe pumps....

In Palin’s defense, being a woman in the public eye has its own kind of pressures. And it’s unlikely she has been stepping off the campaign trail to join the ladies who lunch for shopping sprees at Neimans. Instead, she is probably working with a wardrobe stylist, who brings her things to try on and choose from. But the issue of clothing and hair expenses has always been a land mine for politicians (John Edwards' $400 haircuts), and someone should have been sensitive to that.

You also have to wonder how it feels, as a woman, to have everyone know that you really have been dressed up and trotted out like a beauty queen for the American public to wag their tongues at. Caribou Barbie indeed.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2008/10/palins-economic.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. RNC spokesman on Mika Mouse right now said he would be pissed

If he was Norm Coleman, in the fight of his life, to know they spent this money
on wardrobe vs helping his campaign.

[Cha]

6. No wonder Coleman grandstanded and

"denounced the filthy robo calls".

gopers are gambling on palin and well..failin'

[NJmaverick]

2. The last sentence made little sense

<<You also have to wonder how it feels, as a woman, to have everyone know that you really have been dressed up and trotted out like a beauty queen for the American public to wag their tongues at. Caribou Barbie indeed. >>

Ahhh.... for Sarah it would feel like old times.

[Cleita]

3. As Vice President of Argentina, Eva Peron spoke for the

"descamisados" or shirtless ones, the poorest of the poor in Argentina, yet her closets bulged with Parisienne haute couture, furs and expensive jewelry. When questioned about it, she replied that her constituents liked her to look good and she dressed for them.

So meet your Eva Peron, freepers. At least Eva did steal from the rich to help the poor, kind of like a very fashionable Robin Hood.

[Cha]

4. Rec'd~ This is the best article I've

seen explaining how mousse can't really justify NiemanMarcus while whinging about joe the planthead.

[Wolfies Revenge]

5. WHY do people think she is attractive?

Is she attractive for her age? I don't get it. I could walk down main street, throw a quarter and hit someone that is a thousand times better looking than her.

[Montana_Mrs]

7. Caribou Barbie wardrobe limerick

Caribou Barbie at Neiman’s and Saks
Shopping fiendishly off the racks.
The RNC put up the dough
Caribou Barbie, way to go!

Caribou Barbie’s suits are pricey
Undivine Sarah’s politics are dicey
Caribou Barbie, working class mom,
The 150,000 dollar wardrobe
Is going to bomb


Caribou Barbie, why not Kohl’s or Sears?
Caribou Barbie, better change gears.
Caribou Barbie, hockey mom and huntress
VP Candidate, how you do affront us!