What are the odds that Palin's $150,000 wardrobe includes some

[hedgehog]

"important" pieces of jewelry? She can't possibly have spent all that money on clothing and shoes.

[Muttocracy]

1. maybe some underwear sewn from $1000 bills?

[emulatorloo]

2. You can easily spend $$$$$ at Nieman Marcus. It is pretty wild, esp on the designer floor

Easy to spend lots of money on the "basics" there.

[hedgehog]

3. Here's what I figure- 60 days, 60 outfits, that's still $2500 per outift.

I find it hard to believe she could do that.

[emulatorloo]

7. $2500 could buy you an ok outfit. They were shopping for the kids too apprently

Poking around on the Neimens website in the designer area i found a nice jacket for $1500 and a pair of velvet pants for $4375.00 in the Armani section. Not Palin's style but still.

He did have a pencil skirt she would like for $3625.00

She apparently wore Valentino at her convention speech. They were getting her the good stuff I think

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/

[damntexdem]

15. True, it's hard to imagine her being so cost-conscious as to hold it down to $2500 per day.

;-)

[Hamlette]

23. apparently the figure $150K is only for purchases in SEPTEMBER

what about October?

We might be able to ride this thing a bit longer come November.

[Johonny]

10. I agree

[yardwork]

4. If she spent $5,000 on each outfit and bought 30 outfits, that would do it.

But some of the money went to makeup and hair stylists. Take off probably $25,000 for them alone, maybe more. They're traveling with her and restyling her face and hair after every appearance.

Her clothes look awful but they are overpriced designer names and she probably paid retail, right off the rack. Someone with no taste could spend $10,000 on an outfit when you factor in the cost of the bags and shoes. All she needs is ten separate outfits of overpriced ugly clothes and there you go.

Most of us rarely browse the racks at Neiman Marcus's designer boutiques, but you'll see incredible prices there. A blouse for $2,000, shoes for $1,000 - a person with no sense and no limits on the money to spend can drop quite a bit.

[napi21]

5. Don't kid yourself! Yesterday the reporter who is on Hartmann's show

every day said that the red leather jacket Sarah wore cost $10,000! It appears she bought quite a few different outfits, and when you drop $10,000 on ONE ITEM, add several pair of $400 shoes, it doesn't take long to add up to that much.

The other thing I heard was that she purchased clothes for Todd, a custom pacifier for the baby, and we know they cleaned up the father to be. I have to believe the other kids got a few things too. Although these additional items were discussed, no one has said their cost was included in the $150,000.

[hedgehog]

6. They spent a little under $5000 sprucing up Todd. I can believe a couple

tailored suits plus shirts, shoes and ties could add up to that.

[kestrel91316]

8. She's got a whole box full of nice dangly earrings for that perfect

feminine touch as part of her makeover. I have been noticing.

[damntexdem]

16. But the controller devices in those earrings obviously aren't working.

I mean, just look at what she says!

The GOP should obviously demand their money back for those earrings. ;-)

[Peachhead22]

9. I want to know exactly who made that decision

Not who shopped (wasn't it a McCain robocall guy?), but who decided she needed a closet full of designer clothes. Was it a McCain or GOP flack who thought "She's just a country bumpkin from East Bumfuck, Alaska we need to give her some sophistication" which would show contempt for all the small town voters they claim to represent.

Or was it Palin herself? Which would show more clearly how it's gone to her head and she thinks she's the headliner stuck with the grumpy old guy.

On edit: I suspect it was Palin herself. Why would someone from the McCain campaign or the GOP buy stuff for her husband or kids (as some here have reported), and wouldn't it be better for the McCain campaign/GOP for them to be seen in average clothes? I hate the GOP, but even they aren't this stupid. And if it was Palin we've got a whole new scandal that goes beyond the "trivial" label Nancy Pfluffernutter*, et al, have tried to advance. i.e.-"Why would they try to blame some nameless GOP flack? Because they knew it was wrong?"


*Love that name, kudos to whoever DUer I heard that from.

[ROakes1019]

11. Cindyesque

They figured that since she would be on stage with Cindy McCain all the time, she had to look as good as Cindy. If what Sarah is wearing cost $150,000, imagine what Cindy has paid for her campaign wardrobe. How can these people have the nerve to run as ordinary folks?

[sad sally]

22. Remember a few months back when it was reported (then quickly

forgotten) that Mrs. McCain had a $750,000 credit card bill one month? Betcha' that was for her on-stage wardrobe?

[justiceischeap]

12. I thought they bought clothes for the whole family

That's 7 people total.

[demokatgurrl]

13. I am just so effing happy that I am not

a Republican donor. I would ask for my money back (and they can, and they should).

[abumbyanyothername]

14. I don't think it includes jewelry

but it does likely include shoes priced in a manner that Joe Six Pack, but not Imelda Marcos, would find tough to swallow.

[ghurley]

17. Someone, please tell me which Goodwill they are going to be dropping them off at...

I call dibs on the Jackson jacket.

[AllieB]

18. Louis Vuitton and Chanel purses, Christian Laboutin shoes cost big bucks.

Even then you'd have to buy a ton of them to add up to 150K.

[hughee99]

19. It sounds like it was also spent on "consultants"

to help pick out the right stuff. As I understand it, they can be somewhat expensive as well.

[Norrin Radd]

20. For shits and giggles, my girl and I went into Barneys to browse.

I'm 5'6, 125 lbs, really slender, so I have great difficulty finding clothes in my size (men's clothes are the opposite of women's -- they assume every guy is massive). Because of this, I haven't gotten many new clothes since the late 90's.

Anyhow, it just so happens that everything at Barneys fit me like a glove. We were astounded. Especially by the prices. A t-shirt went for $100. Suit jacket $1500. There was this beautiful blue-grey greatcoat/frockcoat made of light material, and it fit like it were made for me. If it were $200, I would've purchased it on the spot. As I whipped it on and walked over to a mirror to admire, rapidly a clerk approached, watching and nervously making banter. I didn't realize why until I put it back on the rack and noticed the tag -- $3,000. Yikes!

$3,000 for some cloth. I'm certain Wolfkiller's clothes cost way more.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. I wonder how many pairs of shoes are involved

Does she wear a new pair with each new outfit (in other words, a new pair each day)? I wonder if her collection is starting to look Imeldaesque.

[rvablue]

24. Just THE JACKET she wore at the convention cost $2500. n/t