Hillary Designer: Palin Spending Strange

[spanone]

CBS) CBS News has confirmed that the Republican National Committee spent up to $150,000 on what appears to be wardrobe and makeup spending at high end department stores for the GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

But one of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forest, who designed Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits says it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin to need to buy clothes.

“Why do you need to pay for it?” Forest told CBS News from her boutique Susanna Beverly Hills saying that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free. “It’s an honor, you are going to design for someone who could be

the president of the United States,” noting that the exposure any designer would get from dressing someone as famous as Clinton or Palin would be worth much more.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/22/cbsnews_investigates/printable4539410.shtml

[ColbertWatcher]

1. On a "simulated shopping spree" on another thread, I spent $63,417 on boots alone!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4287971&mesg_id=4288736

[magdalena]

2. I was wondering the same thing.

I always hear of celebrities and other high-profile figures getting free clothes - it's some of the best advertising designers can do.

[Blaze Diem]

3. Maybe the Shopping spree was really GOP $$$ to pay the fees for hiding her shit in Alaska.

Shopping Spree aka hush money
About the way the GOP operates isn't it?

S'pose the kids needed to be dressed also, then there's Tawd's suits and shoes that he'll probably never wear again, back in Alaska riding his snowmobile.
Sarah's done.

[spanone]

4. it does raise questions.....

chris matthews opened his show with it.....

[alsame]

5. There probably wasn't enough time to have clothes designed for

her. If the decision of Palin was as impulsive as has been reported, she probably came down from Alaska with a suitcase full of inappropriate clothes and needed new ones immediately.

[Blaze Diem]

6. Ya, kinda warm in the lower 48 for Muckluks at that time.

I still suspect hush money..for some darn reason.
Maybe its just the normal scenario with the republicons.

[Blaze Diem]

7. Considering Palin also knows how to hide or adjust public funds, it

probably has to do with use (or misuse) of campaign funds used for 'other purposes'.

hmmm?

[pitohui]

8. i'm not so sure such exposure would be worth much -- i think it would be toxic

for one thing the lady is frumpy in her fake reading glasses (she doesn't know you take reading glasses off when you're not reading) and her fake quasi-1980s beehive

we are not talking about a fashion icon here

we're talking about somebody only a baptist grandmother might mistake as fashionable and i don't think baptist granny is going to spring for designer duds

a hillary endorsement yes? there are followers who are actually bright, have money, and might actually need professional outfits like hillary's for their jobs

but the followers of palin are by definition losers w.out jobs who pretend that they are voluntarily stay at home moms for jeebus -- not a crowd that is going to spend for professional business clothing for women -- where would they wear such things?

maybe i'm naive but i see no value and indeed a loss of value if i was a designer and my name was associated with palin

[Blaze Diem]

9. Maye her only offer from designers were the FLDS ladies.

That'd be cute with her beehive.
Like Little House on the Prairie