Better shots of Gov Palin's outfit on Memorial Day (dial up warning)

[Bucky]

I don't see the disrespect. It may not be the best fashion choice, but this is far from the Star Trek-like micromini I was led to expect.






This is just how she dresses on a typical day. She's got the legs for it.








Lots of women politicians play up their looks. For instance Michelle Bachman & Jennifer Granholm



I mean, hubba hubba! ==>

[madaboutharry]

1. You have to admit that she has lovely legs.

I don't see anything wrong with her outfit.

[Kookaburra]

7. I have to admit, I don't see it either

I expected a micro-mini-totally-inappropriate kind of deal, after hearing all the hooplah, but this is fine.

As much as I can't stand the woman, I also can't fault her for what she's wearing here.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Please see my post below.

This is not the same event as the one Shannyn was writing about.

[dipsydoodle]

11. I thought that too.

n/t

[MADem]

17. I don't know anything about fashion, but she looks fine. It's not too

uplifting for me to see "our team" carping about a woman's looks or dress, particularly when they're not blatantly inappropriate. If she were wearing a string bikini and a Beer Hat, that would be worthy of comment and certainly a bit of tut-tutting and WTF-ing. But she makes a nice appearance in those pictures.

I agree with you. It's her ideas, not her outfits, that are the problem.

[trumad]

2. Do all Alaska women buy their shoes from K-Mart?

[Bucky]

5. Like you can tell from these photos

[DesertFlower]

29. lol. nt

[madinmaryland]

42. Nice post, cboy4! My sister lives in AK and trust me, she does

not buy her shoes at K-mart!

Douche!

[tomreedtoon]

50. The only store in Alaska is a K-Mart!

Wal-Mart can't make a go of it there. The combination of the natural cold and the cold hearts of their owners bring the store's temperature close to absolute zero.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Different event...

Different shoes, different jacket. I'm not sure about the skirt.

The Memorial Day event in this photo was held in Fairbanks. The one Shannyn attended was here at Ft. Richardson, I believe.

ed. Correction -- it wasn't at Ft. Richardson, it was at the Discovery Theater in the Performing Arts Center.

[Bucky]

10. Looks like the same skirt to me; the lengths tend match in sitting & standing

But my main point is that there's got to be a way to denegrate her political viewpoints without resorting to the same old chauvinistic woman-bashing rhetoric from three generations back.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Oh, believe me,

we're all denegrating away up here, on everything we can think of. :) The skirt is just one of many things. :evilgrin:

[Tempest]

18. It's a different skirt

Different shoes and blouse as well.

The one she wore at the event was shorter.

[Vickers]

4. I think she's pretty cute, you know, for a psychotic end-timer.

:thumbsup:

[glowing]

8. She reminds me of one of those girls that was used in an Al Bundy "fantasy"

[JuniperLea]

21. My thoughts exactly!

I don't give a flying rat's ass about her clothing choices, it's her mind that scares the crap out of me!

There's plenty enough to critique without stooping to this level, imho. She is pretty cute, and putting her down for her looks, hair, legs, shoes, full attire is really petty and makes us look petty.

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[Bucky]

14. Dude, we must not be looking at the same pictures

But thanks for adding that extra bit of sexualized denegration to your personal attacks on her looks. "Bitch" must be forgetting her place, huh, Bubba?

[BuyingThyme]

13. I don't care how short her skirt is on Memorial Day.

Does that make me a bad person?

[cali]

15. I don't care either.

[Bucky]

16. No you're a good person

but a bad Oz

:)

[Enrique]

19. lol @ Bachmann

:rofl:

[Mike Daniels]

20. The photo in the initial blog was definitely misleading

That said, the overall outfit was probably too casual for a Memorial Day event honoring the military.

It's obvious that the woman dresses to flatter her figure and even knowing who she is I have no doubt that I'd check her out if she walked in a bar. Even then, her style of dress seems to be frequently at cross-purposes to appearing professional most of the time.

[Sanity Claws]

22. Skirt is okay but those shoes are totally inappropriate.

Red platform cork sandals.
Fashion sin.

[amandabeech]

70. Yeah. The shoes just have to go.

The rest of it is fine, if uninspiring.

[onenote]

23. Different events. One on Saturday, one on Monday

The event at which Palin is alleged to have worn a miniskirt (according to an item on HuffPost) occurred over Memorial Day weekend, but not on Memorial Day, Specically, that event was the Alaska Decoration of HOnor Ceremony held on Saturday May 23. The photos in this thread are from an event held on Memorial Day itself, Monday, May 25. THe Saturday event was a solemn event -- remembering Alaska's war dead. The photos I've seen aren't terribly clear, but they don't appear to show Palin wearing what I would consider a "mini" skirt.

[Cleita]

24. Seems like the women in the fourth picture need to cut down on the

moose burgers.

[Bucky]

27. Welcome to America, Cleita

You try lasting thru an Alaska winter without a little padding

[Cleita]

45. I dunno. Every time I've been in Alaska there have been plenty of people

there without extra padding. I always thought getting acclimatized to harsh winters had a lot to do with blood thickening not fat thickening. Besides that extra weight is unhealthy especially if you have to push extra to keep warm.

[Bluebear]

25. The skirt pales in comparison to those CFM pumps she is wearing.

[notadmblnd]

26. I don't see anything wrong with the length f her skirt.

maybe it is the "come fuck me shoes" she was wearing that people really had a problem with?:shrug:

[havocmom]

73. that was my reaction.

those shoes... not politically savvy at all.

[proteus_lives]

28. She's got good legs, I'll give her that.

On her best day, Palin has a "Evil MILF" thing going on.

[Saboburns]

30. She looks fine

There are many reasons to talk about Gov Palin.

This is not one of them.

[DesertFlower]

31. nothing wrong with her outfit,

but why do we never see her arms?

[Bucky]

34. Palin's arms

No, she's well armed.

[DesertFlower]

38. thanks. nt

[Cleita]

58. Since she's such a gun enthusiast why doesn't she join up? n/t

[MilesColtrane]

66. She's the kind of gun owner that gives others a bad name.

You don't EVER put your finger on the trigger of a gun unless you are about to shoot.

She'll probably end up capping a reporter at a photo op someday.

[madmax]

32. self delete

[NOW tense]

33. Overblown hype

Personally I think she looks appropriate. I was led to believe she had on a short skirt. Thanks for posting and correcting the "issue".

[Blue_In_AK]

35. DIFFERENT EVENT.

[NOW tense]

37. You mean I wasted my niceness? n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

40. Yes, you did.

:P If the length of Sarah's skirts was the only thing we had to bitch about, this might be much ado about nothing, but it's just one more instance of her lack of appropriateness. As in, what governor in her right mind would complain on the state's website about "bogus" (her word) ethics complaints. Bogus??

My distaste for her knows no bounds, so I say the skirt length is fair game. I don't like her hair or her glasses either. And those SHOES...oh, my God.

[NOW tense]

43. I worked really hard

to say a nice thing. I can't waste this niceness......

You looked very appropriate on Memorial Day. I don't see what all of those people were talking about.
:D

[Blue_In_AK]

60. Thank you very much.

I thought I looked very nice, too. :)

[Bucky]

51. Okay, I found a better photo of the ACTUAL event where she wore the skirt

And perhaps the criticism is warrented after all

:hide:

[Blue_In_AK]

59. There you go.

:rofl:

[Hannah Bell]

36. it's another shiny object for you to talk about instead of anything that matters,

put out by Distraction, Inc.

[malaise]

39. If that's a mini-skirt then

I used to be virtually naked.

Were those shoes left over from the campaign shopping spree? :evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

41. Would you have worn your miniskirt to a Memorial Day event

honoring dead soldiers?

And if you were governor and had been invited to attend this event, don't you think you would have RSVP'ed? This was just one more instance of her keeping everyone guessing as to whether she would show up or not. She's developing quite a track record in that regard.

I'm just so tired of her. That's why I've stopped posting all the myriad Sarah Palin stories -- and believe me, they continue unabated -- and leave it to others to post if they feel like it. She's really wearing us down up here.

[malaise]

46. No but as much as a dislike that stupid woman

That's not a miniskirt

[Brewman_Jax]

44. Seeing the photos

not exactly the best choice of attire for a somber event, but, y'know... :crazy:

[Beacool]

47. I don't get it.

What's wrong with her outfit? I don't particularly liker her red sandals, but what's the problem with her skirt and jacket?

[madmom]

48. I was always told women over 35 did not wear skirts above the knee.

:shrug:

[Cleita]

56. I saw Jane Fonda in a mini-skirt when she was almost fifty and

she looked hot.

[havocmom]

72. rubbish. If your gams still turn heads, just above the knee is fine

at any age.

But Palin's hooker shoes raised my eyebrow. Fine look for stepping out for a night on the town, but sorta trashy for a governor who wants to be queen.

[Nikki Stone1]

49. NONE of these is a mini-skirt.

Look, I hate everything Palin stands for, but this is a FAKE issue. Keep it real folks.

Here is a real miniskirt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-skirt

[Stinky The Clown]

52. I got a shitload of problems with her. That outfit is not among them.

[Bucky]

55. I think she should get rid of that outfit immediately!

But maybe leave the ceremony first.

[Joe the Liberal]

53. Remeber when conservatives were blathering about Jill Biden's boots at the inauguration?

Saying how they kinda made her look like a hooker? I suppose this only applies to Democrats, conservatives never look like hookers no matter what they wear right? :eyes:

[Kaleva]

54. Nothing wrong with the outfit.

[CBR]

57. I agree. nt

[omega minimo]

61. That is not a mini-skirt

[OhioChick]

62. No, it's not. n/t

[omega minimo]

63. The shoes though, totally Famous Footwear

:spray:

[cagesoulman]

64. What a disappointment.

Not short enough, man.

[texanwitch]

65. She like them tight also.

Check out the back of the skirt in that one picture.

She couldn't sit down otherwise.

[fair trade soy chai]

67. I wonder if the foot fetishists get off on those "eff me" red high heels in the first pic?

[Iggo]

68. No, but we shoe-fetishists sure do.

B-)

[fair trade soy chai]

69. Lawl...I thought you folks were one and the same!

(I think I have ugly toes but some creepy guy in the park told me I have nice feet and I felt GOOD! Oy vey...)

[WillowTree]

71. THOSE are miniskirts??

What Puritan sect do you belong to?