Saturday, August 18, 2007

Bush DeFashioned

Think Progress: "Fashion article peeves Bush
. The Washington Post reports, “What really gets George W. Bush riled up? Calling him a fashion victim.” After Marques Harper of the Austin American- Statesman wrote a short style piece critiquing Bush’s choice of clothing when he’s down on the Crawford ranch, noting that lately “he’s opted to look more like ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ than a sweaty, tough ranch hand.” Harper said after the article appeared, the White House called to express its disdain:
Harper received a phone call that morning from White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino, who, Harper told friends, said the president read the article and was unhappy about the way he was portrayed..."


Men who worry about fashion are...

(no, I'm not gonna make it easy. Insert your own list.)

2 comments:

the rube said...

did george forget to wear his codpiece?

seriously, i wonder if his handlers ever have him wear one.

Bob Harrison said...

I bet he uses the country codpiece-- a pickle.

Back in the Disco era a nurse friend of ours was working ER one Sat pm and in comes a patient on gurney. Car wreck. Cuts his pants off (the guy was unconscious). Taped to his inner thigh-- a pickle. So, there's one urban legend with some truth to it. Bush I'm sure would use imported Gucci pickles.