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Cheney's green parka and boots stand out; at Auschwitz Ceremony
Topic Started: Jan 28 2005, 12:41 PM (180 Views)
gvok
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Cheney's green parka and boots stand out (See Link for Photo)

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


OSWIECIM, Poland -- Vice President Dick Cheney's utilitarian hooded parka and boots stood out amid the solemn formality of a ceremony commemorating the liberation of Nazi death camps, raising eyebrows among the fashion-conscious.

Cheney replaced the zipped-to-the-neck green parka he sported in Thursday's blowing snow and freezing wind with a more traditional black coat - red tie and gray scarf showing underneath - for his tour of Auschwitz on Friday.

Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney's look at the deeply moving 60th anniversary service as "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."

"Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood," Givhan wrote in Friday's Post, also mocking Cheney's knit ski cap embroidered with the words "Staff 2001" and his brown, lace-up hiking boots. "The vice president looked like an awkward child amid the well-dressed adults," she said.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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This was lame, even for the Post.

1) Cheney is a heart patient. He would NEED the extra insulation that the parka provides. Heart patients, who take blood thinners, have a difficult time in colder temperatures. They need to retain body heat (Doc would know this best, but were is most head radiated away from the body? The head.)

2) I believe there were military insignia on the parka. It could also have been to show support for the troops.

I think the Post is trying to make something out of nothing. The comments from the FASHION WRITER were just silly.
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Hoss
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I am wondering who cares (besides Joan Rivers)?
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gvok
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It's not really a big deal. Just a little peculiar and therefore interesting IMO.
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Dr. Noah
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Best Joan Rivers impression:

"Here's our vice president wearing an awful drab green jacket. I'm so disappointed. When he was in Japan he had such a lovely fur complete with diamond earrings. I'm going to have to give him the worst dressed vice president for this month."
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benetil
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Admiralbill_gomec
Jan 28 2005, 12:50 PM
1) Cheney is a heart patient. He would NEED the extra insulation that the parka provides. Heart patients, who take blood thinners, have a difficult time in colder temperatures. They need to retain body heat (Doc would know this best, but were is most head radiated away from the body? The head.)

It isn't a real big deal, but he (Vice President Cheney) does represent our nation. If he is not healthy enough (or too sickly) to wear appropriate attire to such a ceremony, our government should send someone else.

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gvok
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He was dressed properly for the inauguration. Perhaps it was colder at the ceremony in Germany.
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24thcenstfan
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I think they set up heaters on the platform where the VP and all of the other VIPs sat for the Inauguration. If that was the case, then they wouldn’t have needed parka like coats. It was definitely cold on Inauguration day in DC though (in the 30s).
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Wichita
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^^^

I also believe the viewing stand for the Innagural Parade was enclosed by glass.

I find it funny that some much ado is literally being made about nothing. In looking at the picture, there are several others who's attire is not quite what the writer evidently thought Cheney's should be, but he didn't comment on them.

My first response was the same as Bill's - given his heart history, keeping warm is important. After seeing the coat and seeing that he wore a different one to the tour, I am curious if the parka was borrowed. Perhaps his regular coat wasn't considered sufficiently warm for sitting still, outside in the cold temperatures, but fine for a walking tour.

BTW, did anyone see Alan Chernoff's report on CNN about the ceremony? He interviewed his mother who had been in Auschwitz as a young girl. She was amazing.

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DEFIANT
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I don't think Cheney had enough money for a black parka.

But I can't blame him. I didn't even know you should wear funeral colors for a memorial (even though a funeral is a memorial, but you know what I mean).
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Admiralbill_gomec
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Sorry, but I don't get it.
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Sophie
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who cares what color of parka it was, just as long as it was a warm parka.

fashion is irrelevant. :yes:
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cptjeff
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I don't understand the deal either...
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