Sarah Palin dresses closer "to how most of [American women] dress."Really? Horyn goes on: "I like the way [Palin] dresses. The straight skirt and white blouse, the trim jacket with an open neck and three-quarter sleeves — the look is clean, tailored and energetic. It’s businesslike without being boring, smart without being insider. You don’t need to read a fashion magazine to understand it."
Sure. Sarah Palin, former beauty queen, knows how to dress. On someone else's money. And she was running for elected office. Michelle Obama (whom Horyn is working up to villify for wearing all sorts of designer clothes, but not cleaving to one particular designer or specifically buying American) didn't run for office. She's married to the guy who got the job, and her job now is different and requires different costuming (not to mention that some of the things that suit Palin's body type--be they never so trim and straight-skirted--would look terrible on Obama).
Horyn finishes up: "Fashion is also context. And in the year since the industry placed its absurdly bright hopes on Mrs. Obama and her wardrobe, much has changed and dimmed. Is this how a modern, educated, working woman wants to be viewed in her first historic year — as a maven, an icon? Who’s Barbie now?"
You want to upgrade the quality of your shot, Ms. Horyn?
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