www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/28/auschwitz.cheney.reut/index.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Vice President Dick Cheney raised eyebrows on Fri day for wearing an olive-drab parka, hiking boots and knit ski cap to re present the United States at a solemn ceremony remembering the liberatio n of Auschwitz. Other leaders at the event in Poland on Thursday marking the 60th anniver sary of the death camp's liberation, such as French President Jacques Ch irac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wore dark, formal overcoats a nd dress shoes or boots. "The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typic ally wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post' s fashion writer, wrote in the newspaper's Friday editions. Between the somber, dark-coated leaders at the outdoor ceremony sat Chene y, resplendent in a green parka embroidered with his name and featuring a fur-trimmed hood, the laced brown boots and a knit ski cap reading "St aff 2001." "And, indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well -dressed adults," Givhan wrote. Britain's Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph newspapers also both noted that Cheney had opted for casual attire. The Post's Givhan said Cheney might have been hoping to avoid the cold we ather in Oswiecim, but noted he had worn a dark overcoat and no hat at a ll at another recent winter occasion -- his own swearing-in ceremony on Inauguration Day on Jan. "The vice president might have been warm in his parka, ski cap and hiking boots," Givhan said. "But they had the unfortunate effect of suggesting he was more concerned with his own comfort than the reason for braving the cold at all."
|
http://csua.com/feed/