the fashion plate

[realthog]

As you might expect, I spend most of my leisure hours combing the pages of Vanity Fair. And what should I come across but this spellbinding piece of haut couture analysis:

One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi “F-in’ Redneck” Johnston.

It caught our attention, then, when First Lady Laura Bush and would-be First Lady Cindy McCain took the stage Tuesday night wearing some rather fancy designer clothes. So we asked our fashion department to price out their outfits.

Laura Bush
Oscar de la Renta suit: $2,500
Stuart Weitzman heels: $325
Pearl stud earrings: $600–$1,500
Total: Between $3,425 and $4,325

Cindy McCain
Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000
Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500
Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000
Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000
Shoes, designer unknown: $600
Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

Wow! No wonder McCain has so many houses: his wife has the price of a Scottsdale split-level hanging from her ears.

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's perfectly possible she was overcharged: someone that rich, they don't care if they pay a hundred grand over the odds for their earrings.

If the $5-an-hour gardener slopes off ten minutes early, however . . .

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's because gardener's are sixpence a dozen down in Michoacán.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Michoacán"

Of course! That's where the name McCain comes from! It's just that the spelling's been corrupted over the years -- was originally "M'c'cán".

Now I understand . . .

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You're saying he keeps her grass neatly mown?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"You're saying he keeps her grass neatly mown?"

I can't think as I've heard it thus described before, but . . .

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

:-)