Why don't female politicians wear dresses?

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WHY??!?

haha

I can sense the tumult to come. In my BONES!

because menswear has a strongly traditional and rigidly delineated code for professional formal dress, and apparel for women in traditionally male professional roles borrows from the same menswear code because there is no comparable code for formal womenswear?

Because women in dresses get asked to stuff gift bags in their "spare" time. Happened to me on Saturday. Did the bagpiper have to spend an hour doing busy-work? I think not.

Thatcher never wore anything but dresses

Someone post a picture of Cicciolina asap.

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepony/BalloonDress.jpg

Was she at that Man City game the other night?

upskirting paps

Are you fucking kidding me? Why doesn't somebody kick him?

ha, the other photogs totally nonplussed

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2170824061_1e92b2ba7b.jpg
Hillary in red Shalwar Qameez ten years ago - would totally bone

i was going to say how chelsea has grown out of her awkward phase but on a moment's reflection -- no, still awkward

They are wearing pants in that photo.

Hillary in red Shalwar Qameez ten years ago - would totally bone

-- Embarchie, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:42 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Q: Why don't female politicans wear dresses?

A: Don't want to get boned by Embarchie.

I cld swear they wore like Jackie-O type dress suits. In fact this was keeping me awake last night, thinking how the only one I could think of who matched Miss Manners' rules for appropriate dress at times of day was Jackie O. And then maybe 'did Jackie O set the standard for female political dress insofar as what one wears as far as dresses or skirted items?' I am thinking: yes.

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Miss Manners v. a first lady.

Thatcher's nutsack woulda stuck out in a pantsuit.

That sentence is mesmerizing.

http://www.featurebank.com/images/lores/man_lores.jpg

Miss Manners is so beautiful and dignified!

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I forgot no one wears gloves or hats anymore.

I do not think this should have invoked so much foolish controversy:

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2006/criticism/works/rice.jpg

those boots are fierce

I dunno I think part of the joy of having a female president would be her FABULOSITY.. and when she wears pant-suits and has awful hair it's like.. whats the point?

xpost It's something about the 2-syllable plosives-to-sibilant run of the nutsack/pantsuit combo.

i think this is what sunk hilary's campaign tbh

the garish pant-suits

and that awful yellow blazer she always wears with the black lining on the collar

The lack of a flag pin.

the collar on the blazer she was wearing during the last debate baffled me

See, men can put on the same fucking identical suit, tie and oxford shirt. All of them! Every single male can dress exactly the same and be a sharp-dressed (or passably professional) man. There's no equivalent instantly acceptable uniform for women, which is a pain in the ass. That said, fucking Ellen dresses better than Hillary. (Ellen dresses pretty nice IMO.)

she needs a cape

lol i have met miss manners

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Oh, to lol @ a video of LB meeting Miss Manners!

she was small and older than i'd expected and very polite in a kind of chilly way

http://www.akworld.net/webblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/cristina_kirchner.jpg

^^^ total cougar

lol @ the moments before that picture popped up

haha i mistook mookie for latebloomer! i am so disappointed

Ellen dresses awesome but she's also built kind of like a teenage boy? Haaaarrrrrd to find flattering pants/suits when you are a normal middle-aged woman (who has been delivered of at least one childrens). Still, I have to agree abt the "power" wardrobe, yikes.

What Not To Wear crew always seem to track down totally decent trouser for the ladies.

Ellen has her own greeting card line now and it is just goofy.

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Planet_Gossip/20070613/293.degeneres.ellen3.061307.jpg

That's awful.

And I love Ellen.

Ellen looks fine, Hillary however looks MC Hammner absurd. SHe seemingly cant shake the WHO WEARS THE PANTS fetish of a certain 60's feminist mindset, cf NZ PM Helen Clark.

http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/EOP/First_Lady/images/raw/christmas_tree.gif

vs.

http://www.lisarein.com/10-08-03-daily-hillary.jpg

I'd still vote for the christmas tree, I think.

eh that's not really a bad pantsuit imo

xpost

http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/Clinton%20401k%20iowa%20ap%20charlie%20neibergall-thumb

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/22/fashion/22cand650.2.jpg

LMAO best pic ever

Í'm loving the 70s-style lesiure (pant-)suit

Is that that two thumbs up movie guy whose name I can't remember right now on the left there? (xxpost)

(Ebert)

I think suits work better on ellen because her body type is more boyish.

I love Ellen.

It would be kind of rad if Hillary did a whole Annie Hall thing for no reason.