# Hillary Clinton wears ugly clothes while scrambling for political leverage.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-wears-ugly-clothes-while-scrambling-for-political-leverage/55590 "2001-02-23T13:48:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-wears-ugly-clothes-while-scrambling-for-political-leverage/55590/1 "2001-02-23T13:48:32Z")
Hey, I do respect the lady, she ran for public office and won, kudos to her. And nobody can ever say she hasn’t got guts. But what she hasn’t got, evidently, is a Fashion Adviser. In today’s Chicago _Tribune_, there’s a full frontal top to bottom, head to toe, picture of her standing in front of the Usual Array of Microphones, credited to Kevin Lamarque of Reuters. Such a camera angle does nothing for anybody to begin with, but it isn’t helped by the fact that she’s got this sort of Ellen DeGeneres thing going, black slim trousers, black jacket, white open-front shirt peeking out, and on the feet, clunky black shoes like the ones The Cat Who Walks Alone keeps bringing home from the mall and leaving under the coffee table, and I keep picking up and tossing into her room with a sigh. **UG–LY** , in other words. The head and shoulders shot posted on the Trib on-line page isn’t so bad, it leaves out the black pants and the shoes. So, what, is this the new Power Look for career women? Men in Black? What happened to the tailored suit with skirt and low pumps? Or is a New York thing? This is what career women are wearing in the Big Apple, ninja outfits with ugly mall shoes? Eww. And if any of you “foreigners” wanna know how come she’s speechifying on this _particular_ occasion: > [@](#): > > Sen. Clinton denies knowing brother’s pardon efforts > > By Stephen J. Hedges and Naftali Bendavid > Tribune Staff Writers > > Published February 23 2001, 4:47 AM CST > > WASHINGTON – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton denied Thursday that she knew of her brother’s high-priced, high-powered lobbying effort on behalf of two convicted felons who won executive clemency from her husband in the final hours of his presidency. > > Appearing before reporters in a hallway of the U.S. Capitol, Clinton, a New York Democrat, also said she knew nothing about the work the treasurer of her U.S. Senate campaign did in preparing pardon requests for two Arkansas businessmen. Both were pardoned by President Bill Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-wears-ugly-clothes-while-scrambling-for-political-leverage/55590/2 "2001-02-24T02:53:16Z")
the black pant suit thing has become her sig. she made a joking reference to it in her victory speech. i’m not sure if she is trying for the: “take me serious look,” or just going by gloria’s clothing rules; pants in winter, dresses and skirts in summer. ---
**Author:** ![Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oncle\_Biere\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oncle_Biere_1)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-wears-ugly-clothes-while-scrambling-for-political-leverage/55590/3 "2001-02-24T04:13:55Z")
She’s probably just trying not to have anything people can comment on. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, and even Libby Dole and Janet Reno got mugged by the fashion police. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-wears-ugly-clothes-while-scrambling-for-political-leverage/55590/4 "2001-02-24T14:44:42Z")
**DDG** , I love the juxtaposition of your sig with the second half of your post. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-wears-ugly-clothes-while-scrambling-for-political-leverage/55590/5 "2001-02-24T17:44:24Z")
Thanx, **RC** , I’m kinda out of the loop, didn’t realize that was her sig. Still ugly shoes, though. 😃