Calling all deniers
A Washington Post reader requests a ruling:
I noticed that Sarah Palin often does not wear nylons/hose, including when she accepted her nomination for vice president. I didn’t notice whether she wore hose for the debate. I also do not wear hose often, even in a professional setting (I’m an attorney). If you don’t have to wear nylons with skirts when you are accepting the nomination for vice president of the United States, when do you?
An answer — not necessarily the answer — from one of Mark Steyn’s correspondents:
Palin doesn’t wear pantyhose Mark. That’s one of the reasons the old fems don’t like her — unlike them, she actually has legs good enough to bare.
If I remember correctly, Gloria Steinem, while she indeed doesn’t like Palin, has, or at least had, very nice stems. (She did manage to get herself hired as a Playboy Club “Bunny” to conduct undercover research, after all, and Hef’s minions tend to notice such attributes.)
Incidentally, the WaPo’s Janet Bennett Kelly punted:
I’m not sure I would hold up Sarah Palin as someone whose fashion judgment I’d follow.
(Provoked by Marianne Brennan.)
McGehee »
17 October 2008 · 5:31 pm
Hey, if Biden didn’t have to wear pantyhose…
Dick Stanley »
17 October 2008 · 11:11 pm
Ah, ha. This must the reason for all the AP photos of Sarah’s legs and feet. Silly me. I thought they were trying to denigrate her as a mere woman.
CGHill »
18 October 2008 · 9:43 am
AP might have been inspired by Reuters, which seldom passed up an opportunity to run a shot of Condoleezza Rice’s legs. (Princess Sparkle Pony has laboriously documented this phenomenon.)