This thread.....damn.

(08-20-2016 11:25 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  This thread.....damn.

dude. it's saturday night. they can't all be winners.

All I can say is that if she is having shart attacks like this below, she needs to have that hot sauce in her purse confiscated.

The bigger smock tops replace the jacket she wears a vest.

(08-20-2016 11:23 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  What female politician of any party campaigns normally in a dress or a skirt?

Here are the Republicans I looked up on google images

Jan Brewer normally doesn't
Joni Ernst usually is pictured in pants too
Susana Martinez seems to favors skirts

Just a personal choice, I suppose. I'd also note that I rarely see female execs wearing a dress.

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A decade ago, I participated in a 'training convention' for a group that wanted to identify LGBT persons that might run for office (or who might be convinced to run for office). They took us to a city, and had us spend a couple of days being taught how to do fundraising, polling, networking, media, messaging, and public presence. I never decided to go the candidate route. I actually wasn't terribly interested in running for office (I suspect they asked me to come along in an attempt to get a big donation). I did, however, find the whole experience fascinating. And the networking was really good.

One of the sessions was on 'how to dress'. They spent about 10 percent of the time on the men (suits or khakis with a conservative shirt - biggest thing for the men - no jeans - even at a county fair), and 90 percent on the women. They said that it wasn't fair, but in order to win you have to visibly look like the role you want to attain. And women have a much harder time of it. Basically, they pretty much said "Do not campaign in a dress", a "skirt with a blazer is okay" and a pant suit with a blazer is always good.

I think the issue is that dress sends the subconscious message of housewife, which is also seen, politically, as passive. Fair? No. But if you're running to win and not to make some sort of sartorial statement, put on a skirt with a blazer or a pant suit.

I guess you rarely see female execs (unless you only see that certain age group, roughly 35-45, where it was out of style to wear skirts when they were in college).

(08-21-2016 02:01 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

Apparently gross incompetence leads to gross incontinence.

(08-21-2016 08:14 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-20-2016 11:23 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  What female politician of any party campaigns normally in a dress or a skirt?

Here are the Republicans I looked up on google images

Jan Brewer normally doesn't
Joni Ernst usually is pictured in pants too
Susana Martinez seems to favors skirts

Just a personal choice, I suppose. I'd also note that I rarely see female execs wearing a dress.

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A decade ago, I participated in a 'training convention' for a group that wanted to identify LGBT persons that might run for office (or who might be convinced to run for office). They took us to a city, and had us spend a couple of days being taught how to do fundraising, polling, networking, media, messaging, and public presence. I never decided to go the candidate route. I actually wasn't terribly interested in running for office (I suspect they asked me to come along in an attempt to get a big donation). I did, however, find the whole experience fascinating. And the networking was really good.

One of the sessions was on 'how to dress'. They spent about 10 percent of the time on the men (suits or khakis with a conservative shirt - biggest thing for the men - no jeans - even at a county fair), and 90 percent on the women. They said that it wasn't fair, but in order to win you have to visibly look like the role you want to attain. And women have a much harder time of it. Basically, they pretty much said "Do not campaign in a dress", a "skirt with a blazer is okay" and a pant suit with a blazer is always good.

I think the issue is that dress sends the subconscious message of housewife, which is also seen, politically, as passive. Fair? No. But if you're running to win and not to make some sort of sartorial statement, put on a skirt with a blazer or a pant suit.

I guess you rarely see female execs (unless you only see that certain age group, roughly 35-45, where it was out of style to wear skirts when they were in college).

I've never seen governor nikki haley when she wasn't wearing a dress. carly fiorina was almost always wearing a dress. just off the top of my head.

We're calli g Carly fiorina a politician again? I thought we saw through that error

(08-21-2016 11:36 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  We're calli g Carly fiorina a politician again? I thought we saw through that error

Are you calling the Cank a politician, other than an opportunistic grifter?

You haven't seen through that error?

They have deeper pockets.

(08-21-2016 11:36 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  We're calli g Carly fiorina a politician again? I thought we saw through that error

Well she is an "executive."

(08-22-2016 01:01 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(08-21-2016 11:36 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  We're calli g Carly fiorina a politician again? I thought we saw through that error

Are you calling the Cank a politician, other than an opportunistic grifter?

You haven't seen through that error?