The $990 T-Shirt

[ClydeR]

Ann Romney went to the CBS Morning Show wearing a t-shirt that cost $990.

That's $990.00, in case you think I missed the decimal. And, yes, it was a t-shirt.

http://www.styleite.com/media/ann-romney-reed-krakoff/

Here's (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/after-ann-romney-how-can-you-wear-a-1000-tee/2012/05/03/gIQAjWRtzT_blog.html) the same t-shirt on a runway model. I think Mrs. Romney looks better in it than the model did.

[Kronius]

Gee, that seems awfully low compared to the $2,000 dress the First Lady was seen wearing in Hawaii.

That's $2,000.00, in case you think I missed the decimal. And, yes, it was a dress.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2079588/From-2-000-dress-1-000-skirt-Michelle-Obamas-lavish-Hawaii-wardrobe-revealed.html

What is your point?

[Luftstreitkräfte]

Gee, that seems awfully low compared to the $2,000 dress the First Lady was seen wearing in Hawaii.

That's $2,000.00, in case you think I missed the decimal. And, yes, it was a dress.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2079588/From-2-000-dress-1-000-skirt-Michelle-Obamas-lavish-Hawaii-wardrobe-revealed.html

What is your point?

So wahr mir Gott helfe, what a sin.

The difference is, the taxpayers likely paid for Mrs. Obama's dress, where the $990 T-Shirt was likely paid for by the Romney's hard earned money.

Both parties are elitists - incapable of governing! They seem quite capable at reading scrolling text. When will a Gemstone IV player become President?

I wonder what price the wives of Mike Gravel and Ron Paul are paying for their blouses. According to recent statistics, the Paul camp has raised a lot of money. Is it going to waste? I think there's something very positive something here.

The media decides what candidates you fawn over and what candidates you ignore. But don't worry, it's often the same in Europe and the rest of the "free" world.

[Tisket]

ClydeR.

Letting others make his point since 2007 all while letting them think they are arguing with him.

Good to see some things never change.

[Parkbandit]

ClydeR.

Letting others make his point since 2007 all while letting them think they are arguing with him.

Good to see some things never change.

What point was ClydeR trying to make to you?

To me, he was trying to say Romney is rich, look at his wife wearing a $900 tee-shirt. He slipped back into his persona to say she looked good in it though.

He certainly was not trying to get people to compare outfits Michelle has worn in the past.. that ruins everything.

ClydeR has been extremely clumsy and lazy in like the last year or so. It's rare that he actually works his persona effectively anymore.

[Tisket]

I don't often read his threads so I'll take your word for it.

[Tisket]

Is it just me or has he turned into something of a spambot recently?

[Asha]

He has been linking literally anything barely politics related, at times.
Shit that's not even worth a discussion.

[Asha]

I forgot, he's been on holiday for 3 weeks so hasn't had a lot of time to proof what he throws up.

[Parkbandit]

Is it just me or has he turned into something of a spambot recently?

It's an election year... now he doesn't even try.

[ClydeR]

Gee, that seems awfully low compared to the $2,000 dress the First Lady was seen wearing in Hawaii.

Did you even read your article? It says Obama's dress was two years old. She obviously bought it at the secondhand store at a huge discount. :)

[diethx]

What the fuck is up with that shirt. The author is right about it being a weird fish-bird thing. What an ugly waste of a grand.

[Parkbandit]

What the fuck is up with that shirt. The author is right about it being a weird fish-bird thing. What an ugly waste of a grand.

Profits from the sale of these tee-shirts support a wildlife preservation fund.

[diethx]

I'd rather just donate a grand to the wildlife fund instead of walking around wearing that shirt. For crying out loud.

At least then I get a deduction, rather than something to wipe my ass with.

[Parkbandit]

I'd rather just donate a grand to the wildlife fund instead of walking around wearing that shirt. For crying out loud.

At least then I get a deduction, rather than something to wipe my ass with.

I was actually just kidding.. I have no idea.

The shirt is butt ugly though.

[diethx]

I was actually just kidding.. I have no idea.

The shirt is butt ugly though.

lol, it totally made sense though.

[Androidpk]

Profits from the sale of these tee-shirts support a wildlife preservation fund.

Madison Avenue?

[Showal]

Who wants to make a bet that high profile political candidates rarely pay for high priced designer garments and are instead given them to promote the brand?

[liloldman]

gonna have to go with Showal on this one...
I mean really....how many of you remember what you paid for your T-shirt, and if you do how many of your close friends know, much less the national press

[Reltov420]

Dear Romney family; Please die of AIDS.

[diethx]

gonna have to go with Showal on this one...
I mean really....how many of you remember what you paid for your T-shirt, and if you do how many of your close friends know, much less the national press

I'm not sure how this relates at all to Showal's post.

However, I'm quite sure if I paid $990 for a t-shirt, I'd be able to remember that.

[Showal]

I'm not sure how this relates at all to Showal's post.

However, I'm quite sure if I paid $990 for a t-shirt, I'd be able to remember that.

Yeah, that had very little to do with my post, if anything at all. Anyways, it appears I am wrong in this case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/ann-romneys-990-t-shirt-is-indicative-of-a-tone-deaf-campaign/2012/05/03/gIQAq0dPzT_blog.html



A representative of the fashion house told ABC News that the shirt is off-the-rack and it had not been a gift to Ann Romney from Krakoff.
“We had nothing to do with it,” the Krakoff rep said. “She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf’s. We definitely didn’t send it to her.”
The rep added: “It's 100 percent a Reed Krakoff shirt, but we 100 percent didn't send it to her. We don't get involved politically.”

Regardless, who cares if a guy worth as much as Romney has a wife that has an expensive shirt? I guess you could use it to paint his family as being "out of touch" with the American public, but a lot of people have somewhat expensive and nice clothes that they too would wear on special occasions, like being on television. Our "Sunday best" I think it's more commonly called. I happen to think this shirt is ugly, but perhaps she likes it or perhaps she was told by some fashion consultant to wear it. I don't think it really matters.

[liloldman]

but would your friends no and would your press secretary let the papers know?

[Tgo01]

Dear Romney family; Please die of AIDS.

Whoa now, where did this come from?

[liloldman]

I the only thing it had to do with your post Showal is I would have made the same bet..even if were wrong...it sounded like a good bet

[diethx]

I agree, the only thing that matters is how ugly the shirt is and do we really want someone so fashionally handicapped in the white house? What would that say to the rest of the world?

LOOK AT US, POWERFUL AND INTIMIDATING, IN OUR POIGNANTLY ODD FISH-BIRD ATTIRE.

[Showal]

but would your friends no and would your press secretary let the papers know?

If I ran in the circles that Romney runs in, my friends would probably no [sic] and the press secretary probably didn't let anyone know. I'm sure it wasn't hard to figure out.

[diethx]

but would your friends no and would your press secretary let the papers know?

I don't have a press secretary.

[liloldman]

WTF...doesn't everyone have a press secretary....
and yes is an ugly shirt
and "know" i have not had enough coffee this morning :)

[Showal]

I agree, the only thing that matters is how ugly the shirt is and do we really want someone so fashionally handicapped in the white house? What would that say to the rest of the world?

LOOK AT US, POWERFUL AND INTIMIDATING, IN OUR POIGNANTLY ODD FISH-BIRD ATTIRE.

Leave it to diethx to get right to the meat of the issue here!!!!

Also, I wouldn't be shocked if their press secretary was like, "Yo, ClydeR posted a thread saying dogs b against Romney and this shit b hittin the memes HARD, wear something animal related and make it look like you're for animals" and Ann was all, "Damn, I got just the thing" and then wiped up some spilt coffee with a 4 billion dollar bill.

[diethx]

Basically.

[Showal]

This just in, after the phone call, Ann bumped "We Fly High" by Jim Jones in one of her two cadillacs and called her butler at home to bump it in the other cadillac in sync. Ballin.

For reference, http://youtu.be/L2JfY-nVaqg

I'd actually vote for Romney if this was his rally song and he flaunted his money more like a real fuckin g.

[Ryvicke]

This just in, after the phone call, Ann bumped "We Fly High" by Jim Jones in one of her two cadillacs and called her butler at home to bump it in the other cadillac in sync. Ballin.

This was a prime opportunity to mention the Romney's car elevator. It lifts up their cars so they have more room to park more of their cars. But only at 1 of their 9 houses.

[Parkbandit]

This was a prime opportunity to mention the Romney's car elevator. It lifts up their cars so they have more room to park more of their cars. But only at 1 of their 9 houses.

What's it like to always be jealous of what other people have? It must keep you up at nights, knowing you will always have so very little.

IT'S NOT FAIR!!!

[Tisket]

Shit, if I had the money I'd make them look like poor white trash. So I have no moral high ground to criticize how anyone else spends their money.

Now if I can just hit on the fucking lottery numbers I'd prove it. Hear me, God? This is Tisket.

[Gelston]

She obviously should have been wearing a three wolves howling at the moon shirt. I don't know what she was thinking.

[Tisket]

I'm going to buy the company that produces those 3 wolf shirts when I get rich and burn it to the ground.

[Drunken Durfin]

I'm going to buy the company that produces those 3 wolf shirts when I get rich and burn it to the ground.

Silly Tisket, the Three Wolf Moon shirts are impervious to fire.

[diethx]

I thought I read somewhere that fire only makes them stronger. Something about reinforcing the cotton threads...

[Androidpk]

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[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

This just in, after the phone call, Ann bumped "We Fly High" by Jim Jones in one of her two cadillacs and called her butler at home to bump it in the other cadillac in sync. Ballin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlDBi0cyIA

I may or may not be guilty of something similar, but that's because I'm sure no one wants to hear a white girl rapping along with B.I.G. while driving home from the grocery store...

[Stanley Burrell]

He has been linking literally anything barely politics related, at times.
Shit that's not even worth a discussion.

Heh.

[Ceyrin]

Why is this in the politics section of this forum?

Where are our fucking moderators?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llsdfpxoYr1qz7fz0o1_500.jpg

[Showal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlDBi0cyIA

I may or may not be guilty of something similar, but that's because I'm sure no one wants to hear a white girl rapping along with B.I.G. while driving home from the grocery store...

Talking to your mother or your diary is not gangsta. Where the fuck is jaroc to let us know how the real brothas do things.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Why is this in the politics section of this forum?

Where are our fucking moderators?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llsdfpxoYr1qz7fz0o1_500.jpg

Mods?

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwfu6azNCc1r3zat8.gif

[Ceyrin]

Is RDJ having an epiliptic fit there or what, Nikki?

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Is RDJ having an epiliptic fit there or what, Nikki?

I think it's a coke seizure, actually, but I'm not 100 percent on that.

[SHAFT]

Ann Romney is kinda hot

[Androidpk]

Ann Romney is kinda hot

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SwrqH-K3-X4/T4bs-VDxkkI/AAAAAAAAp50/2MP0xPnK43c/s1600/AnnRomneyVampire.jpeg

[SHAFT]

If that is really her I retract my statement. The link Clyde put up has an awrite lookin older blonde. Maybe it's the shirt. Maybe 990 dollar shirts make you look a bit more attractive

[diethx]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SwrqH-K3-X4/T4bs-VDxkkI/AAAAAAAAp50/2MP0xPnK43c/s1600/AnnRomneyVampire.jpeg

Please say that's 'shopped.

[leifastagsweed]

http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-server/image/product/19554707/view/1/type/png/width/378/height/378/i-got-99-problems-but-my-swag-aint-one-t-shirts.png

[ClydeR]

Who wants to make a bet that high profile political candidates rarely pay for high priced designer garments and are instead given them to promote the brand?

Whoa! That's quite an accusation. If Romney has been accepting designer clothing as a campaign contribution and not reporting it, then we have a really big scandal here.

[Gweneivia]

The difference is, the taxpayers likely paid for Mrs. Obama's dress, where the $990 T-Shirt was likely paid for by the Romney's hard earned money.

I find this kind of a sexist remark, why is it assumed to be taxpayer money when Michelle Obama is fully capable of making her own money? According to their 2006 tax return her income (not including his income, just hers) was over 300k. I think she can afford to buy her own 2k dress if she wants to. Using her own "hard earned" money.

[Tgo01]

I find this kind of a sexist remark, why is it assumed to be taxpayer money when Michelle Obama is fully capable of making her own money? According to their 2006 tax return her income (not including his income, just hers) was over 300k. I think she can afford to buy her own 2k dress if she wants to. Using her own "hard earned" money.

True. I find it funny that people are trying to portray the Romneys as being "out of touch" with ordinary citizens when the Obamas are part of the 1% themselves.

[Back]

"Hard earned" according to who?

[RichardCranium]

Leave it to diethx to get right to the meat.

Basically.

[4a6c1]

I'm pretty happy with my fish bird attire but when I'm not I do the charitable thing and donate it to rich people. Hey also I opened this thread with maniacal glee expecting another $7 dollar gas thread and then....sadface

[Showal]

Whoa! That's quite an accusation. If Romney has been accepting designer clothing as a campaign contribution and not reporting it, then we have a really big scandal here.

Calm down, clyde.


Yeah, that had very little to do with my post, if anything at all. Anyways, it appears I am wrong in this case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/ann-romneys-990-t-shirt-is-indicative-of-a-tone-deaf-campaign/2012/05/03/gIQAq0dPzT_blog.html



Regardless, who cares if a guy worth as much as Romney has a wife that has an expensive shirt? I guess you could use it to paint his family as being "out of touch" with the American public, but a lot of people have somewhat expensive and nice clothes that they too would wear on special occasions, like being on television. Our "Sunday best" I think it's more commonly called. I happen to think this shirt is ugly, but perhaps she likes it or perhaps she was told by some fashion consultant to wear it. I don't think it really matters.