The Republican Party has spent $150,000 in upmarket designer stores on dressing Sarah Palin for the part of vice-president.
Over the month of September, more than $75,000 was spent in a single shopping spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, and $50,000 in forays into Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and St Louis, on a procession of neat little waisted jackets, pencil skirts, killer boots and patent heels that have enabled Ms Palin to appear in at least one, and sometimes two or three, new outfits a day.
The party also spent nearly $5,000 on hair and makeup.
Another $5,000 was spent at Atelier, a classy men's boutique, suggesting that Ms Palin's husband Todd, jocularly known in Alaska as the First Dude, may also have come in for some sprucing up. The figures have emerged from the Republicans' monthly financial disclosure report for September, listed under a new heading of "campaign accessories".
Since John McCain named Ms Palin as his running mate on August 29, the Governor of Alaska - a former beauty queen contestant - seems not to have been photographed in the same outfit twice.
source:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4991288.ece
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