OSWIECIM, Poland, Jan. 28, 2005
Cheney's Attire Draws Ire
VP's Parka & Boots At Auschwitz Ceremony Called Fashion Faux Pas
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Play CBS Video Video Anniversary Of Auschwitz Flames of remembrance are all that's left of the horror that embodied Auschwitz, Mark Phillips reports. World leaders met to observe the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation.
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Cheney, center right, is flanked by his wife Lynne, right, and Israel's President Moshe Katsav, center left, at Auschwitz ceremony (AP)
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Cheney at Auschwitz (AP)
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Cheney replaced the zipped-to-the-neck green parka he sported in Thursday's blowing snow and freezing wind with a more traditional black coat — red tie and gray scarf showing underneath — for his tour of Auschwitz on Friday.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney's look at the deeply moving 60th anniversary service as "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."
"Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood," Givhan wrote in Friday's Post, also mocking Cheney's knit ski cap embroidered with the words "Staff 2001" and his brown, lace-up hiking boots. "The vice president looked like an awkward child amid the well-dressed adults," she said
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