Too Flip

IN the photo he stands at ease, a handsome man in a suit and tie and exuding executive amiability, in a sea of beaming, bare-armed co-eds in sundresses and flip-flops. The dissonance between the cut of George Bush’s presidential jib and the flat-footed décolletage surrounding him is not quite as striking as that between Robert Palmer and his sulking supermodels in the old music video, but it comes close.

“FASHION FOOTNOTE: ‘YOU WORE FLIP-FLOPS TO THE WHITE HOUSE?!'” ran the headline in the Chicago Tribune. It reflected the horror of a brother of one of the members of Northwestern University’s championship-winning lacrosse team at the sight of his sister’s bare toes.

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Meghan Cox Gurdon

Meghan Cox Gurdon writes regularly about children’s books for the Wall Street Journal.

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IN the photo he stands at ease, a handsome man in a suit and tie and exuding executive amiability, in a sea of beaming, bare-armed co-eds in sundresses and flip-flops. The dissonance between the cut of George Bush’s presidential jib and the flat-footed décolletage surrounding him is not quite as striking as that between Robert Palmer and his sulking supermodels in the old music video, but it comes close.

“FASHION FOOTNOTE: ‘YOU WORE FLIP-FLOPS TO THE WHITE HOUSE?!'” ran the headline in the Chicago Tribune. It reflected the horror of a brother of one of the members of Northwestern University’s championship-winning lacrosse team at the sight of his sister’s bare toes.