Sarah Ditches Expensive Duds for Jeans

Sarah Palin returns to her own clothes 'from Alaskan charity shop'

Sarah Palin has said she has stopped wearing clothes from the controversial $150,000 (£97,000) wardrobe bought for her by the Republican National Committee.

By Tom Leonard in New York Last Updated: 3:55PM GMT 27 Oct 2008

The Republican vice-presidential candidate told a crowd in Florida on Sunday that she was "back to wearing my own clothes from my favourite consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska".

To ram home the point, she even talked her audience through her outfit and accessories, mentioning earrings that were a gift from her husband's Yup'ik Eskimo mother and "a $35 wedding ring from Hawaii that I bought myself".
By the time she had got to an evening event in Asheville, North Carolina, she was dressing in jeans.

News of the vast sums spent on clothing and accessorising Mrs Palin and her family in expensive stores such as Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue offered a stark contrast to Mrs Palin's image as an average "hockey mom" and has caused the Republicans considerable embarrassment.

"This whole thing with the wardrobe, I try to just ignore it because it's so ridiculous," she said on Sunday.

"Those clothes, they are not my property, just like the lighting and the staging and everything else the RNC purchased. I'm not taking them with me," she said.
Ellen Arvold, who runs Out of the Closet, Mrs Palin's favourite store in Anchorage, told CBS News she had been wearing similar clothes on the campaign trail to those she bought in her shop.

She refused to say how much the Alaska governor usually spends on clothes but estimated that she could buy the store "three times over" for $150,000.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3268736/Sarah-Palin-returns-to-her-own-clothes-from-Alaskan-charity-shop.html

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