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Presidential Tailor Does Not Care For Obama’s Current Wardrobe

Such an embarrassment, that he wore this out in publicBarack Obama, he’s a pretty hot ticket, right? Looks pretty good in clothes? Doesn’t wear his suits all back on his shoulders so that there’s this awful two-inch gap between the back of his neck and his collar like George Bush always did? Wrong. Famous DC tailor George de Paris says that Obama wears cheap suits and looks like a goon. Monseiur de Paris will fix this, though, by making him a $3500 suit, like he makes for all the presidents. WHEEEEE. [Vanity Fair]


3:30 PM on Wed March 11 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. ManchuCandidate says at 3:41 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Barry: “The suit don’t make me look good. I make the suit look good.”

  2. Cicada says at 3:41 pm, March 11th, 2009

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

    Don’t listen to him, Barry!

  3. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:41 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Hell, I always thought the $3500 suit was a rite of passage.

    I say go for it Obama! Take that passage into rich-guy douchebaggery!

  4. French arrogance. Still the best in the world.

  5. loudmouthredhead says at 3:45 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Barry de Kenya does not need fashion advice from a ghey.

  6. digibal235 says at 3:47 pm, March 11th, 2009

    As if Barry wasn’t already swimming in pussy.

  7. SayItWithWookies says at 3:47 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Make him something nice, that matches his keffiyeh.

  8. Doglessliberal says at 3:49 pm, March 11th, 2009

    George de Paris is a pretentious asshole who is just pissed that Barry didn’t kiss his wrinkled old butt. Barry wears Hickey Freeman, that you can buy at Nordstrom’s. http://www.hickeyfreeman.com/website/dept.asp?s_id=1&dept_id=4088&WT.svl=deptnav2

  9. Come here a minute says at 3:49 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Is this the same tailor that installed a secret debating device in the back of George W. Bush’s suits? Fuck him.

  10. V572625694 says at 3:50 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Where’s Mr Blackwell when we need him most, to bitch-slap “George de Paris”?

  11. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:50 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Monsieur Paris suce le dick d’âne.

  12. Jerk Cade says at 3:50 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Will it have the square transmitter thingy between the shoulder blades?

  13. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 3:51 pm, March 11th, 2009

    No more trips to the Men’s Warehouse for Barry. I guarantee it!

  14. Jukesgrrl says at 3:53 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Doglessliberal: Would that be the same Hickey Freeman that is requiring a bailout? Glad to see Hopey doing his part to save this Chicago icon.

  15. A Fine National Imbalance says at 3:54 pm, March 11th, 2009

    elitism, feh

  16. wheelie says at 3:55 pm, March 11th, 2009

    OK, de Paris, make him a suit and Obama can give his old one to your President Sarkozy. You’ll just need to take the leg up a little, maybe by a FOOT or so.

  17. Serolf Divad says at 3:55 pm, March 11th, 2009

    He would rather give away a pair of black socks than see someone wear a black suit with brown socks

    It’s true. I once walked into his store with a black suit and brown socks and he was all: “Mon dieu! Sacre bleu! Eeez no good. Ç’est pas possible. Eeet cannot be. I am shocked, shocked to find ze gambling eez going on ‘ere! Oooh, la, la, ooh, la, la!”

  18. Hooray For Anything says at 3:55 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Well, at least he’s not showing off his bare arms all the time…

  19. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 3:56 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Also, Msr. de Paris… Yves Saint-Laurent called. He wants his gay back.

  20. Doglessliberal says at 3:58 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Jukesgrrl: Rochester, NY company, actually.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickey-Freeman

    But I think they are in Ch. 11, yes, so a bailout would make sense.

  21. Did he not get the message with the nixing of private jets and resort ‘team building’ parties with five-diamond hookers? Now is not the time for $400 haircuts nor $3500 suits.

  22. Sussemilch says at 4:02 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Blingee is cheaper.

  23. Uncle Glenny says at 4:04 pm, March 11th, 2009

    I thought it was Hart, Schaffner & Marx, in Chicago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Schaffner_%26_Marx

  24. facehead says at 4:04 pm, March 11th, 2009

    The guy is from Honolulu (Kenya), we’re lucky he doesn’t wear coconut hats and muumuus.

    shaka bra Barry!

  25. President Beeblebrox says at 4:06 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Uh-huh. Anyone with “de” in his name is either a fictional character, a la George Fortescu Maximillian “Max” de Winter from “Rebecca”, or teh ghey.

  26. freakishlystrong says at 4:07 pm, March 11th, 2009

    How about we just body paint a suit on him? BRB…

  27. Uncle Glenny says at 4:08 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Uncle Glenny: I mean, Marx, right? Makes sense.

    Oh, I see: Hickey-Freeman is one of their brands…

  28. Doglessliberal says at 4:10 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Uncle Glenny: I think we are both right. H-S-M bought H-F, which kept operating independently in Rochester (employing a lot of people) and still selling under H-F label.

  29. cranky says at 4:11 pm, March 11th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: ha! another fag joke! i mean what else could you make fun of about this jackass? you rock!

  30. kbanginmotown says at 4:11 pm, March 11th, 2009

    NoNoNo, Barachk! Zees zoot you arh waihring…it ees, how you say?…a peess of sheet! Eet make you loook like a shjanitor! Tabernac c’est tsee! Deed I rheelee say zat?

  31. Violenza says at 4:13 pm, March 11th, 2009

    “He was nice,” de Paris says of Blair. “He was in the White House … I was there fitting President Bush and he ordered a suit—the same as President Bush.”

    Go figure that Blair wanted to be twinsies.

  32. Doglessliberal says at 4:13 pm, March 11th, 2009
  33. Mustang says at 4:15 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Barry look any hotter I don’t know what I do.

  34. freakishlystrong says at 4:16 pm, March 11th, 2009

    This is annoying, here, we have one of the best looking (the best) POTUS’s in the world, and some frog has to run down his suits? Shit.

  35. freakishlystrong says at 4:17 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Doglessliberal: They’re already scared shitless of him!

  36. ProfessorJukes says at 4:17 pm, March 11th, 2009

    I like how he mentioned his “very young girlfriend”… who he probably met online and who he dresses up in lovely little dresses… after she comes home from geometry class.

    President Beeblebrox: Or Rebecca De Mornay?

  37. Vanity Smurf says at 4:19 pm, March 11th, 2009

    V572625694: Mr. Blackwell died last year. He’s currently in hell waiting for Joan Rivers to show up… she’s late.

  38. Doglessliberal says at 4:20 pm, March 11th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: true, but it would be so much fun to freak them out more….

  39. Doglessliberal says at 4:21 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Vanity Smurf: She won’t die because all her parts keep being replaced by younger parts and/or silicone. Her brain might go, but her body will stay intact and functioning.

  40. McDuff says at 4:25 pm, March 11th, 2009

    How dare our middle-class President dress like a peasant! The shame!

  41. octupletsmom says at 4:29 pm, March 11th, 2009

    I say Barry should wear nothing but Hawaiian shirts now. Sweaters in winter. Make the Repukes and the suitmaker guy have conniptions.

    I make very nice Hawaiian shirts myself if I do say so.

  42. freakishlystrong says at 4:29 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Doglessliberal: I’m thinking “Huggy Bear”…

  43. proudgrampa says at 4:41 pm, March 11th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: You’re right! Fuck the French!

  44. shortsshortsshorts says at 4:42 pm, March 11th, 2009

    The President would look wonderful wearing shorts.

  45. sarcasticusername says at 4:44 pm, March 11th, 2009

    this guy is clearly nuts, hopey couldn’t possibly look any hotter in a suit than he already does (plus $1500 for a suit isn’t exactly peanuts, especially in these hobo times). if anything, michelle is looking into getting him some fuglier suits to keep the sluts away.

  46. Doglessliberal says at 4:47 pm, March 11th, 2009

    sarcasticusername: speaking of which, the WaPo noted the White House was taking applications for interns…..

  47. It’s a set-up. Barry accepts $3500 French suit; the next day FOX and fiends puke all day on “OBAMA wears $3500 elitist French suits ZOMG!1!!”

  48. An American in Toronto says at 5:03 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Michael: You know, GOB, you might want to start acting like the President. You’re beginning to alienate some of the employees.
    Gob: Yeah, like the CEO has to worry about alienating the employees…Yeah, like I’m going to take a whiz through this $5,000 suit. C’mon!

    C’mon!

  49. sarcasticusername: Time to bring the zoot suite back into fashion.

  50. swarm of bees says at 5:14 pm, March 11th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: Don’t you mean merde?

  51. populucious says at 6:44 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Je crois que George de Paris vastly overestimates l’importance de George de Paris.

  52. bitchincamaro says at 7:06 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Ha. I lived across the street from a maison de dry cleaning in NY called “Mike of Paris”. Related?

  53. Red Zeppelin says at 7:07 pm, March 11th, 2009

    For someone who was, I am pretty sure, a character in a Monty Python sketch played by John Cleese, he sure has some strong opinions. I am looking forward to him going on to say that Barry’s father was a hamster and his mother smelt of elderberries.

  54. bitchincamaro says at 7:13 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Red Zeppelin: …and farting in our general direction?

  55. As silly as this guy is, I’d love to see Barry in a suit that actually fits him. Because seriously, the suits he wears? Not made for a dude with the figure of an anime character - reed-thin and all legs.

  56. Red Zeppelin says at 7:24 pm, March 11th, 2009
  57. Come here a minute says at 7:25 pm, March 11th, 2009

    AxmxZ: Oh no you di’n't!

  58. An American in Toronto: win
    Skyrockets in flight!

  59. wheelie says at 7:54 pm, March 11th, 2009

    AxmxZ: His birthday suit. We want to see him in that.

  60. Oh yes I did! Come on Barry, put on something that flatters your little waist!

  61. TexasCowGirl says at 8:28 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Doesn’t this French fool know that Barry has to wear special suits specifically made so they won’t melt off of him from his hotness?

  62. mylesfromnowhere says at 9:22 pm, March 11th, 2009

    any suit but a lawsuit.

  63. slinkimalinki says at 9:47 pm, March 11th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: he is indeed one of the best-looking president of the united states’s in the world.

  64. donner_froh says at 10:17 pm, March 11th, 2009

    ProfessorJukes: Rebecca De Mornay played Lady DeWinter in “The Three Musketeers”

  65. S.Luggo says at 10:30 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Traditional Islamic dress requires few alterations. Maybe a twee more padding on the right shoulder to accommodate the weight of a grenade launcher and an inside pocket for holding the Communist Manifesto. - Sen. John Cornyn

  66. S.Luggo says at 10:42 pm, March 11th, 2009

    Come here a minute: If George’s “secret debating device” means a fifth of Wild Turkey, then yes.

  67. OzoneTom says at 11:08 pm, March 11th, 2009

    AxmxZ: You’re right, with his physique he’d look much better in a frock-coat and stovepipe hat.

  68. OzoneTom: With his physique, he could probably pull off a polyester disko suit…

  69. Captain Swing says at 7:31 am, March 12th, 2009

    After all zeez years of sucking up to ze prezidentz, finally one comes along who could sell a million of my overe priced suits with une little photo… and he tell me to pees off.

    I am George de Tool, and I haz le sadz. Merde.

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