Re: The New White House Tour Dress Rules...

[Hissyspit]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1464335

Can I Wear This? In this picture (from 2005) I am wearing dress shoes, slacks and a formal long-sleeve dress shirt.

Just wondering...

[Captain Angry]

1. You have my permission.

Awesome shirt.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. It's consistent with the Constitution -- nothing else matters. nt

[fed-up]

3. if you change it to "our country is being run into the ground by sh*theads"

[Hippo_Tron]

4. The new rules (which are just enforcement of the old ones) only apply to the west wing

And you don't get to see the west wing on tours. BTW, nobody had a problem with blue jeans in the west wing during the Clinton Administration. When the Bushies came in, the made a big stink about how they were going to restore a "professional atmosphere" to the White House.

[Hissyspit]

6. Yeah, bad subject line on my part. But I was just being rhetorical, of course.

Although, the CBS article mentions tourists and talks about tourist reactions. Is it just for the West Wing?

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Someone pointed it out in the other thread that the article was misleading

And that he contacted someone at the WH and they said they wouldn't turn away tourists.

[Raine]

5. No T Shirts

you'd have to button the long sleeve shirt over it. ;-)

[hisownpetard]

7. I wouldn't worry about it, since Bush et al have changed the White House

into a true House of Ill-Repute.

[dalaigh lllama]

8. Eh? Did you say the House of Ill-Repuke???

:o

[kskiska]

9. This is what started the problem

White House footwear fans flip-flop kerfuffle

Back and forth it goes with the tale of the Northwestern University women’s lacrosse players who wore flip-flops to meet the president.

Flip: “Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,” said one of the players, who wore a rhinestone-bedecked, $16 pair to a July 12 ceremony at the White House honoring the team for its NCAA championship.

Flop: “Don’t even ask me about the flip-flops,” said her mother. “It mortified me.”

Flip: Everyone was dressed up for their picture with the president. “Their hair wasn’t askew, they were clean-cut kids,” said one fashion expert. “They’re athletes, so the whole concept of casual dressing on the part of athletes dictates that’s the way they should dress.”

Flop: This is the buttoned-down, dignified Bush White House, where the president has forbid jeans and required neckties in the Oval Office and women are instructed to be “appropriately dressed.”

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8670164/