Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, and I doubt that, you’ve no doubt heard about Palin’s Big Spend for her family’s campaign wardrobe.

I first posted about Ms. Palin’s VP debate suit and who I thought the designer was and where she bought it from a few day’s after the debate based on info I’d received from a local St. Louis source since the VP debate was in St. Louis at Washington University. While I got one part right, the outfit did come from Neiman Marcus, it appears Ms. Palin’s suit, the debate suit, is actually a Tahari suit. A shout-out to Dawn who posted the correction and the link to Nieman’s catalog.*

So, my apologies, to Tahari, my readers, and Ms. Palin. You can view my original post here, and Tahari’s suit in Neiman’s catalog here. I looked closely and it looks very different on Ms. Palin than in the catalog, but four things: Ms. Palin’s suit is black (the suit is available in black, the image from the catalog is blue), and she is wearing a shell underneath the jacket. In the catalog….no shell, plus Ms. Palin’s tie is untied vs the image in the catalog is bow tied at the waist and the length of the skirt is different. In the catalog the skirt is above the knee. Ms. Palin’s skirt that night was below the knee (see Eric Wilson’s article in the New York Times with full length shot of Palin in the suit).

Interesting how those little details can make such a difference. Kudos to Palin’s stylist or dresser, whoever that is. She was/is stylishly appropriate for the occasion.

*Eric Wilson also of the New York Times did a story on Palin’s wardrobe, Look Is the Same; the Labels Have Changed, and named Tahari as well as the designer. I will say that I am hoping that my comments, also posted in Cathy Horyn’s On the Runway blog, did not start this…..that would be truly regrettable.

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