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The 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference, aka CPAC, officially starts this Thursday. And while staunch-conservatives-not-RINOs like Erick Erickson may consider it “stupid” — something about “libertarian leaning serial whining twitterati of twenty-somethings” — evil-minded left-of-rightwing bloggers are already sharpening their pixeled stilettos about “the political equivalent of a Furry Convention”.
A number of them have helpful embedded the Pinterest graphic explaining (to quote Dave Weigel) “Your Guide to Dressing Like A Decent Person at CPAC” (golf shirts, yes; tshirts, NO!). But only NYMAG fashion blogger Kat Stoeffel seems to have gone behind the curtain to namecheck the image designer:
… Adrienne Royer (whose website says she’s a digital communications veteran who has worked “for figures such as Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Rick Santorum“)…
Sarah Palin and Rick “Sweater Vest” Santorum”! Because if there’s anyone in politics of whom the very mention brings to mind the concept of understated elegance…