President Obama breaks another historic trend in his ‘flip flops’
By ANIThursday, January 6, 2011
NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama seems to be breaking one fashion trend after another as far as presidential casual wear is concerned - he was seen wearing nothing more than a flimsy strip of rubber on his feet in Hawaii.
“I can’t say I’ve seen a president’s toes before. This could be a very usual thing,” the New York Post quoted presidential historian Jane Hampton Cook as saying.
“But I don’t think this is a big deal. Your footwear belongs to the occasion. If you’re on the beach buying your daughter snow cones, I don’t think you can beat him up for this. Now if he’s wearing flip-flops to the State of the Union, that’d be different.”
Presidential historian Doug Wead agreed, saying, “In public, no. I haven’t seen the president’s toes.”
They don’t see any harm in this new exposure of Obama’s though.
“It makes him look like a man of the people, and they [his advisers] probably like that it’s an informal and inexpensive shoe,” Wead said.
But not everyone thinks the same way.
“You don’t think you’re going to see [Russian Prime Minister] Vladimir Putin wearing flip-flops, do you?” said one DC observer.
As a candidate, Obama was snapped in 2008 wearing flip-flops while vacationing with his family in Honolulu.
Ronald Reagan was famously snapped strutting on his way to Camp David in his cowboy boots and even John F. Kennedy was no stranger to sailing in his deck shoes. (ANI)
