Sarah Palin On SNL: Costume Designer Says She Wanted Nicer Clothes

The "Saturday Night Live" costume designer Wednesday night revealed the struggle he had in dressing Sarah Palin: she wanted to wear nicer clothes than they had picked out for her, reflecting the new image she has carefully constructed on the campaign trail.

While Palin's transformation from hockey mom to fashion plate has raised eyebrows, her "SNL" character, played by Tina Fey, has remained firmly in the red jacket. And according to Women's Wear Daily's Irin Carmon, "SNL" costume designer Tom Broecker said Wednesday night that dressing Palin for last Saturday's cameo required a compromise:

Of Palin, Broecker said, "In speaking with her, I had to get her to understand why she needed to wear the same thing as Tina [Fey]. We had gone off and created it for the first time a month ago, a look we identified as Sarah Palin. She had moved on in her own image of herself. I said, 'I know you've moved on ­ you're wearing tighter clothes, more black ­ but this is the character of Sarah Palin.''

The compromise, he said, was Palin returning in her own clothes the second time she appeared on the show to cheer on Amy Poehler's Palin-themed rap.

Sarah Palin dressed in red for the opening skit (per "SNL" wishes):

Then, later, Sarah Palin dressed in black (the compromise):

Comments

[okjoel]

They even had to explain Saturday Night Live to her.

[TroubleNYC]

It's all gone to her head!

[pb28]

Image is everything except when it comes to Plain. Image is a fable

[starcasmdotnet]

She looked really uncomfortable the whole time, like she was going to be sick.

http://starcasm.net/archives/742

[CTmom13]

I cannot wait for Nov 5th so this lady will be GONE

[Agentprovokatur]

My my my, if "Let them Eat Sarah Lee Cake Palin" didn't like the clothes they offered her she should have just taken her trusty RNC Bloomingdale's credit card down the street and rung up a few more thousand dollars worth of "Charitable Donations" in clothes.

[Ennealogic]

Great. Tight black clothes. Skirt to mid-thigh. Spiked heels. Just what are you campaigning to be, Ms. Sarahaha? The new neocon tramp? Are you trying to get all those closet g.a.y.s in your party back on track to be hetero? Is that your real role? You must know that the main reason given in your support has everything to do with your appearance. Not your intellect. Not your experience. Not your compassion. Not your wisdom. Not your ability to actually DO the job you are running for. JUST what you look like, in your sparkly pumps and skin tight clothes.

Sorry, thanks but no thanks, Ms. Sarahaha. Go back to Alaska (and I sincerely am sorry for Alaskans when I say that).

[LibKitty]

Um... I think she may be getting ready to enter that biker beauty contest next summer. I pretty sure Sarah thinks that she can at least beat Cindy.

[jjjuice]

I'm sick of her. She needs to go. Really, it's time.

Vote Obama/Biden. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.

[kbunkboy]

I am not a fan of Sarah Palin, but I feel much of the criticism directed toward her is unwarranted character assassination. Those are acts no better than what Karl Rove. would conceive. Inuendoes hurled at former vice-president Dan Quayle destroyed his reputation. American politics should be better than that!

[FaceYourFears]

If she's not tough enough to take it....she needs to go home!

[ConcernedCitizeninVa]

I agree but i also think that she has brought all of this on herself. If she is the independent woman that she wants us to think she is, then she would take control of herself and be herself, whoever that is.

[wadda]

Sorry, she's 6 weeks past warranted criticism and she didn't get the message to go home. Only those who are ambitiously blind and deaf do not heed the need to remove themselves from the public arena.

This one needs to go away so that one can lead a constitutionally based government.

Obviously this is becoming an intelligence test.

[berrycooda]

What a tattle tale.....D­o you feel better now that you tried to belittle S. Palin. She is used to dressing better
than the imitation on SNL.

When you put the two close together, T. Fey has a much narrower face than S. Palin.

The thing that makes them look so much alike is the hairdo and the glasses.
Take them off and T. Fey is still the T. Fey on her other show.

[VOTER]

You are too sad to even be funny.

Seek help!

[jorge4u]

No one has tried to belittle Palin. She's done that herself. But thank you for playing.

[YellerDawg]

How do you belittle someone that small already? She's had her fifteen minutes. Buh bye, now.

[FaceYourFears]

Sarah is much heavier than Tina

[jdw1981]

Besides being much stupider-looking, Sarah has to wear $13,200 worth of makeup to approximate the Tina Fey look.

[MarciL]

No, she is NOT used to dressing better, that's the whole point. Have you seen pictures of her before McCain picked her? She looked like a regular housewife.

That $150,000 wardrobe change has sure spoiled her. I bet she'll hate to give it to charity.

[jdw1981]

She won't give any of it back to charity. When a Republican promises anything, don't hold your breath.

[seattlejanet]

The disconected "ness" of this woman is truly astounding­....


that this race could is a close one, even more astonishing.

[betheliza]

she looks snarky and fake no matter what she wears. i don't see as it matters.

[fedupwithrepublicans]

This does explain how they could get the entire family packed and on the road after the surprise selection by McCain to be his VP Candidate. They didn't have to pack any of their normal duds! Just go shop at the most expensive, most elite stores in Minnesota. (No sales tax on Clothing here!)

[JenIA]

Just had to pull this up... Remember Tina Fey declaring that "b*tch is the new black", referencing HRC as the b*tch that would get things done??

Tracy Morgan's retort is especially relevant now given little Miss Sarah being bitchy about wanting to wear black.

"b*tch may be the new black, but black is the new president!"

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/SNL_Tracy_Morgan_defends_Barack_Obama_0316.html

[jdw1981]

Like many a Republican who's drunk the Kool-aid, she now thinks she's whit e-tr ash royalty.

[CaptainStormfield]

Thats good.. I liked John Stewarts show yesterday.­. They are a family of Grifters.. They found an elderly man and then.. the relatives started showing up. I was waiting for him to haul out "The Riches". Maybe Palin is really a gypsy con artist...