By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director
Published: 5:25PM BST 06 May 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/hilaryalexander/7685641/General-Election-2010-The-war-of-the-wardrobes.html
Clothes became weapons of mass seduction during the election campaign forSamantha Cameron, Sarah Brown and Miriam Clegg.The three political wives clearly had the same fashion statement: give the high street the majority vote and go soft pedal on designer labels; no one wanted to be outed as a reckless splurger on status labels. SamCam comes in first in fashion polls. Blessed with a near-model figure, even though four months’ pregnant, long legs and a face that has a love affair with the camera. Sarah Brown comes in third, suffering under the handicap of being several sizes larger and seven years older, although she sometimes looked smart, too often revealed a tendency for skirts that were too tight, too full or too short, a weakness for horizontal stripes which do no favors to the pear-shaped, and an unfortunate fondness for belted cardigans.
I feel sorry for Sarah Brown because it must be hard to compete with woman who are almost ten years younger if it comes to appearance. Aging is not something a woman her age wants to be reminded of. Luckily there still is hope for Sarah Brown a facelift, liposuction, tummy tuck and maybe Botox can change a lot. Thank god for plastic surgery.
