Really, TieGate Is Nothing Compared to This

The ever-relevant Elisabeth Bumiller give us some belated fashion notes on last week's presidential news conference:

1. There was body language, too, between Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, and Karl Rove, the president's chief political aide (who. . . inexplicably turned up in the East Room with holes in the ankles of his socks).

Inexplicably? It's what all the evil geniuses are doing these days! Holes in socks=the new black.

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