Equality! DeSantis, not a woman, subjected to stupid media meltdown over fashion
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Between Hamas‘s war on Israel and surging murder rates racking our own capital here at home, there isn’t much to celebrate in the news. So, it’s worth noting a bright spot: a new level of gender equality achieved by our noble corporate press.
At last, our firefighting media have suffered a full-scale meltdown over a fashion faux pas not by a woman, but by a male politician. In the exact same tenor as the famous triggering of 2017, when the media made a mountain out of Manolos worn by Melania Trump on a tarmac, the otherwise serious Politico magazine has published a pearl-clutching expose of whether Ron DeSantis is wearing lifts in his cowboy boots.
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Complete with a photographic analysis and testimony from three self-described fashionistas, menswear writer Derek Guy deduced that the Florida governor and Republican presidential nominee is “probably” wearing 1.5-inch lifts in his boots.
“It sounds vain to fret over height in a political race, but DeSantis has reason to worry: Over the last century or so, taller candidates have tended to have an advantage in general elections — with the notable exceptions of former President Barack Obama, who is shorter than Mitt Romney, and President Joe Biden, who is shorter than Trump,” Guy writes.
“There are ways to make lifts look natural, but they require a few trips to a bespoke shoemaker, not buying ready-made cowboy boots in a slightly larger size and slipping ready-made lifts inside, which the experts say DeSantis appears to have done,” Guy continues. “Creating convincing height-boost footwear involves a few things: a boot or shoe that’s made to fit the foot when the heel is lifted, some clever concealment (on a low shoe, this will be a higher topline, so the shoe sits higher on the foot), and some planning (e.g., splitting the difference between the increased height gained from the lift and the cowboy boot heel, so neither is doing the bulk of the work).”
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In tone, Guy’s screed is less spiteful than the apoplexy spewed by that one Daily Beast editor who called DeSantis’s wife Casey a “Walmart Melania” Trump. It’s easily as stupid as the media attacks on Nikki Haley, a fellow 2024 hopeful, for wearing a gold dress to her daughter’s wedding, and it’s as painful a waste of time as the progressive fulmination over Ivanka Trump wearing “incredibly ornamental” and “girlie” attire while representing her father’s administration.
At the very least, this ridiculous standard is not being deployed for openly sexist purposes, but that doesn’t make this immature media obsession any more mature.