Think Tricia Nixon. Think Mamie Eisenhower.

Above we see the family of John Roberts, the president’s Supreme Court nominee. No, they’re not waxworks in Madame Tussaud’s Museum. This is actually a live photo!

We’ve long had the suspicion that Perfect Republican Families all come from the animatronics division of Stepford-Wife, Inc. Apparently the fashion editor at the Washington Post, Robin Givhan, thinks so too. Always the first column in the Post we read, Ms. Givhan has a knack for decoding the nuances of Fashion as Culture Message. We think she outdid herself in her column last Friday (July 22, 2005.) We hope she will forgive us for reprinting it at full length. Stuff like this is too priceless to excerpt in bits and pieces: (more…)