TIOL-DDT 669 · Wednesday, 1 August 2007 · story 6 of 6

Hillary cleavage – storm in the C-Cup

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If you thought that the Indian Presidential election was not all that decent, look at what is happening in the great US of A. The great issue now is Mrs Hillary Clinton's cleavage which she slightly exposed before the Senate a few days ago. The Washington Post recently reported,

1. There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.

2. She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top.

3. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary.

4. There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable.

5. The presidential hopeful revealed a changing fashion sense in the Senate.

6. It was startling to see that small acknowledgment of sexuality and femininity peeking out of the conservative -- aesthetically speaking -- environment of Congress.

7. The last time Clinton wore anything that was remotely sexy in a public setting surely must have been more than a decade ago, during Bill Clinton's first term in office when she was photographed wearing a black Donna Karan gown that revealed her shoulders. It was one of Karan's "cold-shoulder" dresses, inspired, Karan once noted, because a woman's shoulders remain sensuous and appealing regardless of her age.

8. The cleavage, however, is an exceptional kind of flourish. After all, it's not a matter of what she's wearing but rather what's being revealed.

9. Not so long ago, Jacqui Smith, the new British home secretary, spoke before the House of Commons showing far more cleavage than Clinton. If Clinton's was a teasing display, then Smith's was a full-fledged come-on.

10.With Clinton, there was the sense that you were catching a surreptitious glimpse at something private. You were intruding -- being a voyeur.

11.Showing cleavage is a request to be engaged in a particular way.

12.To display cleavage in a setting that does not involve cocktails and hors d'oeuvres is a provocation.

13.It requires that a woman be utterly at ease in her skin, coolly confident about her appearance, unflinching about her sense of style.

14.Any hint of ambivalence makes everyone uncomfortable. And in matters of style, Clinton is as noncommittal as ever.

All this about a 59 year old woman who wants to be President! Are these Americans really crazy?