SNL Costumer: IWRC* Palin Wanted Nicer Clothes

By GottaLaff

Heh. Tee hee. Haha. Ohahahaa! HAHAHAA!!!

The "Saturday Night Live" costume designer Wednesday night revealed the struggle he had in dressing Sarah Palin: she wanted to wear nicer clothes than they had picked out for her, reflecting the new image she has carefully constructed on the campaign trail.

Get real, SNL! If it ain't Chanel, then fuggetaboutit. After all, IWRC* is just plain ol', working class Jane Dom Perignon.

And according to Women's Wear Daily's Irin Carmon, "SNL" costume designer Tom Broecker said Wednesday night that dressing Palin for last Saturday's cameo required a compromise:

Of Palin, Broecker said, "In speaking with her, I had to get her to understand why she needed to wear the same thing as Tina [Fey]. We had gone off and created it for the first time a month ago, a look we identified as Sarah Palin. She had moved on in her own image of herself. I said, 'I know you've moved on ­ you're wearing tighter clothes, more black ­ but this is the character of Sarah Palin.''

The compromise, he said, was Palin returning in her own clothes the second time she appeared on the show to cheer on Amy Poehler's Palin-themed rap.

Whenever we have a theatre student who whines about some outfit they have to wear in a play, we say the same thing over and over, every show, every year: "It's a costume. You'll be wearing it for about two hours. In a play that you wanted to do. Deal."

Hey IWRC, it's a costume. For a show. That you agreed to do. Deal.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"