Which president designed odd regalia for attendents? Nixon? Reagan? W..

[bobbieinok]

Can't remember when. Just that it was compared to musical comedy costumes.

T may want to recycle it for his parade.

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Nixon

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. They look like Vichy Gov. police

with a touch of Nazi re: the hats.

any clue who exactly designed that outfit??

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Nixon. He got a huge ration of shit for it and the uniforms were scrapped.

People called them the "palace guard" uniforms or called them high school marching band uniforms.

[orangecrush]

4. Tricky

[Princess Turandot]

5. Nixon

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-press-was-not-impressed
Theodore Roosevelt had trouble gaining acceptance for original uniforms. More than half a century later President Richard M. Nixon faced the same objections when he had uniforms designed for White House security. Teased in the press for adopting the costumes of a “banana republic,” the president finally gave up and recalled the uniforms, which were presented for use to the marching band of a local high school.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"

[bobbieinok]

7. Sooo. More correspondances Nixon and T. Nixon uniforms, Trump parade to use them

[dawg day]

8. Nixon had the "Swiss Guards" look

...Like he envied the Pope and wanted some Vatican-level glitz. "The Imperial Presidency" referred to him.

[GP6971]

9. Nixon. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

11. Totally absurd. Good grief. Tacky. Thanks for this revelation, bobbienok. n/t

[mikehiggins]

12. Tricky Dick

Nizon came up with some bizarre designs for uniforms he thought White House functionaries should wear. They looked like something out of 19th Century Europe. The ridicule they aroused caused the idea to be dumped.