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Hillary abandons glamour as senator
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WHEN Hillary Clinton was running for the US Senate she looked immaculate: Her hair was perfectly coiffed, her make-up was liberally and painstakingly applied and she had a freshly pressed trouser suit for every day of the week.
Now that she is safely ensconced in the Senate, she has gone through another image change. She is back with the natural look. The hair has lost its blow-dried bounce, the make-up is gone and she has been wrapping herself in huge woollen shawls.
In a front page story on Friday, The Washington Times described her as frumpy. However much she might hate it, Mrs Clinton has never been able to escape discussion of her appearance and when her popularity surged after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she decided to exploit the obsession and went for an image overhaul.
Photographed by Annie Liebovitz she appeared somehow sleeker, prompting Newsweek to call her foxy. Esquire magazine ran a piece praising her. Unkind neighbours in Chappaqua, New York, sniped that she must have had cosmetic surgery.
A television reporter suggested this week that her hairstyle used to be glamorous. Mrs Clinton has learnt that this is not a subject she can now just scornfully refuse to discuss.
"You know, sometimes depending upon the time that I have, it will look one way, and sometimes the other way. Got to keep you interested. I don't want to keep you bored,"she told the New York Daily News.
Mrs Clinton's hairdresser, Isabel Goetz, from Salon Christophe, said that she had not been calling on her for blow-drying duties since she started in the Senate.
What is unclear is whether this is part of a deliberate strategy to project a hard-working image in the Senate, or that she simply couldn't care less. Mrs Clinton's spokesman refused to be drawn. "We are here to talk about what's on her mind, not what's on her head,"he said.
During the campaign Mrs Clinton prompted a flurry of reports when her hairstyle withered for a while into a dowdier bowl cut dubbed the St. Joan for the Suburban. This was believed to have been an attempt to appeal to the upstate New York women who were ambivalent about her.
(SD-Agencies)
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