medieval princesses for mccain

Part of our window display is a shirt hanger with room for a hat on it. What shirt and what hat are displayed is very important, because people always come in and ask for whatever is there. We wanted to put an Obama shirt on it so that people will buy the last of them before the election, and we wanted to put a Halloween hat on it so that we won't be stuck with leftover Halloween hats.

When we first did this, my boss was very worried about sending an unintentional message by pairing Obama with a negative hat. She decided on the pirate hat, because in her opinion people like pirates. ("Pirates are good, right? Swashbuckling.") Upon selling the last pirate hat, she began fretting again... now there were very few choices left.

- sort of Egyptian hat with a snake on it. "NO! Not the snake charmer hat."
- medieval princess hat. I rejected this because it would not stay up.
- furry hat with cat ears? "People will think it's a monkey."
- various witch hats.

I persuaded her that a witch hat would be okay. She wanted to veto it, but I rallied: "Witches are okay. There are good witches. Like Glinda."

We went to look at the display from outside.

"I don't know," she said.

"I think it's fine," I said. "It's not saying Obama is a witch. It's saying, I'm a witch and I support Obama. Witches for Obama!"

She liked this and we came back in laffing and yelling about Witches for Obama, which made the merchandiser look at us like we were insane.

medieval princesses for mccain

Part of our window display is a shirt hanger with room for a hat on it. What shirt and what hat are displayed is very important, because people always come in and ask for whatever is there. We wanted to put an Obama shirt on it so that people will buy the last of them before the election, and we wanted to put a Halloween hat on it so that we won't be stuck with leftover Halloween hats.

When we first did this, my boss was very worried about sending an unintentional message by pairing Obama with a negative hat. She decided on the pirate hat, because in her opinion people like pirates. ("Pirates are good, right? Swashbuckling.") Upon selling the last pirate hat, she began fretting again... now there were very few choices left.

- sort of Egyptian hat with a snake on it. "NO! Not the snake charmer hat."
- medieval princess hat. I rejected this because it would not stay up.
- furry hat with cat ears? "People will think it's a monkey."
- various witch hats.

I persuaded her that a witch hat would be okay. She wanted to veto it, but I rallied: "Witches are okay. There are good witches. Like Glinda."

We went to look at the display from outside.

"I don't know," she said.

"I think it's fine," I said. "It's not saying Obama is a witch. It's saying, I'm a witch and I support Obama. Witches for Obama!"

She liked this and we came back in laffing and yelling about Witches for Obama, which made the merchandiser look at us like we were insane.