When President-elect Barack Obama met with John McCain on Monday to talk teamwork, his tie was blue.
When Obama met President George Bush at the White House to talk transition the Monday before that, his tie was blue.
Bush’s was too. No news there.
But, after a campaign defined by “change,” few political style watchers guessed that Obama would perpetuate this necktie trend that Bush propagated some eight years ago: powder blue as the new power red.
Whether Obama’s choice is calculated or subconscious, good reasons exist for hewing to blue.
“It’s the color attached most to dependability and constancy, a message that Americans want to believe in troubled times,” said Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute and author of “Color: Messages & Meanings” (Hand Books Press, 2006). “Obama has used blue most consistently [with this idea], representing a kind of grace under fire.”
Read the entire story “Obama’s call for change doesn’t extend to his blue ties” by Wendy Donahue on ChicagoTribune.com
Blue ties shown are from one of my favorite places to buy both shirts and ties, Thomas Pink.
Senator O’Bama photos all from ChicagoTribune.com
