{"id":1813,"date":"2008-08-27T11:28:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:19:43","slug":"image-consultant-gives-obama-advice-on-clothing-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/image-consultant-gives-obama-advice-on-clothing-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Image consultant gives Obama advice on clothing choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/obamaingraysuit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1815\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" title=\"obamaingraysuit1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/obamaingraysuit1-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Obama in gray suit\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/sandydumont.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great example<\/a> of what I discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday&#8217;s newsletter<\/a> about how Publicity Hounds can piggyback off the Democratic and Republican national conventions and the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Image consultant Sandy Dumont, The Image Architect, tells Barack Obama that a dark suit worn with a dark shirt and tie makes him look &#8220;forbidding, even shady, because of the shadows they reflect on his face.&#8221; I agree.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Hillary Clinton looked smashing last night in that burnt orange pantsuit, which contrasted nicely with the blue backdrop and really made her stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great example of what I discussed in yesterday&#8217;s newsletter about how Publicity Hounds can piggyback off the Democratic and Republican national conventions and the campaign. Image consultant Sandy Dumont, The Image Architect, tells Barack Obama that a dark suit worn with a dark shirt and tie makes him look &#8220;forbidding, even shady, because\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/image-consultant-gives-obama-advice-on-clothing-choices\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[611],"class_list":{"0":"post-1813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-press-release-topics","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41490,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/41490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}