Fashionistas haven't had this much to say about political wardrobes since Jackie Kennedy inhabited the White House.
That's because three of the women on the front lines of the 2008 presidential race -- Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin -- all dress with their own sense of style, even if, in the case of Palin, it's anti-style.
Palin herself told Vogue magazine, "A reporter once asked me about it [her appearance] during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wearing my hair on top of my head and these schoolmarm glasses."
While each woman approaches fashion from a different angle, all three exude strength and confidence in the way they dress.
To find out more about what the clothes say about the women, ABCNews.com spoke to Jennifer Goodkind and Jayne Chase, the co-hosts of the radio show A Fashionable Life, which airs on WGCH 1490-AM in Greenwich, Conn., as well as the Web.
Sarah Palin
Chase: She said she's a hockey mom and the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick. I'm a hockey mom, and by and large that's a serious Polar Tech crowd. She said it, lipstick is probably the only fashiony thing she has an interest in. Fashion is not a part of her program or her package.
Goodkind: She let her hair down last night but it was still very contrived. It was a "downdo." She has that agenda of appealing to every woman schlepping her kids to school. Fashion is not going to be the focal point for her or her campaign, for that matter. If she gets too glammed up, she's going to move away from the voice that's her strength. Still, she should lose the schoolmarm glasses and trade them in for a modern frame, lose the "updo" and go for a haircut that has movement and frames her beautiful face. She has a lot to work with. Play up, never play down.
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