Palin may have bought some of her clothes from a New York fashion trade show

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If this is the case....how do you RETURN clothes bought at a trade show??
Article says it may explain why the Atelier men's shop could not find record of a sale equaling the FEC website sale amount


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/a-new-wrinkle-in-palin-clothing-hubbub/

One outstanding mystery of the hubbub over the $150,000 spent by the Republican National Committee to outfit Gov. Sarah Palin was several thousand dollars in charges at Atelier, which many had initially assumed to be a high-end men’s store in New York.

But a fashion-conscious reader recently pointed out to The Caucus that there was another possibility, Atelier Designers, which produces a series of trade shows for women’s boutique buyers, including one that ran Sept. 13-15 at the Doubletree Hotel in Times Square. Indeed, the address listed in Federal Election Commission records, “7th and 47,” corresponds with the location of the show, not the men’s store on Crosby Street downtown.

One potential discrepancy is the date of the $4,902.05 charge in campaign finance records is Sept. 10, but the dates in these filings do not always exactly correspond with when the charges were made. If it is true that the purchases were actually made at the trade show itself, this appears to be in tension with statements Ms. Palin has made in which she insisted the clothes were only bought for her use at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, which ran Sept. 1-4.

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The McCain campaign has said about a third of the clothes were returned after the convention and much of the rest has never been worn. The R.N.C.’s most recent campaign finance filing for the first half of October does not appear to show any record of returns. Officials said the remaining clothes would be given to charity after the campaign is over.