Loosening His Tie (Sort Of): NYTimes

Quoted in NY Times:

APART from the trip to Washington to visit his new home, President-elect Barack Obama has been looking pretty casual of late. Instead of the familiar dark suits and solid dress shirts, he has variously worn a baseball cap with a North Face warm-up jacket, jeans and white sneakers, and a black windbreaker that some observers assumed was leather but, more likely, was nothing fancier than cotton.

Several things happened when Mr. Obama surrendered, if briefly, the formality of his suit. You realized what a celebrity he is. After all, we know celebrities not so much by what they wear on the red carpet as by what they wear at the airport or to run an errand: a baseball cap and some version of a track suit. more