A custom Vineyard Vines tie with the logo of Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan Republican ticket worn by state Sen. L. Scott Frantz, R-36th District.
Who are you wearing?
Mitt Romney.
No stranger to outfitting candidates, even those who purport to buy their dress shirts from Costco, Vineyard Vines is still in fashion when it comes to the battle for the Oval Office.
Romney’s campaign ordered these custom threads for financial booster types.
It features the overlapping “R” logo of the Romney/Paul Ryan ticket, which liberals have sarcastically compared to the Rolls-Royce trademark.
We spotted Scott Frantz sporting one recently in Greenwich, the hometown of Vineyard Vines founders Ian and Shep Murray.
Frantz has hosted Romney three times at his Riverside home for campaign fundraisers this election cycle and the last.
That probably deserves a matching cummerbund.
Vineyard Vines, which is based in Stamford, likes to tout itself as tie-partisan.
Four years ago, it filled a custom order of ties for the inauguration of President Obama.
Legend has it John Kerry went on a $10K shopping spree during the 2004 presidential race ordering custom ties from the preppie clothier.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has been known to wear them, too.
A spokeswoman for Vineyard Vines said she was not at liberty to discuss who’s on the tie maker’s client list this election.
Imagine that, a gag order over haberdashery habits.
What would Anna Wintour think?
The lefty Vogue editrix won’t be wearing Romney, come to think of it.
Vineyard Vines is famous for its whimsical, nautical-themed ties, many of them pastels.
Most of them run $75.
Linda McMahon is also customer.
The GOP Senate hopeful’s aides have been spotted wearing Vineyard Vines fleeces and toting canvas bags embroidered with “Linda” and thumbnails in the shape of the state of Connecticut.
Last December, Vineyard Vines made a political statement of sorts with a T-short poking fun at the Occupy Wall Street movement that proved to be a hot seller.
