OSWIECIM, Poland -- Fashion watchers say Vice President Dick Cheney stood out at ceremonies Thursday commemorating the lives of those who died in two Nazi concentration camps.

While most of the world leaders wore black coats in the chilly weather, Cheney wore an olive parka with a fur-trimmed hood, boots and a knit cap that said, "Staff 2001."

Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney's look as, "The kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."