Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, who some people feel isn't qualified to be leader of the free world because he knows what arugula is, may have once been a Men's Vogue coverboy, but he's no clotheshorse. He buys his suits off the rack! At, um, Burberry.

Obama seemingly admitted as much to a Philadelphia Daily News reporter last month, adding that Chicago tailor Hart Schaffner Marx had offered to make him some suits, but he can never find time for fittings. Perhaps he should have found time: suits by Marx actually average around $700, which is about $200 less than a basic Burberry. (We assume he's not dropping $2k for a high-end model.)

In a New York Times op-ed two weeks ago, Maureen Dowd called the Chicago senator out for refusing to tell a reporter in Indianapolis where he bought his threads, "presumably because it's not J.C. Penny." Female intuition is something else, huh? Obama did mention that he buys "five of the same suit and then I patch them up and wear them repeatedly." Patching up a Burberry? What would Men's Vogue say?