- Naughty Monkey red peep-toe patent-leather 3 1/2-inch "Double Dare" pumps at Endless.com or Amazon.com ($89).

- Rimless frames, by Kazuo Kawasaki (style series 704, color 34) in brushed silver and choice of colors: framesdirect.com ($344).

- Silver silk shantung Valentino Gravani jacket: www.saks.com ($2,500).

That's nearly $3,000, and it doesn't include the skirt, the pearls or the two-process haircolor.

But if you want to "go Palin" - without joining the welfare rolls - owner Tiffany Coliazzi of Name Droppers Resale Clothing & Furniture Company says she can outfit you in style for less.

"Oh, that's so easy," Coliazzi says.

Her consignment store is packed with conservative designer duds - Escada, Valetino, Burberry, just about anything you could find in the department stores in bigger cities. Salesperson Nicole Cowley scoured Namedroppers and came up with some Palinesque alternatives:

- Black slingback glossy high-heeled peep toe by Michelle D. ($29.90).

- Kelly Graham silver shantung silk three-quarter-sleeve jacket with silver buttons ($27.99).

- Liquid knee-length pencil-cut silk skirt with cummerbund waistband ($60).

Now, about that hair . . .

If you want the authentic signature Palin hairdo, you've got some work to do.

For Tina Fey's recent Saturday Night Live gig, The New York Times reports that it took a team of wigmakers at Bob Kelly's on 46th Street between 40 and 50 hours to get Palin's look - "a French twist with a '60s bouffant kind of thing, and bangs" - just right.

But a simple online purchase will cost you between $46 and $100 at wigsalon.com.

Be Biden

OK, OK. It wouldn't be fair to offer tips on how to dress up like the Vice Presidential candidate of one party and entirely ignore the other.

Granted, Sarah Palin is visually more interesting than Joe Biden, but Jason Sudeikis showed that it could be done, and well, on the Oct. 4 edition of Saturday Night Live .

The basic constraints for impersonating one of the longest serving members of the U.S. Senate are: combed-down white wig (with receding hairline), dark navy suit, sensible brown shoes.

Fairly or not, Joel Stein of New York Magazine says that the Joe Biden look is merely a twist on the car salesman look (hey, my father sold cars!). "Grab your hair, and slick it all the way back. Get really close to everyone you talk to and touch them a lot! And refer to yourself in the third person."

Or you can just pick up a Joe Biden paper mask at www.buycostumes.com for a whopping 99 cents or buy a life-sized cardboard version of Biden to carry around with you at www.fantasytoyland.com (sale price: $27.50)

But remember to talk in the third person no matter what you do.