The Dress
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 at 3:28 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
I don’t feel like blogging today. I’m working on a post-election plan, but it hasn’t come to fruition yet, and I’m feeling a little in limbo right now, just watching things play out.
However, I do want you to know that I have an opinion on “the dress” (that would be the dress that Michelle Obama wore to the victory party): It’s hideous, making Obama look like a fat lady caught in an explosion. What was she thinking? We will assume that this was a neophyte’s mistake, and that she will never again be caught in something so awful.
Stick to J. Crew, Michelle. You can’t go wrong with the affordable classics — and considering that your husband’s whole candidacy is based on class warfare, it would be tacky for you to attire yourself in costly designer clothing on a regular basis (especially if it’s ugly costly designer clothing).
Indeed, considering that your husband seems to have Marxist tendencies (although we hope he’ll govern to the center), why don’t you take a page out of the Soviet playbook and dress the way Mrs. Brezhnev and Mrs. Andropov did in those far away glory days of the Soviet Union? (And yes, that’s an old joke, but those over 40 vividly remember the almost hyper-frumpiness that characterized the wives of Soviet premiers during the 1960s and 1970s.)
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Book, my all-time Soviet faves were the Press sisters, Tamara and Irina, who brought home many a gold medal for the USSR track team.
Turns out they later tested positive for male traits.
I was in such a funk from that news that I didn’t recover fully until Madeline Albright appeared on the scene and restored my faith in frump.
My problem with Michelle isn’t her bad fashion sense (who woulda thought that a cosseted yuppie wouldn’t know how to dress?), it’s her perpetual gloom.
That woman is ANGRY.
Am I just peering through the wrong section of my trifocals, or does it look like the fires of Hell are burning on her chest? If you don’t want to take it all the way to Hell, perhaps a bubbling cauldron?
Those Soviet Premier wives convinced me that all these Russian women must all be awfully plain. Then Glasnost came…and wow!
judy,
Your vision of a bubbling cauldron just made me have my first pang of pity for Barack.
I beg to differ. Maybe this is my male lack of fashion sense, but I thought her dress was OK. Perhaps a little daring considering the plain Jane standards that most high officials’ wives wear, and perhaps more appropriate for a cocktail party than the event she wore it for, but what the hey. I also liked the red and black combos of all four Obamas, perhaps because those were my high school colors.
What I found unacceptable was not Michelle Obama’s clothing choices, but her husband’s remark about Nancy Reagan. That was uncalled for. Sarky, sneering, arrogant. At least he had the sense to apologize THIS time for putting his foot in his mouth.
(”I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any séances.”) Which she didn’t do at the White House.
I liked her choices better when she was copying Jackie-O! And just to get it out in the open and off my mind, am I the only one who thinks a few lessons in how to walk like a lady would help MO carry off whatever ensembles she wears? There may be a physical limitation that causes her not to bend her knees so her stride is stiff and ungraceful.
Someone pointed this out today….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anarchist_flags_and_stars.svg
Also that it looked very like the markings on a Black Widow spider…
The anarchist flags and stars seems a bit of a reach, but it definitely has a black widow look. Are we looking at another Hillary? Will Obama end 8 years in the White House (or 12 or 16), and then Mrs. Obama take over?
>>The anarchist flags and stars seems a bit of a reach>>
Maybe. Did you know that the designer was Cuban??