Posted on 07/20/2009 7:42:02 AM PDT by IbJensen
Was that a $5,000 VBH alligator clutch that Michelle Obama was carrying in Italy? So the company bragged, absolutely certain it was theirs, until the White House responded that it was not the alligator but the patent, an $875 VBH clutch and not the more expensive model.
To be honest, I didn't even know what VBH was until I saw the headlines about the $5,000 one Michelle wasn't carrying. I love handbags as much as the next girl, but I could never get my head around the idea of spending that kind of money on something that is bound to end up with ink stains. But if Michelle wants to spend hers, more power to her. If she wants to wear $540 sneakers (Lanvin, a ''cult'' item that is bound to end up in one of my local resale stores), I say go for it.
She is not going to solve the recession by wearing Keds. She wears enough clothes from Gap and J.Crew to make the point that looking great doesn't have to be über-expensive (although the things she manages to find at those places never seem to be there when I am), and that half the fun of fashion is figuring out how to copy high-style for less.
What Michelle Obama projects, with her bright colors, body-conscious clothes and keen sense of style, is a woman at her best, looking great, feeling great, being great, full of life, celebrating her country and her family and, yes, herself. The White House was quick to say the bag didn't cost $5,000, but it was still what my mother would have called a very, very good bag, and the first lady didn't apologize for that. Why should she?
She's not 22. She's a grown woman who hasn't faded to beige or placed herself in the background, who isn't embarrassed that she doesn't look 17, who (by all reports) doesn't hate her hips or hide her rear or ask whether the dress makes her look fat before she lets herself like it.
If that isn't a role model, what is?
The other day, I ran into a woman I know who has done very well professionally. I hadn't seen her in a while, and somehow I was taken aback. She looked the way she always had, only worse. I laugh when I see young women trying so (too) hard, because the truth is that when you're young, it's easy. The woman I ran into got to where she is, at least in part, by not getting trapped by the beauty thing.
On the other hand, she was long past the point where she needed to use or hide her sexuality. Now middle-age, she's become one of those women that other women can't look at for five minutes without wanting to do a makeover and wondering why she hasn't. Is she really happy this way? More power to her, but I want younger women to know it doesn't have to be that way.
Michelle is middle-age, too. You can be powerful and beautiful. You can be passionate about politics and clutch bags; you can do your best for your country and look your best while you do. You deserve the sneakers -- if not the Lanvin ones, then ones that make you feel just as good. And we should all ditch black for yellow. Especially in a recession.
Go Michelle.
I remember that time Jackie Kennedy was floppin’ around on the South Lawn with her bra strap hanging out and her cellulite waving in the wind...or was it Nancy Reagan?
Glad you all liked it. I’m not sure if I got the words right, so if anyone can help, I’ll clean it up.
Nauti, that *is* too funny. Where should it go? Maybe to title it? Darn it, I couldn’t find a sound player to imbed with the theme song.
Don’t much care about Frau Obama. At least (to the best of my knowledge) she isn’t putting on airs of being “co-president”, like someone we all could name.
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all.
And the recession won't be solved by demonizing corporations that planned to have meetings in Las Vegas, but had to cancel after facing Obama's public scorn. But, Michelle can single-handedly solve the recession with her outrageously expensive tennis shoes. Corporate America only is "wasting precious resources."
Thank you! That’s the photo comparison I’ve been waiting for. Quick, more salt for Michelle!
“All true, but sometimes she looks good.”
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I think she would look great boarding a plane with a one way ticket to Lower Slobovia and with her jug-eared, fascist husband accompanying her. The following link brings up the proper theme song from the GREAT Roy Clark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8x3LCnYZw
She might have a moment or two, but most of the time she looks like she is really pissed off about something.
I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ no babies Miz Susan an’ I sho’ don’t know nothin’ bout no babies birthed in Kenya or Hawaii neither.
When first exposed to James David Manning I thought he was way over the line. Now I see him as having a very colorful way of putting things but I almost always agree with the essence of what he is saying.
Yeah, but she hates Amerika!
Barf
Are these people blind?????
they are not blind, they just see themselfs as the “gods” of truth. They say it is good and therefore it is good.
ugly is the new pretty.
so sayeth the gods of fashion...
Ok - her fashion style at times leaves something to be desired. But as a woman, I am SICKENED by the attacks on her looks and body. There’s no reason to stoop to that level, none at all.
I don’t like her politics, I don’t like her husband, but I am not going to ridicule her figure because of it.
Susan Estrich must be drinking heavily again...
Wow, I couldn’t even finish that one.
EVERY woman looks at herself in the mirror and asks if that potential new dress or outfit makes her look fat.
ANY woman of Michelle’s stature and means who is caught with her bra strap hanging out down her shoulder knowing full well she could be photographed at any time (and was) is not a fashion icon.
There isn't a MSM magazine her lovely face hasn't been on. Her fashion and style has prompted endless news stories and I will continue to comment until they stop.
I refuse to nod and accept the outrageous accolades this woman receives because of her "toned" arms or anything else. It's ridiculous.
classic. camel toe and all! lol
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