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.
Susan got a face lift a few years back...It may have lasted a couple of days!!!!
Michelle seems like the kind of gal who'd want a Ferrari regardless of whether or not she could afford it.I wouldn't own one if I was worth a billion dollars.
No class.No humility.A disgusting individual on so many levels,IMO.
“This “beauty thing” is something that Susan E. never has to worry about.”...” Susan got a face lift a few years back...It may have lasted a couple of days!!!!”
turns out that report was false...she DID have a facelift, but they put it back down after seeing what was underneath...it seems that Beauty is NOT skin deep after all...she’s ugly right to the bone...
Right on!
She hates America, though.
Yep.
Oh, that's really rich coming from Susan...the Queen of face lifts.
Susan can tighten her face all she wants, but the voice remains the same...screechy!
sw
“Susan got a face lift a few years back...It may have lasted a couple of days!!!! “
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A facelift? If I were her, I’d sue the plastic surgeon.
That photoshop is highly insulting to some Klingon chick someplace...
sw
As a parrot owner, I totally agree with you. Most self-respecting parrots I know would freak out at the sight of her.
Yes! Go Michelle! Go back to Chicago and STAY THERE!
Susan, step away from the bottle of scotch...
LOL—FLOTUS has a wedgie too!
“Is the WH violating any ethics rules and/or tax laws?”
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I don’t know the answer to that one, but I will say this: Some have made comparisons between Mrs. O. and Jackie Kennedy — at least one reporter on the last Apology Tour called Mrs. O. a better First Lady than Mrs. Kennedy. This gal wasn’t even around when Mrs. Kennedy was in the White House.
Yes, Mrs. Obama looks good in her expensive suits and what not. But the big fundamental difference between her and Mrs. Kennedy is that Mrs. Kennedy had grace, dignity, charm and class. For all of his philandering, John Kennedy was not about to leave his wife. She was his most valued political ally. During the Cold War, when Nikita Kruschev threatend to bury the United States, he met Mrs. Kennedy and was immediatley smitten. She could do that to people. On that terrible day in Dallas, she was accompanying her husband on a campaign tour. I’m sure just her mere presence caused quite a lot of contributors to write out those checks.
Mrs. Obama does not have any of the qualities Mrs. Kennedy had. She might look good, but she doeesn’t make a patch on Mrs. Kennedy’s backside. Never will.
You couldn't be more wrong.By her own admission she first developed a pride in being an American sometime in the Spring of last year.
Exactly what I was thinking
She dresses like one of those circus monkeys wearing a clown outfit.
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