Michelle Obama makes a splash with $4,000 designer boots

The Hill ^ | 12/20/18 | Judy Kurtz

[yesthatjallen]

Michelle Obama’s footwear is causing a fashion frenzy, after the former first lady sported sparkling $4,000 designer boots.

The “Becoming” author stepped out in the eye-catching pair of Balenciaga boots on Wednesday at a Brooklyn stop on her nationwide book tour. Former “Sex and the City” star and fashion designer Sarah Jessica Parker served as the celebrity guest moderator for the chat about Obama’s best-selling memoir.

The gold, thigh-high boots retail for $3,800, and several sizes were sold out or low in stock on at least one site selling them after Obama's appearance.

Multiple fashion gurus and first lady watchers went wild for the lux look:

The current first lady has also drawn attention for her footwear. Last year, Melania Trump's press office slammed the media for focusing on her high heel shoes as she boarded Air Force One to head to Texas to visit areas damaged by Hurricane Harvey.

In a headline, The Mirror called the stiletto-style shoes the "most inappropriate clothes imaginable."

Stephanie Grisham, Trump's communications director, said in a statement to CNN at the time, "It's sad that we have an active and ongoing natural disaster in Texas, and people are worried about her shoes."

Grisham also knocked the press for another instance of homing in on what Trump was sporting on her feet in a CNN op-ed last week, writing, "When Mrs. Trump invited children from a local Boys and Girls club to help plant vegetables in the White House garden, the media chose to focus on the cost of her shirt and the fact that her shoes were clean."

[Mr. K]

are we sure that’s not her real skin?

[GOPJ]

Her money - her business... it’s a free country after all...

[Gasshog]

Thigh high?

In this case weenie high.

[SkyDancer]

And another Motel6 shower curtain goes missing.

[fella]

she’s got that lump hidden well this time.

[C19fan]

Those are the most hideous women’s boots I have seen in my life.

[Beowulf9]

I was wondering what to say here but that is incredibly accurate.

Works for me.

[Albion Wilde]

I believe this woman has been unjustly savaged for the looks and figure she was born with. But her fashion choices often merit scorching criticism.

And these boots? Just plain trashy.

[AmericanMermaid]

It really does! Makes you wonder if she was trying to distract from the fact that he’s huge and needs to diet.

[Albion Wilde]

PS

Huge, lumpy women should not wear shiny fabric.

[JKOWBELLE]

Talk about tacky... OMG!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[SERKIT]

Shoe size: Half-back.

[gathersnomoss]

Oh look, a bruised Chaquita banana. Very fashionable....

[PghBaldy]

I agree. She looks like an alien overlord.

[yesthatjallen]

Her money - her business... it’s a free country after all...

True but the story is the fawning reaction.

Read the Twitter comments at the link.

You'd think the only thing women think about is what other women wear.

Girl Power!

[rktman]

Austin appears to be feeling a little randy baby!

[Daffynition]

They shipped her the wrong shoes to go with that shower curtain.

[yoe]

Can't help but wonder what part of the security wall on the border with Mexico those boots would cover in $$$$. Eye catching is hardly how most of the nation will describe these boots......Michelle does not have the right accouterments I.e., figure for such exposure.

[hal ogen]

michelle/michael, the hermaphrodite, has no concern for the poor children. How many poor, starving children could be fed for the $4,000 cost of those ugly boots on that shameless sow? So cold hearted...insensitive!