Posted on 12/29/2009 1:16:36 PM PST by kristinn
First Lady Michelle Obama's obsession with very expensive designer shoes is starting to bring up the specter of Imelda Marcos, the shoe-hording former First Lady of the Philippines.
Marcos, who was the wife of Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos, became a global laughingstock when news spread of the more than one thousand pairs of shoes in her closets when the Marcos regime was overthrown by the People Power revolution led by Corazon Aquino in 1986.
The mainstream media has pretty much ignored Michell Obama's designer shoe collection, save for when she visited a soup kitchen wearing garish $540 silver colored sneakers.
A few bloggers have paid attention in recent months to Obama's flaunting of her growing collection designer shoes. Maggief at Free Republic and Jersey Nut have been among the few to keep up with Obama's royal indulgences.
Both posters highlighted Obama's recent extravagant purchase of custom-made French designer thigh-high boots by Robert Clergerie that retail for $850 off the shelf. The story was only reported by foreign news outlets ANI and AFP right before Thanksgiving. According to the articles, Obama also ordered a pair of Clergerie calf-length buckskin boots that retail for about $750.
Obama was photographed wearing the $850 boots as she and her family departed the White House for their $4000 per night Hawaii vacation on Christmas Eve.
While in Hawaii, Obama was photographed wearing $635 designer shoes from Maison Martin Margiela.
Maison Martin Margiela appears to be one of Obama's favorite shoe designers as she was photographed earlier this year wearing a pair of their $725 sandals.
That's about $3500 for five pairs of footwear, or an average of $700 per pair. And those are the ones that are easily found doing quick research. Who knows what's piling up in the White House residence closets.
When Barack and Michelle Obama campaigned for the White House last year, they lectured the American people on how they need to sacrifice their standard of living for the common good.
Byron York reported on Michelle Obama's remarks in Zanesville, Ohio in February 2008 urging people to forego making money in 'corporate America', even though she warned them they would suffer financially:
"Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."
After becoming first lady and enjoying as much of a royal lifestyle as America allows, the wealth-obsessed Michelle Obama warned a schoolgirl who said she wanted be first lady when she grew up that "it doesn't pay much."
With the nation at war and still mired in the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression, the Obamas are living high on the hog with a sanctimonious 'do as I say, not as I do attitude' that is starting to wear thin.
First Lady Nancy Reagan was rippied by the media in the last deep recession for wearing American designers and for obtaining new china for the White House.
There has not been a similar outcry from the press over Michelle Obama's self-indulgent extravagance. We all know why, of course. Michelle Obama is a Democrat.
they are hideous no matter WHO wears them! but particularly bad on Michelle because of her body shape.
It is an "awkward" look. I used to love "empire" style dresses but I never used a belt. :-)
was watching Extreme Makeover on Hulu and the blond designer had a boob belt. Stupid looking even on her. :-P<<<<<<<<<
Why anyone thinks Michelle is a fashion maven to emulate is beyond me. She hits it right on the money sometimes, which is why the rest of the time is so hard to understand. I can’t imagine that blond designer on EHM wearing “the belt”, that’s just weird!
Around the inauguration, M Obama wore a camel colored suit (dress and matching coat) and she looked great. And then she wore that hideous dress at the balls. I just don’t get it. She’s listening to the wrong people about fashion.
I am not totally sure about her clothes but some may have been donated for her to wear for the free adverts for the designers. The china was paid for by donations from friends of the Reagans, not the taxpayers
and black so to say anything would be racist don’t you know!
I don’t think as the First Lady she is allowed to take clothes..that’s considered gifts...I think they have to pay for everything they wear. I am going to try to find this out...be right back!
I think she got a mouth job too,earlier photos of her show her with those fuller fluffier lips that some go out and get fluffed up a la whats her name Lisa Rina something or other.
Can’t wait to see The Oprah wearing a boob belt.
Maybe those duds are loaned then for the event. After all we won’t see the First Frump in that 40K gold gown she wore the night of the party crashers again.
I never thought of that. Hope you can find some info.
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