Thirty years ago congressional wives were advised to NEVER wear sleeveless day dresses to the White House.In 1969 Ted Kennedy's then-wife Joan was on the receiving end of Pat Nixon's evil eye when she wore a minidress to the WH.
This millenium conservative blowhard Ann Coulter got fashion demerits for her sleeveless cocktail dress interview attire.
Washington used to be "Hollywood for the ugly." - P.J. O'Rourke. In 2005 etiquette czarina Letitia Baldridge barked to TIME mag: "Women here cannot be chic."
You can be anything you wanna be in Scamelot. Arms are the new legs. And Michelle Obama's the "coolest" First Lady ever. So sayeth CNN advising women "How To Get Michelle Obama's Toned Arms" :
In these dire economic times it is hard to fathom why Obama's White House social secretary was sitting next to Vogue editrix Anna "Nuclear Winter" Wintour at NY's Fashion Week ogling the pricey duds. Byron York "Michelle Obama's High Fashion In Hard Times" DC Examiner: "Desiree was in New York on a fact-finding mission. She's acting as a cultural liaison for the White House; she's researching fashion and music."
Sure...
Oh, for the good old days of Mamie Eisenhower chic.
ReplyDeleteCNN has to appeal to a mass audience but these three chicks brought me back to the picture of Nancy Pelosi having multiplke orgasms of joy behind Obama during the so called State of the Giving speech.
ReplyDeleteI guess we need something to focus on while the government picks all our pockets.
Yes Michelle is probably a nice person but I'm thinking she still puts her hose on one leg at a time like everyone else.
No, Joe Biden's duties include putting her mesh stockings on for her. Seems they couldn't find an intern willing to debase himself that much.
ReplyDeleteAnyone remember Pat Nixon's good Republican cloth coat?
ReplyDeleteOf course! Although she did have a fur coat--cocker spaniel, I believe, in a Checkers pattern.
ReplyDeleteHahaha!
ReplyDeleteHey we are all dating ourselves. Just four horny old folks trying to remember the good old days. Better watch, we may piss off someone.
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