Pulitizer Prize-winning Wash Post fashion high priestess Robin Givhan has the last word on Michelle Obama's highly inapropriate traveling garb: The image of Obama in her shorts was strikingly modern.... Fashion can be an indispensable tool for delivering a message about approachability and empathy. But that doesn't mean it would be a good idea for the first lady to wear a pink velour Juicy Couture track suit when she travels, no matter how real and modern and comfortable it might be.... When the first couple disembarks from Air Force One, military personnel stand at attention, shutters click and minions scurry. It's not as though they are climbing out of their own personal RV with their backpacks -- like celebrities caught unawares by the paparazzi.
Ultimately, the first lady can't be -- nor should she be -- just like everyone else. Hers is a life of responsibilities and privileges. She gets the fancy jet. She has to dress for the ride.... Her very public descent from Air Force One would have been less jarring -- what with two stern servicemen standing ramrod-straight and the bulletproof presidential "beast" waiting -- if her attire had been more polished. Was a suit required? A fancy dress? Or any kind of dress, for that matter? Absolutely not. This is 2009, after all, not 1950. But there's a difference between shorts that could be worn jogging and those that one might wear to a backyard barbecue.
I have said so much about this woman and hate to do it again. But she is the worst - and continues to leave bruises on her image.
ReplyDeleteFirst the old man wears nursing home jeans to a baseball game now we see Michelle in her PTA mom shorts. Two fashion statement for the price of one family.
ReplyDeleteRecall they got on Jenna Bushwhacker's butt about looking like a scruff on the first plane on her tript o france with her mom. Article was a good, professional critique. It's one thing to dress like that when the arrivals and departures are informal, but when the photogs are thier, its formal whether or not you want it to be.
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