The Politics of Clothes

Pulitzer Prize-winning Wash Post fashion czarina Robin Givhan on how the Kennedys are the exception rather than the rule regarding America's distaste for ostentatious political wealth:  The photographs of the Kennedys ooze with wealth and privilege. And yet they are romanticized as political savants and national royalty. They represent a time when this culture seemed more comfortable -- even mesmerized -- with the idea of an anointed family, a ruling class, a group of public servants to whom so very much had been given... But the Kennedys were mostly grandfathered in. Bad behavior was incorporated into the myth. It's hard to think of any political family that so publicly lived a life of luxury with little comment. The Bushes of Kennebunkport certainly revealed their patrician background, but it was met with plenty of comment . . . and criticism and derision.

Decidedly unpreppy is Michelle Obama in a Moschino bow blouse at Kennedy's funeral. 

Look closely.  Michelle's shaking Bill Clinton's hand.  Bubba's got a bald spot...