All the time that went on. People used to deride Gore for it. Lots of snarky columns from the likes of Maureen Dowd and others. Some men have to deal with it. Others don't. reagan got lots of comments every time he wore a brown suit. Made brown suits respectable, actually. And of course, while all that went on, EVERYTHING Nancy wore was an issue. But with her, it fed into the "Queen Nancy" stuff that we're seeing to a lesser extent with ayn wrongney.
The bad part was that Nancy Reagan WAS a First Lady while ayn only aspires. And Nancy had champagne tastes and a coterie of designers waiting on her all the time and a strong sense of entitlement and imperiousness. Anyone remember the "Reagan Red" china? She had the White House china replaced with this design in gold and red (her favorite color, which came to be called "Reagan Red"
. Even though she claimed it had been funded by private donations (more of their rich friends), and didn't cost tax money, it still sent a Marie Antoinette message - she's acquiring all this fancy expensive china, I think it was said to be about $1000/place setting, while the economy was a mess and people were out of work and couldn't afford a decent meal. Very ayn wrongney-ish, insensitive, didn't really think it through, didn't fully realize what impression it would make on the press or the public, and THEY weren't going to see it as "oh this wasn't tax money, it was a donation." They weren't having any of that. It just reminded everybody of the elite, ultra-rich, have's-and-have-more's circles in which they traveled - that the average Joe and Jane didn't.
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