When will it be safe to discuss Michelle's dress choice last night?

[burythehatchet]

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[Dorian Gray]

1. Probably never

Though I'll bite. I love her and her usual style. I wasn't a fan last night. Though I did love that they kept the color all in the black and red family!

[shadowknows69]

2. I aint touching that one

You're a braver cat than I BTH

[burythehatchet]

7. yeah, but you're thinkin it

:D

[Lerkfish]

3. why do you NEED to?

bigger things on our plates.

[Snotcicles]

54. Depends on your give-a-shit level. nt

[mnhtnbb]

4. NOW--while she may still be looking at options for Inaugural events.

Please, Michelle, don't do this again.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Let it go. Let's start right here with stopping that crap about women. nt

[okieinpain]

16. yeah rickey smiley and those nutts were on the dress deal this

morning. lol, people will never change.

[Captain Hilts]

24. It trivializes women to assume they have to be decorative in a specific way. nt

[burythehatchet]

31. you see slights, insults and offenses where none exist

it must be a heavy burden to carry through life.

[Captain Hilts]

32. A man just can't 'get' the whole burden that fashion/clothes are for women.

Michelle looks great.

[okieinpain]

44. not to the fashionista, I'm pretty sure she is going to be under heavy

pressure to dress the sarah/cindy way. by that I mean designer name crap.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Never

there is already a post running anyway ; http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7783455

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Where did you get that picture!?

I looked everywhere for a good in focus picture of the First Family and couldn't find one!

[burythehatchet]

9. googled it, news option instead of images

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Which words did you use for your search? n/t

[burythehatchet]

21. the international links are usually better

http://news.google.com/news?q=michelle+obama&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1

[ColbertWatcher]

39. Thank you, I was hoping there was a bigger version.

The other photos I've seen from Hong look out of focus.

I'll keep looking.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

10. I love Michelle, but playing paintball right before the speech maybe wasn't the best choice.

;)

[burythehatchet]

14. omfg

:rofl:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

33. Cleaning my keyboard

:spray:

[Captain Hilts]

34. That's funny!

[Tansy_Gold]

11. Now.

I didn't like it. Red across the bust, red down the front, it looked almost like some weird fertility cult costume.

Sorry. JMHO.


TG

[Democat]

18. I love her and the entire Obama family, but...

On TV it made her look pregnant at first glance - that circle on the front. Very strange choice!

[NeedleCast]

48. That's what I though as well

On the other hand, the whole black widow design will probably have freepers peeing themselves in fear.

[MadrasT]

50. OMG

"freepers peeing themselves in fear" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

And that's always a big plus! :toast:

[rzemanfl]

12. The first thing I said when I saw her was "nice dress" -the two

women I was with did not agree-I am male. It is nice to see a first lady that doesn't appear drugged. I didn't notice the black and red theme with the girls until this morning.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. My wife said she looked pregnant at first glance. n/t

[Gin]

20. maybe the dress has some personal significance we are not aware of.

I didn't like it either....but I liked everything else about the night!

[burythehatchet]

23. that's what occurred to me - like she has had it for many years and made a promise

or something

[hamsterjill]

67. The four of them

When you look at all four of them, the dress makes more sense.

At first, I really didn't like it, but then when I saw them all together from left to right - Barack, in black, the youngest next to him in black, the oldest next to Michelle in red, and then Michelle in red and black - I liked the dress better. They were dressed as a "family".

[countmyvote4real]

26. That's what I thought.

But it was just my mind trying to justify something so wrong.

On the plus side, I think there are designers across the country and around the world that do not want to see this happen ever again. (Maybe it was a cry for help.)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. i loved the dress, lisa hated it.

so i guess we can discuss it, but whats the point?

:hi:

[burythehatchet]

28. I'm hoping there's an intervention - I'm sending the WHat Not to Wear crew

over to her house.

:)

:hi:

ITS ALL GOOD!!!!!!!

[BR_Parkway]

19. black man won over red voters? interesting, subtle - I like it...

[likesmountains 52]

22. I usually don't comment about clothes but I couldn't stop thinking of a black widow spider..

The red hourglass mark...

[Captain Hilts]

38. Oh, my!

[Tansy_Gold]

41. SPOT ON!!!!

(pun intended)

:hide:

[pleah]

58. I was afraid to say it.

[gollygee]

25. I liked that they all coordinated

I liked the littlest girl's dress the best though.

[theoldman]

27. I am just a stupid old man but I thought her dress was eye

catching. It matched her daughters dresses. P.S. She probably paid for it herself.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

30. Eye-catching it was!

Like an optical illusion. It confused me.

[KayLaw]

29. It's just a dress.

I don't like it but it's not as bad as some made it sound. I was expecting Morticia Adams.

[tinymontgomery]

35. She's wearing red which means

"she's a communist" she is now able to come out of the closet. Marx and Lenin theology will replace the constitution. :sarcasm:

[Democat]

36. Today, we are all communists!

Even the right wingers!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

65. Nope..red and black..the colors of anarchy!

:rofl:

[TexasObserver]

37. Yes! It was a message of unity, appealing to the "red" side.

Also, red & black, no tradin' back!!

[VWolf]

42. No, it was a compromise

One daughter wanted to wear red & the other wanted to wear black.
Michelle just didn't want to show favoritism :)

[lpbk2713]

40. Maybe Toot liked that dress?

It's a possibility.

[mtnester]

43. I will

it ended up being a bad choice. I am sure she has already heard from her friends and is certainly aware it was not the best choice for far away shots. Maybe it looked better in the mirror, but on far camera shots, nope, it did not work for that.

I would want someone to tell me if something I was wearing looked weird or bad. It is like having a booger hanging from your nose...someone needs to speak up and TELL you for God's sake! Don't let me walk out to talk to people that way. I wonder if she had anyone putting their two cents in ahead of time on this choise.

I have clothing too that looked good when I tried it on and bought it, but looked completely different later. Maybe this is the case here.

[aikoaiko]

45. When my UGA grad wife saw the outfits, she yelled, " Go Dawgs!!!"

I think its a stimulus response thing.

[MrCoffee]

46. MrsCoffee (who adores Michelle Obama) was not a fan of the dress

I didn't understand the dress. What's with the shiny fabric part?

[gatorboy]

47. Too soon!!!

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

49. reminded me of

the White Stripes

[atommom]

51. Seriously, who cares? We have better things to do than nitpick women's clothing.

[El Pinko]

52. Michelle's worst dress...

...is better than Pickles' best one.

[Dukkha]

53. I like the "Comrade Red" scheme

fools! you fell for our secret socialist agenda! hahahaha! now give us all your wealth!

[Annces]

55. She matches both of her daughters

Maybe that was part of her choice. And some people love ostentation.

[Annces]

56. She matches both of her daughters

Maybe that was part of her choice. And some people love ostentation.

[MissDeeds]

57. Good question

I didn't dare comment last night for fear of being flamed. First ladies typically go through a period of fashion makeovers until they find a style that best suits them. I'm really looking forward to seeing Michelle's fashions as first lady.

BTW - I really don't like black satin clothes on children...too much like mourning attire. :hide:

[luvs2sing]

59. Michelle would look like a million bucks in a Hefty bag,

and she looked great last night, and it was wonderful the way she was color-coordinated with her daughters. That said...it's not the dress I would have chosen. Then again, I've never been known as anything even closely approximating "fashion forward"..."L.L. Bean Poster Child" was my fashionable mother's nickname for me.

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[librechik]

79. True dat

probably looked great on the hanger, or in the catalog.

[ContinentalOp]

60. It totally made her look pregnant. Bad choice. Unless....

Maybe she is pregnant? :shrug:

[RamboLiberal]

61. Who cares - I thought she looked beautiful

I hate the feminine fashion police - especially at DU.

[rcrush]

62. I dont understand what the hell yall are talking about

What about her dress? I dont get it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

63. I'll be honest and say that for a woman who has incredible taste, this outfit IMHO

was ugly and unflattering.

[Iggo]

64. Hmmm...the fire dress.

Interesting choice...

[Maven]

66. You know what? As I see it again in photos it's actually growing on me.

[Iggo]

73. Yeah, big picture (literally).

When I look at the long shot, she matches her husband and both her kids. Kinda cool looking.

Out of that context, though, it's still a weird looking pattern. But, yeah...it's growing on me.

[Ezlivin]

68. And I had picked out this nice marijuana leaf blouse for her to wear!

[Captain Hilts]

69. Good one!

[ensho]

70. you know what they wore was a well considered project

nt

[LiberalHeart]

71. I'm glad someone was brave enough to bring it up. I thought she was wearing an apron.

[hunter]

72. Maybe she doesn't want to be a First Lady Fashion Icon...

But wow, that's a picture of a good looking first family and a great reflection of what we are as a nation.

It's like waking up from a bad dream.

[earth mom]

74. Okay, I'll say it. I hated Michelles dress. And Jill Biden wore yellow which was odd too.

But at least neither woman whooped it up and spent big bucks at "needless markup".

[Horse with no Name]

75. I loved it

Michelle will bring a Jackie-O--esque style to the White House that it hasn't seen in years.

[Mushroom]

76. Stay Classy, DUers

:crazy:

C'ya.

[Gwendolyn]

77. It probably would've looked better without the jacket.

But they were all nicely coordinated.

Here's the offending dress on the runway. It looks okay.

[watercolors]

78. Some people need to get a life!

After such a wonderful night, this crap??

[trotsky]

80. Michelle Obama is one of THOSE people.

You know the kind. She could be wearing a burlap sack and still look stunning.