Comments on: Michelle Obama in Italy: fashion for ex-First Ladies

By: DNW

DNW — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:05:58 +0000

Neo,

I’ve been thinking about the smart-assed comments I made, and even though my remarks about Michelle Obama herself were not negative in ordinary secular terms, the entire contribution was worthless and unnecessary.

Feel free, encouraged even, to wipe them out.

Regards,

DNW

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 25 May 2017 22:04:20 +0000

It’s not her job to look good to me or dress the way I’d like her to. She, like every other woman in the world, has no interest in my opinion about her appearance. It is her job, though, to dress properly for entering a church. I don’t think she’s trying to destroy Western culture by dressing that way; she just lives in thoughtless times.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Thu, 25 May 2017 21:37:32 +0000

expat: “She is not too smart and certainly not a deep thinker.”

True dat! She has the desire to be somebody, but has little idea of how to actually do it. More reason to have a bit of pity for her.

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 25 May 2017 20:56:56 +0000

Apparently she values her mother’s down-to-earth approach to raising kids, but that is not what she tried to bring to young black women. Instead she went into the whole garden, nutrtion, school lunch thing but forgot to tell girls that they should learn to cook for their kids. She did add home-cooking to her efforts -- from 2014, "Michelle Obama moves into the kitchen to fight obesity"

By: MissJean

MissJean — Thu, 25 May 2017 19:56:17 +0000

That one-shoulder-on-the-other-off blouse and ripped jeans are very popular among middle-aged women in the UK. I noticed the style in Canadian mags and, sadly, among photos of survivors of the Manchester massacre.

By: DNW

DNW — Thu, 25 May 2017 19:28:09 +0000

Just so the point is clear, my comment about Michelle Obama, was meant to be descriptive and mildly complimentary, not negative.

If it lacked some tone of respect or decorum, seemed overly familiar, that is because it doesn’t seem to me that she is standing on any kind of formality herself. Just operating as another chick crossing the square in warm-weather attire. And that’s fine with me.

For some reason, the image of her reminds me of Sally Fields, in a kinda cute, kinda sexy, … but I’ll-take-a-pass-myself, kinda way.

Maybe Sally Fields used to go around in shoulder baring, bosom emphasizing tank tops, or something. And that is very much Ok with me too, in general.

Now, the friend, she is a different matter.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 25 May 2017 18:46:55 +0000

Well, Dave, the Reagan era in the GOP is definitely over.

By: Nobody Atall

Nobody Atall — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:51:40 +0000

Michelle is not attractive, though she could be moreso with proper fashion sense. Since before her husband ran for pres, she has had the financial and social resources to dress better. Instead she chooses teenage baloney couture like these inappropriate blouses and pedal pushers. Remember the mini-sweaters and the giant belts she used to wear? Made her look like a cow busting out of the garments. Not everyone can wear everything. Michelle should have better advisers, but that does not seem to be a common trait in her little world.

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:49:01 +0000

Well, as long as her wife likes the way she looks what do the rest of us care?

By: Mike K

Mike K — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:37:23 +0000

Michelle Obama can wear what she wants when traveling in Europe or Tahiti or wherever her rich friends invite her. The problem was that they were visiting the cathedral in Sienna and that suggests a bit of modesty would be in order. Now, I have seen American tourists in shorts and gaudy outfits while on vacation but they were not exactly models of decorum.

I have been in that cathedral and can’t recall anyone dressed as badly as she was on the visit.