Posted on 12/18/2017 4:40:46 AM PST by simpson96
If there has been a single defining characteristic of Melania Trump’s public profile over the past year, it has been her relationship with sleeves. They have served as a dramatic flourish. They have been rolled up in empathy. They have been self-consciously ignored. They have reflected her personal fashion sense, the artifice inherent in the ill-defined role of first lady and the privilege of life in the White House.
Her sleeves are always in service to the picture. And there is always a picture.
The mere fact that sleeves are even considered part of her fashion profile has a lot to do with her predecessor, who more often than not shunned them. Michelle Obama made sleeveless dresses a style signature, even posing for her first official White House portrait wearing a sleeveless black Michael Kors dress. Obama’s bare arms were in keeping with contemporary fashion, but their particularly lean musculature also served as a silent disquisition on the subject of physical fitness, one of her early East Wing initiatives. In contrast, the new first lady chose a long-sleeve black Dolce & Gabbana jacket for her first portrait. Trump’s fondness for sleeves is not a pragmatic matter of covering her arms. Indeed, just because a garment has sleeves is no guarantee that those sleeves will actually be used. When she wears an overcoat or sweater, often the sleeves hang, inert, like a pair of limp, vestigial wings draped across her shoulders.
Trump’s sleeves are the mark of a fashion aesthete who is willing to cast aside practicality in favor of line, silhouette and proportion. Her sleeves tell a story of an exceptional life, one that is now lived inside the White House security bubble. Just as Obama knew she’d never have to wait for the car in the cold,
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
*ping*
Ping to First Lady Melania's List.
She has made America Feminine Again.
Melania is so lovely....how lucky we are!!
Our First Lady is a True Blessing!
Because nothing short of Kevlar could contain “her” 24” pythons.
Melania is a stunning First Lady. I also found Laura Bush much more attractive than the alcohol syndrome baby, Jackie Kennedy, but that is just me.
Sun’s out..
Guns Out!
“She” coulda used a Razor.
Amazing how the commenters at the WaPo can find creative ways to hate on this beautiful, elegant woman. They miss their beloved Wookie, I guess..
And 2008-2016 were the “Years of massive ugly arms” ??
The color is AMAZING and the dress is conservative/elegant. There was a time that you had to search to find the former FLOTUS in a dress/outfit that wasn’t hideous. Now... you can’t find a picture of an outfit/dress on Melania that isn’t gorgeous.
The usual snarky BS from The Compost. However, the pictures are all nice!
These Socialists, all up and down the line, are going to continue frothing at the mouth as We The People ARE taking back OUR Nation...and the Socialist Democrat Party WILL be out of power for a very long time to come.
MAGA! And we CAN do it without their help and in SPITE of them, the GOPe and the RINOs! :)
In the now-ancient Doc Savage stories, the character “Ham” was said to be always exceptionally well dressed, and further to be able to wear his clothes so well that tailors would follow him down the street just to see how clothing was supposed to be worn. Melania strikes me as being similarly capable, as it is rare for her to not make an outfit look good. All suppositions and rumors aside, Michelle was singularly graceless, and rarely looked good no matter how tasteful her clothes were (and there were a few outfits of hers that weren’t bad).
Damn! That’s one good looking woman!
“In her public appearances, Trump’s chosen designer may be American-born, immigrant or foreigner. The label could be that of a legacy brand or a fairly established one. Her choices are not likely to be mass-market. America First is not part of her fashion philosophy.”
Fat, jealous COWS at the Compost! *SPIT*
Thanks for the ping and the photos of our beatiful First Lady.
She is not only beautiful; she carries herself with exceptional femininity, poise and grace.
Something that has been entirely absent from the White House during the Clinton and Obama years.
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