[LibFreeOrDie]

The yellow-green shiny outfit that Michelle wore to the inauguration was designed by Isabel Toledo. Michelle wears (ugly) outfits from a variety of designers; very few have been from Maria Pinto.

[susannah59]

The Maria Pinto designs were some of MO's better choices. Her real problem isn't the designers, it's the way she mixes things up (though the inauguration outfit and ball gown both were fairly ugly). She seems to take things that are pretty decent-looking separately and combine them in such a way that she looks as if she dresses in the dark, grabbing things at random. (Out of her middle school closet, someone said, or out of someone else's Goodwill box).

She's said to have her "own style." I'd call it "disastrous" myself.

Has anyone besides me noticed, too, that she seems to look not at all graceful and ladylike? I've seen umpteen pictures now of her standing (in a dress) with her legs apart and at an odd angle, or striding along like she's got to snatch that cookie out of some poor obese kid's hand.

[Citizen Soldier]

wearing gold at your husband’s inauguration sends a subtle message you regard it as a royal coronation, very ungracious