Posted on 05/02/2025 12:50:03 PM PDT by simpson96
“I love all the gold, Gold Eagles, Gold draperies, “
Once, you posted that you disdained all earthly treasures.
She doesn’t need to show feminine strength. I thought at a “ball” people danced.
There were no picture of any dancing.
“might give license for her to not wear a ball gown.”
I never said “gown”, just “dress”. Also, I wasn’t referring to that one specific event. Since she became FLOTUS 47, she has dressed much less femininely overall. More pants; fewer dresses and skirts. Even her official portrait, although gorgeous with a badass aura (which I love), is masculine.
Anyhow, it doesn’t matter. It is what it is. People say that she’s always trying to make a statement with the outfit she wears. If that’s true, she knows exactly what she’s doing, and good for her.
[ Okay, I’m kinda old, old fashioned, but Melania looks like a stupid TRANNY. ]
You’re kind of cute when you’re BELLIGERANT!
But answer me this: If manners, propriety, and civility all are fleeting and utterly nonimportant, especially IF you like a person, FROM AFAR, then just WHY have such thing been EXTREMELY important throughout all of recorded history?
Since the by now hoary old "DO YOUR OWN THING", was/is still just OH SO "WONDERFUL", then WHY are you not aghast at recent stories about a woman passenger on a plane who stripped naked and defecated on a seat"? Or...were you upset about that?
And no, I am NOT saying that that plane story is on the same level, but it IS on the same disregard for what is expected. Ummmmmmmmm...okay, maybe not; but people wearing pajamas or worse, on a plane, is a better fit. Because once upon a time, people wore nice clothes to fly in.
The First Lady wearing a sleek black pantsuit to a Ball that wasn't even a Ball is not high on the list. It even seems almost silly to quibble about it, considering all of the things we have seen in seven plus decades.
Please tell me you are at least an octogenarian?
I stated MY opinion, just as others did. But kept on getting called on it, so perhaps I was a bit "BELLIGERANT".
Perhaps there's no real reason behind it, but perhaps she thinks that she's "sending a message": I'M THE BOSS, THE BADASS...whatever, which doesn't work either, IMHO.
Isn't THAT thinking the THIRD WAVE FEMINIST...WE DON'T NEED ANY MEN, THEY ALL STINK thing that everyone here seems to hate when a LEFTY pulls it?
It’s all good. You got SPUNK! LOL!
Just WHY is it just oh sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo very wrong of me to NOT join in with the droolers, who praise every single thing, good, bad, or indifferent?
Any YOU have totally ignored every single extremely good post I have presented.
So, for a change, please answer the following: Are things ( behavior, lack of manners, the way people dress and look ) better now, OR were they better in the recent past?
And do NOT bring up new gadgets, technology, etc.! That, yes, is part of it ( bad behavior, etc.! ), but right now, please focus on general behavior and dress.
We old timers here need to stick together! :-)
I didn’t see feminine strength in that at all. I saw attitude. She has been dressing like a guy and wearing man like attire and trench coats on the very few occasions she is doing a first lady stint. The media talks about how they don’t seem to live together now. I guess she is denying the media scum anything to talk about regarding her attire. Unfortunately it is sad for those who loved her style.
I guess I don’t blame her at all for her obvious anger at the way she was treated during the first term and in the last four years but it sure as hell isn’t the people who voted for Donald who treated them poorly.
I see her demeanor this go round as very odd. Oh well, she won’t be the first odd first lady.
Of course "things" were better but only in the same way that everything was better in the past according to each older generation, going all the way back to Socrates.
To accuse our First Lady, Melania Trump, of causing our civilization to crumble by any degree is stuff and nonsense.
I will add, as I replied to MayflowerMadam, above.
Because the fashion mavens snubbed her in President Trump's first term, she is apparently getting back at them by not giving them any chance for them to snub her again.Do you remember how the fashionistas and journalists would not design outfits for her and excoriated her for anything she wore?
NP - You are so right. Appropriate dress is not, or should not be, an indicator of age. It’s a reflection, generally, of how a person was raised. (I have years to go to reach octogenarian.) And it’s true that things WERE better “behavior, lack of manners, the way people dress and look” in the past.
Like seeing women in church wearing pants ... I don’t get THAT. Even when I go to church alone on a Saturday to practice piano/organ, I wear a skirt.
I understand decorum won’t improve; we began the slippery slope toward crude a long time ago. Guess we just have to live with it.
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