Posted on 08/01/2017 7:15:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Like nearly all the women who preceded her in the White House, First Lady Melania Trump has been on the receiving end of criticism for her appearance. Even before the inauguration, a chorus of top designers publicly refused to dress her. Then observers noticed the First Lady’s preference for foreign designers in spite of her husband’s “America First” rhetoric. And since then, she’s come under criticism for jaw-dropping sartorial decisions, including a $51,000 Dolce & Gabbana jacket that found unexpected fans at Breitbart. (Nothing says “economic nationalism” like a five-figure jacket made by Italians.) While Trump’s style has more often than not displayed an out-of-touch attitude, she’s now following a tradition familiar to most Americans: re-wearing clothes.
On Monday, Melania Trump’s official Instagram account featured a photo of the First Lady posing with White House interns, wearing a white, sleeveless Michael Kors dress that fashion observers have seen before. Trump wore the same dress in May 2016, when Donald Trump won the Indiana primary, becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
This is the first time in recent memory that the public has seen Trump re-wear something, but the development places her in good company. The world’s most famous outfit repeater, Duchess Kate Middleton, is often seen in dresses, jackets, and other pieces from her archives. Former First Lady Michelle Obama re-wore a green Michael Kors dress, deploying it both at the White House and at a conference in New York. Obama even called out husband Barack recently on his ability to get away with wearing the same tuxedo for years.
Perhaps we’ll see more fashion repeats from Trump in more public spaces going forward. Maybe she’ll even wear the Dolce & Gabbana jacket one more time.
Why can’t she wear U.S. made clothes?
Exactly!
This article was conceived in snark, and its eotistical author hoped it would have a long, snarky lifetime.
I’ve often thought that it would be really disappointing to be a woman in public life who had to be ‘on show’ all the time, and ‘couldn’t’ wear things again - at least according to the silly people who assume that my job was to please THEM.
When I buy something that I really love, I want to wear it over and over again. Has nothing to do with economy, but with my love for the art of it.
(I’d love to see Melania wear that dress that she wore to dinner at ‘Le Jules Verne’, again; that was an absolutely splendid design.)
wait...did they change how to spell hugh ?
I thought the US designers said they would have nothing to do with her?
This information is devastating,
It has shaken my confidence in Trump to its foundations.
All of them?
The lady knows what she's doing. She's been dressing herself for 30 years.
She's truly a wonderful lady....inside and out. We're very lucky.
And she loves this country with all her heart!!
She wears US made clothing all the time. Italy is the center of Haute couture and she’s a former fashion model. Most modern first ladies have worn Italian and Parisian fashions as a matter of course. Or is she to be held to a different standard than Michelle Obama, Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan or the Bush women?
All these clothes will one day reside in a Museum....OR....perhaps....she will auction some of them at some point and give the money to a children’s organization.
OH... My.... God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop the presses!
oh wait. who the f%$^ cares?
Melania is a Never Frumpster!
There was a Seinfeld episode about clothes rotation.
We need a special prosecutor to look into this. Sessions needs to recuse himself.
Excellent!
he already has
We will call this one “repeatgate”.
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