Mrs. Bush has impeccable taste! I love the colors, the feeling you get when you look at the plates, and smiled when I saw the pearlized handles on the knives. My Mom bought that look for our very expensive cocktail knives--all we could afford at the time, when I was growing up.
Mom had higher ups from my Dad's work over to the house for dinner parties a lot. (She would make all her clothing from VOGUE patterns, and was VERY creative and had great taste in decorating---all by herself; and all the higher ups wives did was ask her how she could do all this on a "salesman's" salary. Too much - ...okay back to the WH patterns... I don't like food with butter and dragon flies, but other than that...love the leaves and the colors on the other plates! --just a personal thing.
I don't have the time, but you should see the visual in my mind for the plates that Michelle will be picking out...if they are anything like the Black Widow Spider pattern on her last ON-SOM..blah, Lord help us! ha ha ha