Posted on 07/09/2009 7:49:28 AM PDT by NMEwithin
Is First Lady Michelle Obama sporting a taste for ultra-expensive fashion pieces, or is she cementing her status as a savvy shopper? Back in April she wore a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers at a Washington food bank. Earlier this week (while strolling the wooded landscape outside of Moscow), she carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950. The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875. The First Lady, who has impressed with her chic, affordable style sense, embracing Everywoman brands like Gap and J.Crew, flashed the shiny handheld while walking with her husband, President Barack Obama, during their Monday meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana. Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It’s definitely ours."
What sort of fool would pay $875 for patent leather?
[In Moscow, MrsO] carried a sexy black clutch, which Italian luxury house VBH boasts is their shiny black alligator manila bag – with a retail sticker price of $5,950.
The White House flatly denies that Obama bought such a high-priced accessory, and says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875.
[The key phrase being “denies she bought”...]
An $875 knockoff? Oh… well.... that’s all right, then.
We report; you deride.
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Earth to the O's....
Maybe they gave her one. That’s not unheard of. If that’s teh case, why not just say so?
It’s the allergy they have to the truth...
That’s a nicely Nixonian non-denial denial...
ping
Ethics rules and/or tax laws, I suspect....
"It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...
Ethics rules and/or tax laws, I suspect....
In other words, the allergy to the truth serves a greater purpose? Hahahahahaha...you are probably right...it’s not a simple allergy...it’s a reaction.
“says that she was carrying a patent clutch that retails for $875”
She can’t carry one for less than $100 like the “little people,” can she? Friggin’ diva.
Fish Eyed Fool!
I read somewhere that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad eschews wearing a tie to show his disdain of western values.
Maybe Zero is of like mind.
You’re probably right. He can’t get straight where he met his wife nor what hospital he was born in so I guess where a purse came from is definitely beyond them.
Oh...if that's all.
If you added up all of the clothes in my closet, suits, ties, shoes, the works.... You'd be hard pressed to find $875 worth.
Mrs WBill dropped 60 bucks on a purse recently and I winced. But, she really liked it, did her shopping and homework, and she's far from a clothes horse, so I went along with it.
I get my bags from WalMart and use them for years. There are levels of frugal but she’s never heard the word.
Maybe it’s a knockoff like her husband’s “birth certificate.”
It’s a knock-off?
I like the way you think!
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