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From gowns to pantsuits, Michelle Obama explains her iconic fashion picks in a new book, ‘The Look’
The Associated Press ^ | November 13, 2025 | BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE (D-AP)

Posted on 11/13/2025 7:18:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — On any day during her eight years as first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama said she could go from giving a speech to meeting with a counterpart from another country to digging in her vegetable garden with groups of schoolchildren.

And her clothes had to be ready for that. There was too much else to do, including raising daughters Sasha and Malia, and she said she did not have time to obsess over what she was wearing.

“I was concerned about, ‘Can I hug somebody in it? Will it get dirty?’” she said Wednesday night during a moderated conversation about her style choices dating to growing up on the South Side of Chicago to when she found herself in the national spotlight as the first Black woman to be first lady. “I was the kind of first lady that there was no telling what I would do.”

Obama would become one of the most-watched women in the world, for what she said and did, but also for what she wore. She chronicled her fashion, hair and makeup journey in her newest book, “The Look,” written with her longtime stylist Meredith Koop and published earlier this month.

She wanted her clothes to be welcoming as well as versatile.

“The thing about clothes that I find is that they can welcome people in or they can keep people away, and if you’re so put together and so precious and things are so crisp and the pin is so big, you know, it can just tell people, ‘Don’t touch me,’” she said.

“I’m not going to push somebody away when they need something from me, and I’m not going to let the clothes get in the way of that,” Obama said.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigmike; lunchlady; mooch; zzzzzzzzzzzzz
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1 posted on 11/13/2025 7:18:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What??? No whine in that excerpt. Must be fake AI content. She never opens her yap without whining.


2 posted on 11/13/2025 7:20:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can’t wait to read this latest effort from the endlessly-fascinating Michelle Obama.


3 posted on 11/13/2025 7:25:32 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ll be sure NOT to buy the book since I’m not interested in the musings of a tranny.


4 posted on 11/13/2025 7:27:50 PM PST by gildafarrell ("To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have never seen such a weird combination of extreme fashion obsession and extremely bad fashion sense


5 posted on 11/13/2025 7:29:26 PM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Babylon Bee got me again!

Oh, wait...


6 posted on 11/13/2025 7:32:26 PM PST by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

LOL


7 posted on 11/13/2025 7:32:41 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can’t remember who said it a year ago, however whomever is behind the Dem curtain is pushing Moochelle as the next Dem Potus candidate.


8 posted on 11/13/2025 7:32:49 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can you even imagine that gorilla climbing into bed with you?


9 posted on 11/13/2025 7:38:26 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE (D-AP)

Color me surprised by the sycophancy.

10 posted on 11/13/2025 7:39:46 PM PST by niteowl77
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> Babylon Bee got me again! Oh, wait...

Yeah that was my first reaction too. surely this is satire....

11 posted on 11/13/2025 7:40:40 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3pgImmwqQ&pp=ygUgQXJjaGllIEJ1bmtlciBoYW5ncyBzZWxmLCB0b25ndWU%3D


12 posted on 11/13/2025 7:42:20 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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> Can you even imagine that gorilla climbing into bed with you?

Darn you, tumblindice, that was a perfectly good bite of dinner that just shot across the table.

No matter, I lost my appetite.....

13 posted on 11/13/2025 7:43:15 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored

“Think she smells like a male goat? Oh my!”
George Takei


14 posted on 11/13/2025 7:49:29 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's a $50 coffee table book that is published by Penguin Random House, which is now owned by Bertelsmann.

And Bertelsmann should sound familiar.

From 2008...

German Publishing's Man in the White House

15 posted on 11/13/2025 7:51:43 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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16 posted on 11/13/2025 7:51:57 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Angry black lady dressed like an angry black cleaning lady.


17 posted on 11/13/2025 7:53:17 PM PST by anton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re kidding, right? Except for the, er... practical... Barbara Bush, First Ladies are expected to be, and usually are, of an elegant fashion. Michelle Obama either looked like she had just come in from mowing the lawn, or like she had ordered her clothing from Montgomery Ward, with the advice of her worst enemy.


18 posted on 11/13/2025 7:55:39 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Shameless plug: I did a series that was funny at the time some 14 years ago, she was a laughing stock at the time and still is. Made dozens of photoshops along with others who chimed in, three threads.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2569841/posts

19 posted on 11/13/2025 8:01:35 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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"The Look."

She must be talking about her angry black woman look.

20 posted on 11/13/2025 8:05:07 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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