Posted on 12/28/2009 7:16:00 PM PST by kristinn
Photo: Huffington Post.
Photo: New York Magazine.
Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn't Michelle Obama live like a queen?
The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela.
The shoe style is called "Leather open toe flat pumps." It features a "thin nude leather strap across the top of the toe."
A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would have to work 88 hours (without taxes taken out) to make enough to pay for Michelle Obama's shoes. If she can get them on sale, they would only set her back $445 for 62 hours work.
The Obamas are staying at an $8.9 million estate for an estimated $4000 per night. To cover the Obama's ten night stay, the minimum wage worker would have to work two-and-a-half years (before taxes) to come up with the $40,000 Obama is reportedly laying out.
Obama has lectured Americans about how they can not expect to live their lives as indulgently as they have in the past. He has lectured businesses about their travel and pay. Yet Obama and his wife live like kings and queens.
The news media has yet to call him out on his extravagance when there is 10% unemployment with no sign of the employment picture improving this coming year.
H/T maggief
There must be “diamonds on the soles of her shoes.”
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New??? Does not look like the $5,950/$875 VBH clutch.
Hey, maggief, who cares about the clutch when she has that rock on her finger. That has to be a carat.
Kristinn, I posted this same thought on yesterday’s “Fashionista” thread...but, it needs repeated.
Those shoes, and their designer and manufacturer are RAAAACIST.
The “nude” strap is obviously intended for a more melin challenged wearer. How RAAAACIST.
I personnally see a Class Action suit and damages in the offing.
Alan Wong’s $$$$
http://www.alanwongs.com/index.php
FLASHBACK:
http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2009/6/23/Barack_Obama_White_House_Hawaii_luau_food
Pass the poi, Mr. President. Obama hosting first-ever White House luau
by: Derek Paiva
posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009
Save those Chicago-style hot dogs for the next South Lawn picnic. The leader of the free world wants his Hawaii grinds.
In a nod to his first home state, President Barack Obama will host the first-ever Hawaii-style luau on the White House lawn, complete with real Island cuisine, hula and music. The Thursday luau is pretty much all the Hawaii-born-and-raised president’s idea—his revamping, of sorts, of the annual White House Congressional picnic for members of Congress and their families.
Award-winning Hawaii-based chef Alan Wong is crafting the luau’s menu of contemporary Hawaiian cuisine, making use of as much Island-grown produce as he can get to D.C. The chef’s Honolulu eatery, Alan Wong’s Restaurant, has been a favorite dinner choice of the Obama’s on recent visits to Oahu.
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The clutch could have cost more. :)
Wow...a close up (finally) of her wedding set. She never seems to wear it. I hope some enerprising FReepes crops and enlarges this (for historical and discussion purposes of course).
Michelle Obama sure has some ugly damn legs,Yikes!
Very ugly. I wouldn’t pay $6.35 for them.
And it probably did. LOL.
If she is going to spend money on clothing and accessories, she could at least spend it wisely.
If she’s going to pay that much for those ugly shoes, why didn’t she get the right size? Her ugly toes are hanging over the end of them! Guess they don’t come in a 14EEE.
She does make some odd footwear choices.
“635 BUCKS FOR THOSE??”
She could make a nice down payment on braces to fix that really bad underbite for that.
U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he walks with first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Sasha (L) and Malia on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before their departure December 24, 2009. Obama is going to spend Christmas and New Year holidays in Hawaii with his family.
??? Robert Clergerie Fissat over-the-knee stretch suede boots, $874.95
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She probably could have gotten a $10 pair at pay less
I’ve seen better looking shoes at Wal-Mart.
Why wear shoes? I don’t get it.
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