Posted on 12/29/2009 1:16:36 PM PST by kristinn
First Lady Michelle Obama's obsession with very expensive designer shoes is starting to bring up the specter of Imelda Marcos, the shoe-hording former First Lady of the Philippines.
Marcos, who was the wife of Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos, became a global laughingstock when news spread of the more than one thousand pairs of shoes in her closets when the Marcos regime was overthrown by the People Power revolution led by Corazon Aquino in 1986.
The mainstream media has pretty much ignored Michell Obama's designer shoe collection, save for when she visited a soup kitchen wearing garish $540 silver colored sneakers.
A few bloggers have paid attention in recent months to Obama's flaunting of her growing collection designer shoes. Maggief at Free Republic and Jersey Nut have been among the few to keep up with Obama's royal indulgences.
Both posters highlighted Obama's recent extravagant purchase of custom-made French designer thigh-high boots by Robert Clergerie that retail for $850 off the shelf. The story was only reported by foreign news outlets ANI and AFP right before Thanksgiving. According to the articles, Obama also ordered a pair of Clergerie calf-length buckskin boots that retail for about $750.
Obama was photographed wearing the $850 boots as she and her family departed the White House for their $4000 per night Hawaii vacation on Christmas Eve.
While in Hawaii, Obama was photographed wearing $635 designer shoes from Maison Martin Margiela.
Maison Martin Margiela appears to be one of Obama's favorite shoe designers as she was photographed earlier this year wearing a pair of their $725 sandals.
That's about $3500 for five pairs of footwear, or an average of $700 per pair. And those are the ones that are easily found doing quick research. Who knows what's piling up in the White House residence closets.
When Barack and Michelle Obama campaigned for the White House last year, they lectured the American people on how they need to sacrifice their standard of living for the common good.
Byron York reported on Michelle Obama's remarks in Zanesville, Ohio in February 2008 urging people to forego making money in 'corporate America', even though she warned them they would suffer financially:
"Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."
After becoming first lady and enjoying as much of a royal lifestyle as America allows, the wealth-obsessed Michelle Obama warned a schoolgirl who said she wanted be first lady when she grew up that "it doesn't pay much."
With the nation at war and still mired in the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression, the Obamas are living high on the hog with a sanctimonious 'do as I say, not as I do attitude' that is starting to wear thin.
First Lady Nancy Reagan was rippied by the media in the last deep recession for wearing American designers and for obtaining new china for the White House.
There has not been a similar outcry from the press over Michelle Obama's self-indulgent extravagance. We all know why, of course. Michelle Obama is a Democrat.
That was terrific! LOL, oh yeah, and how did you get that cat to sit still for that?
She is disgusting and we have every right to say so. She is constantly put on every magazine as the women we all should be. So because we have to look at her ugly face on every magazine every month of the year we have the right to criticize her. She is mess and she is a disgrace to our country. She dresses in a manner that shows she does not care out her position. She pisses on our country!
Shoebacca.
Oops - my mistake, just figured it was the same as men’s.
Absolutely she got a nose job.
LOL! Great video, keep ‘em coming.
Actually, Dain, *I* was mistaken. Triple A is the narrowest size for women. And I should know better because that’s what I’ve always worn. Until they stopped making them. So, if you see a woman walking along the street and her shoes fall off, that’s me.
As for Mrs. Zero, DDD sounds about right.
Re the video — YEAH! That’s tellin’ ‘em MO!!!
What a jacka** that woman is! All those clothes and jewels and shoes — so much of it foreign designed and made — how about a little somethin’ from the good ‘ol USA??????????????????????
And despite all the expense, she looks worse than any first lady in my memory — and I go back to the Mamie Eisenhower era!
Don’t hear much about this from those who were alarmed over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe.
When you’re the Obama’s you’ve got to be stylin’ n profilin’.
“...whereas better-looking Republican women such as Laura Bush, Michelle Bachman, and Sarah Palin never get such accolades. ...”
Except here on FR. :-)
On one interview she commented on her dress being from Target and often shopping at WalMart. She wanted people to think she was just a common person.
Thanks for the ping. Great video. Really striking comparison between Michelle “then” during the campaign...and the Queen now.
The shoes, media or both?
bbq’d reporters?
And the stuff she wears is UGLY! <<<<<
I noticed in a few recent magazines that weird belts are creeping into celebrity fashion pix, which is so funny. Only silly Hollywood-types would be enticed into copying Michelle’s belted look, it’s so bizarre. Some of them, to their credit, actually wear the belts at their waists, which Michelle apparently doesn’t believe in.
Just....damn. What a first lady.
I was watching Extreme Makeover on Hulu and the blond designer had a boob belt. Stupid looking even on her. :-P
Michelle didn’t invent the boob belt. One of my coworkers was wearing one and I suggested she was copying the First Lady. She promptly showed me a picture on her Facebook page wearing one in 2005.
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