Someone I know threatens to show this pic to errant faculty.
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.
whiner, don’t like the thread?..... there are plenty of others. So get lost.
ditto
She had to wear a designer dress to visit the troops in Hawaii. How tacky can she get? She wore a white sundress by Narciso Rodriguez.
She has 6 toes?
Umm. Maybe not too good to be in the middle of this hissing fit though. Am treading lightly...
I do think some of the pictures of her shoes posted here make a body wonder where the rest of the shoe is though.
Someone I know threatens to show this pic to errant faculty.
Perhaps you should look in the mirror before you start complaining about whiniers.
Sorry, I just think family is off limits and your rudeness does not change my mind. I suppose you thought is was fair game for the other side to make fun of Trig. If not, then how in the world can you condone this. Michelle Obama is not the president, she is the spouse. What shoes she wears is irrelevant. How much she pays for shoes is irrelevant. How preoccupied people here get with trivialities is just stupid.
I just finished this video. I guess I'm MO's You Tube fashion critic.
Congrats.
Fantastic! Will email this coast to coast. Keeping my comments about MO to myself because it’s still Christmas but I think you know what they are.
Thank You,
Granny Jan
Happy New Year, my dear! :-)
ROTFLOL Good one.
There was a mention of it. When she was at the Grand Canyon in those awful shorts. She had gotten out of the car and it looked in the pictures like she had 6 toes. Don’t know if it is true or not.
Fabulous!
I’m going to be ill.
And neither did Nancy Reagan's china which remains at the White House today as a gift to the American people.
Wow! The video says it all. And I have to congratulate vrwc54 for her clever collection of lovely pictures of MO. I’ve never seen most of those because there are so many really ugly ones floating around. Somehow the video has more impact when the pictures chosen are decent.
That has to be one of the stupidest posts I have ever seen. Comparing making fun of an innocent child like Trig, with making fun of a classless, stark raving mad, hideous, big, fat wookie. It’s not off limits, so ignore the threads! She tells us she is going to fundamentally change our country, we can never go back to how it was and we need to give up a piece of our pie so others can have more. FUMO and the pig you rode in on. They are trash, all of them.
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