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.
Outstanding!
“Michelle Obama is not the president, she is the spouse.”
She is the spouse, who is also actively pushing her husband’s agenda; ie. health care. Fair game, I’d say.
Additionally, MSM would have one believe she’s the world’s best-dressed fashionista doing so on a J Crew/Gap shoestring budget. Wrong and wrong. Most of that haute couture crap she wears is restyled and custom fit for her ample pear-shaped body.
$4,000/day Hawaiian getaways, Paris and London shopping sprees, AF1 date night and flyover, $500 sneakers to feed the homeless ... the list goes on. Her staff staff of 22 that costs the taxpayer $1.5 mil per year alone. That does not include her private stylist and make up artist.
We’ve got our very own Marie Antoinette. Let them eat cake!
Just my $.02.
Thanks, I changed the title to Let Them Wear Rhinestones.
Just wondering, what size shoes does she wear?
We had a friend whose son was in size 16 shoes when he was 15 years old. He was over 6 ft tall. There were not many places he could buy shoes with feet that size and they were always expensive, even athletic shoes.
She does pick ugly shoes though.
Remember the campaign, when she wore clothes from WalMart and Target?”
It was J. Crew clothing
thanks for the heads up GOP_Lady.. and great job vrwc54~
I posted at the YouTube site.. (was that your kitty meowing ?)
Looks like she got a nose job.
Absolutely excellent and right on the mark!!! Thanks.
Really does look like she got her nose clipped. Someone should do a side by side picture of her.....then & now.
Thanks. No not my cat. I just made a new ending using the MGM lion roaring with the joker cat to use in future videos.
Who is that “we” you mentioned and what gives you the right to dictate what others write?
Look, I don’t like Michelle Obama, but this is counter productive. How do you ever expect to be taken seriously when you are so concerned with trivialities like the size of Michelle’s shoes or the cost of the trip to Hawaii. I just thinks it demeans us.
Great let's criticize her for policy items, not for her shoe size or her "pear shaped frame".
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Well, at least he's not posting racist replies that are offensive enough to get yanked. What is your agenda, make FR look bad?
***I’m guessing around 13EEE. War canoes.***
Actually, Dain, EEE is a very narrow width shoe for a woman. I’d give her size as 13DDD which is triple width.
IMO, she deserves the criticism ... living high on the hog in designer duds and jewels while millions are out of work. Talk about bad taste.
ps. I got the “pear shaped” from the media, should have put it in quotes. :D
A sampling ...
For this dinner out, Michelle is wearing a lovely cocktail dress in a wide variety of neutral tones. This v-neck dress, with a twist in the fabric just below the bust-line, is flattering to the first lady’s pear shape.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1428108/what_pearshaped_women_can_learn_from.html
What Pear-Shaped Women Can Learn from Michelle Obama: How the First Lady Navigates Her Body Shape
Is that a faux snakeskin skirt or is that her real skin? Either way, an ugly reptilian bitch.
I remember well the garbage the Nancy Reagan ahd to endure over her clothes and the china. Heh, Nancy looked cute, very classy, and she wore like a size 2....quite the contrast to Big MO!
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