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What Recession? White House 'Photo of the Day' Shows Michelle Obama Wearing $2,763 Coat
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 01/20/2010 7:59:31 PM PST by kristinn

With the nation still mired in a deep recession that has millions of Americans experiencing economic ruin, the Obama administration marked Barack Obama's one-year anniversary as president by displaying a photograph of First Lady Michelle Obama wearing a $2,763 designer coat as the 'White House photo of the day' on the front page of WhiteHouse.gov.


First Lady Michelle Obama greets a young visitor touring the White House during a surprise visit in the Blue Room with family dog Bo on the anniversary of the inauguration, Jan. 20, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

Nola Weinstein, Fashion Editor for Glam.com noted that Michelle Obama was wearing a "mat lurex Moschino coat with a matching cap sleeve dress from the brand's Pre-Spring 2010 collection."

Sharon Haver at FocusOnStyle.com gushed over the outfit, calling it "very Camelot-ish".

Haver noted that Moschino sent out a copy of the White House photo with the bragging caption:

Moschino is pleased to announce that First Lady Michelle Obama wore a mat lurex Moschino coat with a matching cap sleeve dress while celebrating the year anniversary of the inauguration at the White House.

Freeper maggief discovered the coat at Net-A-Porter.com via polyvore.com


Moschino | Bouclé tweed coat | NET-A-PORTER.COM
# $2,763 (1.935 EUR) (dress not included)

The Obama's are not shy about lavishly spending exhorbitant amounts money on themselves in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression.

The First Couple took a ten-day Hawaii vacation over Christmas and New Year's where they stayed at a $4000 per day $8.9 million estate. Michelle Obama was photographed wearing $635 per pair shoes while out for dinner in Hawaii.

A recent study of five pairs of footwear worn by Michelle Obama shows an average price of $700 per pair.

It could not be readily determined how much the matching dress for the $2763 Moschino coat is selling for.

A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy that pays the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would have to work nearly 380 hours without taxes withheld to be able to afford Michelle Obama's Moschino coat seen on the front page of the White House Web site as the Obama's photo of the day.


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To: OB1kNOb

Perfect! This must be where Blacky-O gets her fashion sense. From re-runs of Ugly Betty.


281 posted on 01/21/2010 11:40:02 AM PST by Palladin (It's a new day in America. Welcome, Senator Brown.)
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To: kristinn

You do know that fashion lines regularly give away their clothes for free to prominent women, just so that they will be photographed wearing them? It’s free advertising for the fashion house.

Especially those from a pre-launch collection - they give the clothes for free so that there will be a “buzz” created about the items.

It’s completely common in the fashion industry. The women who wear all that glam and glitz on the red carpets don’t PAY for those items unless they are going to keep them. The photos popping is enough to get the couture lines to give them for nothing.

Mrs. Obama is certainly famous enough, and photographed enough, to get made this kind of offer.

Maybe someone should ask the press secretary if this is the case, or if she really IS spending that much on a coat.


282 posted on 01/21/2010 11:40:34 AM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: mylife

Please don’t compare M/Obama’s coat with donation paid by taxpayer’s. Doesnt matter what price tag is on Michelle Obama’s clothing, it doesn’t make a LADY. To be a real lady is something you can’t buy at any price.


283 posted on 01/21/2010 11:58:20 AM PST by Maria Garcia
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To: NCLaw441

See post #145.


284 posted on 01/21/2010 12:30:49 PM PST by itssme
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To: kristinn

Meanwhile the two little girls in the picture probably live in a two room apartment and survive off of Capt’n Crunch.


285 posted on 01/21/2010 12:39:20 PM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: mylife

“Where are all the White,Hispanic,Asian and Indian kids?”

Their parents are too educated to have anything to do with the Marxist swindlers.


286 posted on 01/21/2010 12:39:28 PM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: kristinn

On Wednesday, 27 January, Barack Hussein Obama will deliver his first “State of the Union” speech as president, a self evaluation of his first year’s achievements.
Sprinkled between his infamous “let me be clear” or “make no mistake” introduction to his lies, he will, characteristically, attempt to spin a plethora of failures into something including these phony fallback phrases: back from the brink; signs of recovery; restored our reputation; achieved some successes; more work yet to do; fiscal restraint; greed on Wall Street; affordable health care; relief for working families; job creation.
If you can stomach this guy long enough perhaps your chosen career will be carefully, and thoughfully, selected for smearing on national television.


287 posted on 01/21/2010 12:45:30 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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To: mylife

All of which is paid for by YOU for the delight of an amoral racist Marxist traitor. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm inside?


288 posted on 01/21/2010 12:51:12 PM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: BubbaBasher

LOL - I was right!


289 posted on 01/21/2010 12:59:24 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: kristinn

They simply CAN’T help themselves.
There is NO WAY this could EVER have played out differently
for these two:
this is how they thought of it from the beginning:
It’s OUR TURN, BABY!!!!
This is all perfectly in keeping with more statistics from
the Reign of the Obamas, like the 170 PLUS social events and parties they’ve “thrown” in the past year.
Do the math.
That’s one every TWO days.


290 posted on 01/21/2010 1:31:13 PM PST by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Glad I wasn’t drinking coffee when I glimpsed your suggestions for MichOb’s new wardrobe.
I’d need a new keyboard.


291 posted on 01/21/2010 1:33:08 PM PST by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: maggief

Re the very L E N G T H Y video of various hand picked groups of 99% white people making their way thru the WH...

I could only watch for 5 minutes — in that time only ONE black guy came thru the line and he was slated to appear at some conference later (where Meeshell said she’d see him).

I wonder what the response would’ve been by any regular old (non-handpicked) tourists? Had I been in that line and seen this FLOTUS lurking ahead, I’d have turned around and headed back out the door!

The dog, however, is cute and well trained.


293 posted on 01/21/2010 2:16:15 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: machogirl

She is taller than ANYONE who shows up on that video — what is she, like 7 feet????? And in flat shoes!!!


294 posted on 01/21/2010 2:18:27 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: True Republican Patriot

Re: “Why are there never any white children in these photographs?
Just curious, thats all?”

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You need to watch that video (link posted earlier) — very long............and lots of hand-picked ‘groups’ of white people — seniors, students, etc. -— It must’ve killed old Meeshell to have to greet them nicely; of course, she knew she was on camera....


295 posted on 01/21/2010 2:21:47 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: CaliforniaCon

She looks as tall as Barry. Her 11 year-old is already over 5’7”.


296 posted on 01/21/2010 2:24:55 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: maggief; hoosiermama; kristinn; All
I love it. Subdued soft tweed with black braid trim, Classic Chanel style, which is back in style now. Just the sort of thing Jackie Kennedy would, and did wear.

Strangely, Michelle looks slimmer than any of the general populace, even in a loose fitting coat!!

Once before, I did a Google search and found that the first family pays for their own clothing. I do not know if they are allowed to receive gifts or clothing on loan from current famous designers.


297 posted on 01/21/2010 2:39:21 PM PST by potlatch (- What a co-inky-dink-)
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To: potlatch; maggief; onyx; STARWISE; Liz

What’s the big fuss.....It’s just her house coat....She even has her house slippers on....;~)

Can you imagine paying that much for a dress just to wear around the house?


298 posted on 01/21/2010 2:42:49 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

LOL.


299 posted on 01/21/2010 2:46:37 PM PST by onyx
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To: potlatch

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Well laadeedaa!


300 posted on 01/21/2010 6:58:14 PM PST by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . woodpile alert - "My muslim faith....." - "Kobe" Osama . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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