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)
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.
Is that her mother laying on the floor next to her watching TV?
She deserves to be able to blow a little dough.
She works darn hard, and she is frugal in ways that offset the hideous coat.
Look at all them Vega tables she raised.
I guess she yam what she yam.
And she has really well toned arms...
wear the same clothes as the peasantss
Well no- the peasants look good in their clothes. No way that can be said for that so called coat.
So the Obamas donated 5 coats to Haiti relief.
That is funny I almost missed that. wow to bad I had not found this photo for those posts huh?
By the way that photo is from Michelle Obamas fashion web site REALLY!
I agree. Designers want them to wear their clothes so they get seen.
BTW..that is one fugly coat.
why is it that really expensive clothes this woman buys always look like part of a tacky home decor?
ROTFL!
My grandmother used to wear a coat that look similar to that. Only she bought it at the five and dime for about 6 bucks.
I should go through my wife’s older wardrobe, I’m sure I can find so old crap she doesn’t wear any more and sell it to Michelle for 2 to 3 k a pop. We’ll just call it my Stimulus Package.
Obama makes what $370,000 a year as President and was flat broke about 6 years ago so where is all of this money coming from? he didn’t sell that many books to have the money to spend like this!
My 20 year old living room drapes look better than anything I have seen The Wookie in.
ROFL!!! Quote of the day, MY! (maybe it WAS an oven mitt!)
Or...she can recycle it as a set of oven mitts!
If only that gal could buy herself some good taste, she
wouldn’t always look like a fool in her clothes!
I believe that...this looks like something my grandmother would wear. Whoever is picking out her clothes needs to re-think the trends.
I saw MAYBE two outfits that were not completely disgustingly ugly!
Where are the fashion police when you need them most!
$2,763?
Did they hit her in the head?
Because they sure did rob her, er, us...again.
She could have bought a “Bubble coat” at Walmart for 6 bucks.
Does it come with a matching feed bag?
Ugh! The gushing descriptions alone nearly turned my tummy!
That jacket is the worst piece of distorted cloth I've ever seen. Horrible, imo. We never would have carried it. And there's no way it cost more than $20 bucks; $80 on the high side.
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