Mrs Obama debuted a new floral frock in a bold, red rose print, accessorized with green kitten heels and chandelier earrings.
It's actually a good look for her, but it was ludicrously inappropriate for this solemn and dignified occasion. Maybe it would have been worse if she had gone dressed as a clown or a Mujahadeen, but this was pretty bad.
Her handlers simply have no sense of what is correct attire for a given event - except on the following, glorious occasion, where they hit the nail right on the head.
I don’t buy the “handlers” angle. Manchelle is a Princeton and Harvard graduate. She worked in a law firm. She’s in her 40’s. Unless she is blind, she had to know from many meetings and ceremonies that she has attended or spoken at over the last 20+ years that this dress was horribly off base. When she goes to a function to speak, she wears some weird outfits, but never anything as garish as this. I have to think it was a deliberate insult. Keep in mind they were on their way to give a medal indirectly connected to the killing of muzzies, and the family receiving it is WHITE. As insulting and hateful to America as both zero and Manchelle are, I have to think she did it deliberately. Before she hit the big time lifestyle of living off other people’s money, she didn’t dress like that. Remember during the early days of the campaign? She didn’t dress particularly well and some of her outfits were unflattering to her figure, but she didn’t wear outfits that were grossly inappropriate for the occasion.
Separating the dress from the occasion, it’s not a bad dress compared to most of her stuff, it fits well and looks better on her than many of her other get-ups. But even a decent enough dress like this can’t cure or even mask her bad posture and gawky, awkward arm swing and plodding, plowing giant-step walk.
She should consider spending a little of her own money for the purpose of attending modeling or charm school for a week or two, at least just enough to teach her how to stand, walk, carry herself and dress appropriately.
