Most department stores sell sleeveless dresses today no matter what the season.”
Uses less fabric yet costs have increased. Kind of like making all the packaged items in the grocery store smaller yet costlier. Skirts are also getting shorter too. Skirt length seems to be a sign of the direction of the economy. Would love to see the “old fashioned” tailored well made suit return.
I doubt seriously if Michelle shops where most of us do. In fact I would suspect that if we were to buy anything off the rack it would have to be altered. Her idea of what is appropriate for the wife of the President to wear and mine are generations and worlds apart. She does have class, albeit low.
I would like to see better quality fabric too. A lot of the the stuff you see today is cheap and flimsy looking. Have you noticed that you can’t find reasonably priced leather shoes anymore? They’re all made of man-made whatever, and if you go to Marshals to buy a leather handbag, you’re looking at $75 to $100.
Some of Mrs. Obama’s clothes look like she got them at Good Will. She really wore some ridiculous looking outfits at the beginning of her “reign.”