Posted on 07/26/2016 11:09:05 AM PDT by McGruff
Michelle Obama went as low-key as Melania Trump had gone high-style, choosing to deliver her convention speech in a cobalt-blue silk crepe A-line dress with cap sleeves.
The dress, custom-made by New York-based designer Christian Siriano, who shot to fame after winning the fourth season of “Project Runway” in 2008, fell to just below the knee and was paired with a pair of metallic heels that industry trade publication Footwear News identifies as Jimmy Choo pumps.
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Trash bag or tarp? I knew I saw that somewhere before.
Oh, you’re right....it’s one of the tarps that they drag out, in Yankee Stadium, when it rains! LOL
There’s not much (safe) surgery that can really fix you below the rib cage the way that old-fashioned foundation garments could.
(Of course, if you had too much to stuff-and-cinch, you risked fainting frequently ;-)
You can do a lot with how the various lines of a dress are shortened or elongated; here’s an interesting snippet by Edith Head, on how the..um..’accoutrements’ of Bette Davis were handled:
http://alfredospaella.blogspot.com/2009/08/shes-got-bette-davis-thighs.html
-JT
We use them all the time. Cover woodpile, gather leaves. Buy them by the box. They put them on the roofs until they can be repaired after bAd wind storms
Yes, I’ve seen them on roofs here. ;^)
Its out there. She had lipo.
Next time I use one I’ll think of her. Lol
LOL.....we’ve started something that now neither of us will be able to forget. :-)
She doesn't like us White folks but she sure does love our hair...
Have you ever seen an African grow that shade of hair? just wondering.
Until I hit 40 yrs. old, I stayed at around 118 lbs.,
I’ll be 70 in a few days, July 29th. After 40, weight
crept up & with the addition of BP drugs that cause fluid
retention; I crept up until I’m now 180 lbs. (I’d try
some other meds, but have been there, done that & now have
a formula of multiple pills that “work” at least to some
degree.
I used to be able to eat like a pig and never gain an
ounce. Now, I just wear muu-muus and eat. If I don’t, I
get weak and collapse & can’t have that. Fang has had a
LOT of major surgeries over the years, starting when he
was about 40. (In fact, I think he got sort of addicted to
surgeries in a way; but the last one like to took him on
out of this mortal coil. He DID die on the table in the
last one; but the doctor managed to get his heart beating
finally. (He didn’t have any visions or anything; but I
told him, “No more surgeries!” - and his surgeon told him
the same thing. -
His first surgeon operated on him NUMEROUS times before
the surgeon finally retired and the others in practice with
him REFUSED to allow him to order up surgeries any more.
So, it is a thing one just takes a day at a time; but I’m
not able to go through any more month long recovery
periods or sleeping in a chair in his hospital room.
For better or worse, almost 53 yrs. married to this man.
Twinkie
I’m sticking with what I said. Melania’s dress isn’t a dinner dress - those stiff bouffant bell sleeves would be knocking everything over on the table. It’s a boardroom (wife of the boss, not dept vp) or, if you like, a charity stand-up social dress.
I felt the same way about the most they created between the speakers and the lowly delegates.
Do the Dems think the delegates are going to rush the stage? Well, yes, I guess after tonight they would think that.
Congratulations on your long marriage, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY on Friday! Hope you get a great birthday cake. I think every person should have a birthday cake, would even bake one for myself all the years the kids were young and I was a single parent. Carrot cake is my favorite.
I know what you mean about “addicted to surgeries”... Have seen people with that, and many of the doctors are more than willing to promote the habit.
I can’t swear that he’s “addicted” to surgeries. It’s just
that he has had SO many over the past 30 years. (A LOT of
hernias largely because of being cut on so often; has an
ileostomy bag at this point.) After 15 surgeries, I lost
count. :o( I just thank the Lord that he’s alive & trying
some different approaches to the hernias now besides hernia
surgery. :o)
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