The people at Vogue are still drinking the Kool-Aid. In fact, they’re swilling it. Need proof? How about the fact that they just named Michelle Obama to their Best Dressed of 2010 list.
They introduced the list with this gag-inducing, overwritten, under thought out prose:
Whether it’s sleek chic or cyberfantasy, silver-screen Hollywood glamour or Holly Woodlawn camp, whether it’s East End edge or East Egg flapper dazzle, from head (artful marcel waves, tumbled-out-of-bed tousle, or candy-floss high-rise) to toe (ballet slippers with dirndls or platforms with ball gowns), the ten individualists whom Vogue celebrates as the Best Dressed of 2010 are gamely rewriting the rules. Or rather, showing us all that there are no rules beyond staying true to oneself.
Let’s get serious, Vogue.
We were expecting another story like this to come along sooner or later, so we’ve been collecting recent photos that more accurately reflect Michelle Obama’s sense of fashion when she’s truly “staying true to herself.”
Jackie Kennedy she ain’t. In the above photo, Michelle stays true to herself by digging for gold in front of the Indonesian Prime Minister.
Source: Vogue
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Women can have “big” butts and look good point being someone like Kim Kardashian it is not the fact that she has a big butt that is the problem…. the problem is that she has no friends that tell her the truth of the clothes that she wears that do not help her show the best parts of her body. She is trying to dress in whatever clothes some idiot gives her and then doesn’t do any type of self criticism. I dont know what mirrors are placed in front of her. Now she has worn some nice things that flatter her skin color, her features and her body, but unfortunately like someone said Jackie O she is not.
I’d like to nominate the first lady for “What Not to Wear.” I think Clinton and Stacy could/would straighten her out.
Kimmy, don’t take it personally. The two are mutually exclusive.
It is the rare occasion that a woman with a huge backside can be made to look good…it is still a big backside detracting from the whole. Some people thought anna nicole smith looked good…excuse me….don’t think so….but mutually exclusive to her giant backside, she dressed well.
In this case, mu’chelle, not only does she NOT dress well (see the original “queen of frump” comment), she has a backside of extreme size. See picure #6….exceptionally well dressed…backsides, et al. Case in point. Who are they…and why are they with that frumpy lady?
Had to give you a thumb down on that, Charles. I have seen many women with hind ends larger than the one in question, who still had class and looked good. It just has to be done in a certain way, and that certain way has completely evaded Michelle. Our waitress at dinner last night had a large behind, wrapped in black jeans, wearing a plain button up black shirt, and I thought she was very nice looking. Michelle couldn’t do that, though. She has to be a “fashion plate.” Yeah, right. Michelle is about as beautiful as Hussein is patriotic.
Charles Strasburger: the skirt is not even ironed. Looks like she just grabbed whatever was in the hamper and threw it on.
I’m thinking that the FLINO grabbed whatever was on the bedroom floor, did the ol’ “sniff the pits” routine, and put it on.
I am not going to take it personally but I believe that you are wrong. Also take into consideration that there is big and there is big depending on who you are, where you are coming from, what your own body looks like and your likes and dislikes… so backside size can be a relative situation. It is possible to have a backside that some people will deem “big” AND wear appropriate clothes that makes them look good and appropriate overall. I do it everyday. I ALWAYS get compliments on my “big” ass, but that is because I don’t wear innappropriate clothing and I am able to accentuate what has to be accentuate and then cover up what has to be covered up.
Like I said not having a fantastical idea of what the body looks like, instead focus on what is actually there to work with is the problem here. She is not self-critical, nor does she have friends or someone who would really criticize what she wears. If she wears better fitting clothing her backside won’t be a problem.
I can just hear Barry at the Karaoke machine:
“I like big butts and I cannot (not) lie”
I do like #6 especially. Not sure, but I think that’s Mrs. Perlcat on the left.
Incorrect. That is Mrs. Admin and Mrs. Editor, Betty and Veronica.
The great Karnak forsees nookie in your future.
No amount of makeup can fix that. She has the back side of a field hand.. Just look at her haunch and tell me she couldn’t pull a plow.
The selection of Michelle Obama to Vogue’s “best dressed” list says more about Vogue’s politics than its fashion sense. Still it’s always fun to see her in her frumpy best.
She reminds me of school on Saturday-NO CLASS
Money does not equal class. One of the frst things a Southerner learns at his mother’s knee. You cannot BUY class. You have it or you don’t. Sort of like character.
*Ba-dum* *Tis*
Can’t we just be real and call her the “queen of frump”? Seriously……
And, please, the size of her………buttocks?
my RODS AND CONES!!@1!!
AAAARRRRGGHHHHH!!!
that which has been seen, cannot be UNSEEN!!
Please tell me Vogue’s article is tongue-in-cheek!
…I’m thinking more like “nose in cheeks.”
I’m thinking that the field for comparison only went so far as comparing Moochelle to the turd in the Vogue editor’s pocket.
Unfortunately, they are that far out there…
In other news:
For the past 25 years Vogue’s importance has been vastly overstated.
I am going to have to agree. I still like Vogue but it has gone crazier and crazier as the years go by.
The bottom photo looks like one of those Sasquatch shots!!
Made me look twice. And you’re right–hahhah!
Damn, this football player, errr, I mean woman, is fugly. She’s got a rear end like a horse, has a man’s build, and has about as much fashion sense as a rock. Maybe she is considered “well dressed”, in the standards of black women…who knows.
The First Lady is nearly 6 ft. tall, the mother of 2 children and a successful business woman. She, clearly, takes her role as First Lady and national/international role model very seriously. Everyone doesn’t believe striking a pose is the best way to exert self-confidence. Some people let their actions speak for themselves. Body-type is a non-issue as long as the fit of clothing is clean. Michelle is confident, successful and inventive in her use of color and textiles. The race card is your own insecurity. Only the lonely find cookie-cutter triviality en vogue.
Businesswoman ?
Since when ?
ayayayay… Rev. even though I agree that mentioning of race in this particular situation is irrelevant, almost the entirety of your post is a bit whack.
I haven’t heard of her running a successful business… please elaborate.
Uhm, going to Spain on my dime or even partly my dime with her daughter for no official nor ambassadorial purpose is not taking the role of First Lady seriously. She could have used that money and go to an African country and help widowed women build businesses to take care of themselves and their children, since as you say, she is such a successful business woman (?). Or else she could have stayed at home and help the families of those suffering because of the Gulf oil spill or perhaps natural disasters. What have she done for the people of the US other than to tell us we are too fat and the govt needs to control what we eat?
Fine she doesn’t need to act like a model, but her actions will not speak very highly of herself.
This is the thing it is not necessarily that she has an ugly body per se it just that there are things about it that she should cover and then highlight other things better or more. The fitting of a lot of her clothing is not “clean” nor proper for her body type, so body type is an imporant consideration when you are wearing clothes.
Yes she is extremely self confident for a person that has not really achieved anything in life on her own completely. Successful in what? Being the wife of the President? okay… ? Inventive yes quite, but not successful as the colors and textiles of a lot of her wardrobe are not good for her body type nor skin color.
Then why is she wearing clothes that are too big (the first photo with the Indonesian president) or too tight (in one photo you can see her thong (gag) panty line. I thought that was why women WORE thongs-so there would be no panty line! In some shots her ass is a yard wide, in others, it appears much smaller. I have nothing to say about the at-home shot by the white house. Grungy is ok at home. Of course, have you ever SEEN the guy from VOGUE? Leon Talley or something. HE wouldn’t know fashion if it bit him in the ass!
A thong on our first lady could double as a hammock. Domestically and internationally, she puts the a– in embarrassment!
…Now, where did I put that mind-bleach again?
“Michelle is confident, successful and inventive in her use of color and textiles.”
You missed out on some adjectives. Here, *let me ‘help’ you*:
“profligate, ‘visually impaired’, contumacious, indiscriminate, inept”
I suppose I missed a few. Guys?
I believe that we have found out that the IRL ‘Biggus Dickus’ is married to the IRL ‘Incontinentia Buttocks’
http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/13.htm
The race card expired on Jan. 20, 2009. You can’t play it anymore.
It will be rejected.Continually playing the race card shows YOUR insecurity.We will criticize both Barack and Michelle as we see fit.Michelle Obama consistently wears tacky and ill-fitting clothes. There is no excuse because she has access to the best tailors and stylists.
Ohoh…the dreaded race card…guess we know who’s a Kommie.
Dude I seen full plastic garbage bags with more class then her. She dresses to look like the homeless after a flea market free clothing melee.
it’s funny how class is becomes relative when you’re unable to recognize it.
Oh, I can recognize it all right. I’m just not seeing it here.
The fit is clean? I guess you’ve only been looking at the photoshops of MO. Reverend, why is MO photographed only with black children? I don’t think the post-ers here are the one playing the race card.
I’m wondering about the “fit is clean’ bit. Could it be that the reverend has used that term before? i.e. “Clean, Articulate, Light-Skinned, and No Negro Dialect!”
Joe?!? That you?!?!
So you’re the one who’s still drinking the Kool-Aid, Reverend. We’d heard there was still someone out there and wondered who it was.
Since when it Michelle Obama a successful business woman? What business did she ever have? The only thing she’s ever been successful at is being Barack Obama’s wife. Read a little about her hospital job, why she got it and when she got it.
Are you really trying to suggest that a woman who attended Princeton and Harvard, who then was hired by one of the biggest law firms in the country isn’t successful?
Yeah, young lady… even you should realize the difference between “successful” and “successful business woman.”
Yep. You clocked onto that one right away. I’d give you a cigar, but I suppose you don’t smoke.
Getting hired by a prestigious law firm can mean no more than they wanted to buy influence somewhere, and judging by how she conducted herself at the places she’s worked, it would be a frosty day in hell before I’d give her the benefit of the doubt on anything she lists on her resume.
For all we know, the law firm just wanted to know how they can make baby kittens into motor oil, and in their talent search, googled ‘amoral’ by accident instead of ‘a moral’, and found her in the patient dumping section of the results.
I suppose you could say she was successful at improving her hospital’s revenue, but personally, I wouldn’t be proud of it at all.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
One with your self-professed superiority should be able to read well enough to know the difference between “successful” and “successful business woman.” Michelle Obama has never started nor run a business in her life.
No she is considered well dress by the standards of Vogue. Which in this case is surprisingly off. There is no need to bring that into play. It was unnecessary.
No. She’s not considered “well dressed” in any person’s standards. No matter the colour.
Best dressed what? Sack of potatoes?