Always so much to talk about when it comes to World Famous Fashion Icon and Busy Mom Michelle Obama™!
AP Headline: Mrs. Obama bringing glamor to Moscow this weekend
You mean like the personal style she brought to Paris on her recent vacation? The MSM continues to promote the idea that World Famous Fashion Icon and Busy Mom Michelle Obama is more that she actually is. Glamour? What she has is a personal style and that style is far from glamorous. Unless this linked article purposely misspells glamour and is trying to credit her with some new fashion trend made up of too-small cardigans, too-high belts and age-inappropriate choices.
Let's talk today about basic female body shapes. Every woman without exception knows what they are and which one she has. The idea is then to dress to conceal or flatter. In the event that my male readers are not familiar with this, let me inform you that the basic shapes are: apple, banana, pear and hourglass.
But now, thanks to our first lady, a fifth shape has been discovered ...
... the wine bottle shape. Or maybe it's the "glamor" shape.
Now here's some fashion advice for Michelle : wearing a wide belt on your ribcage doesn't help anything. Note how the boob droops over the belt. Fetching!
It looks wrong because it is wrong. No one is going to think that's a cool fashion trend. Not all of your ideas are good ones. Until we start seeing women walking around with a big belt worn on the outside of a sweater, you're on your own, style-wise.
Don't believe your own press and start thinking that whatever you do is going to be copied by people without style of their own or schlubs who who have no idea what to do with themselves.
Or maybe it will:
Lordy, let's not look to Al Franken's wife for fashion suggestions! I just worry that the two of them couldn't afford braces for themselves.
And really, why the high belt, Michelle? Why? Kind of makes me think of Blossom's friend Six and her high waisted pants and suspenders. Lordy, I do not want to go there again!
Posted by: Kitsch (My new signature just because) | July 06, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Really, she's more like an Urkel imitator. Fraud!!
...and Franken's wife. There are no words for that fabric. Skinned a sofa indeed.
Posted by: pam | July 07, 2009 at 07:23 AM
This made me have that combination laugh/cry thing happen the same as when you said Hillary looked like Merv Griffin. Shit, that picture next to the bottle, and with that little head on top? Girl, please, have some mercy.
Posted by: Erica | July 07, 2009 at 08:32 AM
Keep in mind the original meaning of "glamour" (glamor):
# Archaic. A magic spell; enchantment. As "cast a glamour" or make someone believe something was true when it wasn't.
Appropriate for both she and her husband.
Posted by: The Proprietor | July 07, 2009 at 08:53 AM
Now that I have recovered from laughing... Wait... OK... Thank you for another spot on MO assessment. And thank my lucky stars that I did not have a beverage when I started reading...
But on behalf of sofas everywhere, a movement to prevent the unauthorized and inhumane use of sofa pelts...
Posted by: jck | July 07, 2009 at 09:55 PM
"Skinned a dead sofa for its pelt" made me LOL so hard. It really did. That's just DAMNED FUNNY. Why can't *I* come up with shit that funny?
Anyway, I love any of your fashion/MO posts and I'm really really really glad to see you're going to be analyzing Mrs. Franken as well as MO.
Posted by: dogette | July 08, 2009 at 08:16 AM
There is a major difference here. As far as I know, Franni Franken has never set herself up as a fashion icon, so I am willing to cut her some slack.
Michelle, on the other hand, gets what she deserves.
Posted by: The Proprietor | July 08, 2009 at 11:12 AM
There is an excellent reason why I visit your blog when I'm feeling ready to scream... because you make me laugh myself silly. "Skinned a dead sofa for its pelt". OMG - brilliant!
Posted by: Teresa | July 08, 2009 at 12:55 PM