Two Years Running, Michelle Shows 'Em How You Do It To It, Again 0 comments
Michelle Obama, not Cindy McCain, wins best dressed vote
BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
Wednesday, July 30th 2008, 4:00 AM
Michelle Obama (l.) won Vanity Fair's fashion vote, while Cindy McCain got snubbed.
Score one for Michelle Obama.
The First Lady fashion fight continues as the Democrat White House wanna-be got the vote from Vanity Fair, which put her on its global best-dressed list for the second year in a row.
They praised her simple, chic style - calling her "our commander in sheath." Left off the coveted roster was Cindy McCain, who must've felt like, well, sheath, from the snub.
Clothes make the woman, after all. Like it or lump it, the personal style of each candidate's wife has become an important part in establishing individuality, likability and power.
Cindy McCain made news while getting a private peek at Oscar de la Renta's fancy fall line (her grumbling bodyguards, left to stand outside the designer's studio in the heat, gave the story away). But Michelle Obama, who has her own favorite high-end designers, has made sure to advertise her everywoman-frugality every chance she gets.
Women across the country bought the pitch - and the dress - when Obama announced she was wearing a $150 White House Black Market frock (she revealed she shops at Target, too).
It's down-to-earth versus fussbudget? Maybe, but McCain has been working to relax her rigid look - and her reputation.
Earlier this month she traded her rigid updo for a wavier, more carefree coiffure. Without saying a word, she let it be known she can cut loose.
Time for a Buff First Lady 0 comments
I read this review in the newspaper - it talked about what Michelle Obama was wearing. I work out with weights 3x/week and I have thought about this alot.
The most notable aspect of her dress was that it was sleeveless. In the preposterously narrowly defined sartorial world of first ladyness, this means something other than it is June and thus, warm.
Generally, the women who have occupied the White House have been loath to appear sleeveless in public, as if the upper arms are some sort of political erogenous zone. They also tend to wardrobe themselves in suits that are tasteful above everything else -- including comfortable, flattering or even vaguely fashionable. So Obama was bucking tradition.
It is also true that a significant number of women, beginning as early as 30-something, don't particularly enjoy revealing their arms because they are self-conscious that theirs do not look like Madonna's sinewy limbs. While Michelle Obama doesn't look as though she spends half her day in a yoga half push-up -- chaturanga dandasana, to be specific -- she looks fit and she's got the arms to prove it.
