Sunday, November 21, 2010

Michelle Obama, Fashion Plate?

Michelle Obama, Fashion Plate?

I readily and happily admit I’m no fashion maven and readily concede I long thought a “fashion plate” was a complimentary way of referring to a nice piece of dinnerware.

I also admit that I once published an opinion, http://tiny.cc/sgsbf, that hailing America’s First Lady Michelle Obama as one of 2009′s “100 Hottest Women,” according to Maxim, was grossly mistaken at best, bizarre at worst. Even if she didn’t make Maxim’s hotness cut in 2010, on reconsideration, I guess that’s yet another example of beauty–and hotness–existing in the minds and perceptions of beholders.

However, I draw the line at Vogue’s recent designation of Michelle Obama as among the world’s 10 ”best dressed” women. Looking all gussied up de-planing in Mexico City, she placed third behind Blake Lively and Marion Cotillard and just before Jessica Biel and Alexa Chung: http://tiny.cc/qbnp2

If males can be catty, I guess that’s catty, as well as rude and mean-spirited, commenting on a woman’s appearance, but in the case of the pretentious Michelle Obama, it’s merited.

As an article on IOwntheWorld.com adds to its headline on that best dressed news, “No, Seriously.” However, Vogue is apparently as serious as was Maxim in 2009.

I mean, seriously, really, Michelle Obama as “best dressed?” Best dressed for where? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2765)

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