Michelle Obama Watch

I didn’t particularly care for the dizzying dress either. But she’s still a stunner. No bones about it. And that’s why all eyes are on her; because she’s long, leggy, smart, and she has Barack. She is the green with envy and the admiration in the eyes of women around the world.

She’s gonna kill with the wardrobe. Cause she makes high and low end look hot. I agree that the red and black wasn’t the right dress for the occasion; but it was a horrible dress. I think the cardigan destroyed the runway feel of the dress. Michelle has perfect arms and I just don’t understand why she didn’t let them show.

The fact of the matter is that people are judging Michelle Obama by anglo standards of beauty, and we’ve got to get past that. That same dress on someone like Sarah Palin or Cindy McCain would have looked totally wrong. They lack the expansive and powerful personality to carry such a frock off.

Speaking for myself, I love wearing bright reds, including lipstick. Michelle’s dress was a vibrant and eye-catching as the lady herself is and we’d better get used to that. I think she should go edgy more often, but with a nod to the classics. And the first daughters looked sooooo cute! I wanted to cuddle them.

Is it sexist? Yes it is, because we’re all guilty of diminishing her accomplishments as a strong and intelligent black woman to waste time on something as inconsequential as a one-night only piece of cloth. I think we should begin focusing in on what she wants to do as First Lady to help working mothers and military families survive.

Kymberlyn said”The fact of the matter is that people are judging Michelle Obama by anglo standards of beauty, and we’ve got to get past that. That same dress on someone like Sarah Palin or Cindy McCain would have looked totally wrong. They lack the expansive and powerful personality to carry such a frock off.”

Um nope, the dress would have looked worse on them. Second, that dress in no way is equal to a human being. This has nothing to do with anglo standards of beauty. This has to do with fabric and a pattern. Michelle looked awesome. The dress did not live up to the fabulousness that is Michelle Obama.

All summer long we have been enjoying collecting magazine covers around here.

Nobody is diminishing her accomplishments. Trust me, just because you are a lawyer doesn’t mean you don’t like to get dressed up.

Again, separate fabric from human beings.

If all you want us to focus on is policy, then you need to find another blog because we are going to enjoy IT ALL. All of the pageantry of the presidency. The First Lady oversees that pageantry. This is our payoff. We get to see Michelle looking stunning before the world. We also get to coo over what she selects for the menu of her first state dinner, what she will wear when they light the White House Christmas tree, what she will wear at the White House Easter egg roll and on.

I wrote earlier that Michelle’s dress was vibrant and eye-catching, which obviously means I LIKED IT. My point is that there is MORE the Michelle Obama than that Narciso Rodriguez dress, and we need to bear that in mind. Perhaps we’re just not used to seeing such edginess from a first lady because all we’ve had for eight years is Laura “Stepford Wife” Bush. And I’m sorry, Cindy McCain just looks like a refugee from the Junior League.

BTW, I stopped reading Essence Magazine a LONG time ago because of their lack of diversity when it came to black women. Not all of us have long flowing locks and are super thin. I wanted a magazine that supposedly represented black women in our variety to showcase that variety. Also, I hated the articles they did on interracial dating–it was like a bad guilt trip, and black women don’t need that.

Media Alert: The Obamas are on the cover of the upcoming US Weekly. I couldn’t find the picture of it though on the ‘net, but since I bought it today, I know it to be true.

We don’t ONLY talk about her clothes, we talk about her accomplishments too…we commented on how she handles the press, on how she appears in interviews, on what she has done behind the scenes to help Barack’s candidacy, on how she has dealt with the negative comments…we have commented on the good and the bad professionally…so let’s have some fun and comment on the good and bad of her style. She’s allowed to make mistakes, professionally and creatively and personally. I don’t think the majority of the comments have been mean-spirited or sexist, it’s been women talking about what they love: clothes.

And clothes-wise, I think Michelle has put the focus on herself…she loves fashion, she loves looking good, she loves being herself, and part of that is commenting on her style. What I am the most giddy about in her personal style is that it exudes who she is…her accomplishments, her self-confidence, her intelligence, her sexiness, her self-respect, her prettiness, her femininity…her style reflects ALL OF who she is, and we are absolutely in awe.

We are so used to seeing rail thin, blank-eyed starlets wearing trendy clothes whose only accomplishments are the ability to take those clothes off…the clothes don’t represent them, they represent what these starlets think the public wants to see them in. Fashion, at its truest form, is about self-expression and self-care. It’s is about representing who you are intellectually, emotionally and creatively, and to do that, you really need to know who you are deep down and be confident in who you are. We love Michelle because she is the smart, sexy, self-knowing woman’s fashionista.

I’m so glad you said this! While I consider myself a pretty staunch feminist, I was interested to see what she was going to wear, and Shakesville had me feeling all guilty about it.

Michelle Obama’s role on election night was to stand as a wife, mother, and partner alongside her family, not a policy aide. If she had given a speech on a substantive issue and everyone commented on her pretty dress rather than what she said, I’d be offended. But Tuesday night was Barack’s night and it was a celebration for both her family and her country. They all looked fantastic.

I think MIchelle Obama lacks finesse and grace. She keeps herself up nice, however she walks and carries herself quite awkward. She is not First Lady material.

Well, Michelle is now the alpha female of the United States. All eyes are on her. She is a role model. People look to her for inspiration. Naturally, what she wears is a part of that discussion. If you remember, when she wore the black and white leaf print, it flew off the rack and went into back orders.

I think she got bad advice on the red and black dress. It actually competed for attention with Barack’s win and that’s not good. Barack and the girls looked great.

While I agree that Michelle is a little awkward (kinda like a female basketball player in a dress) I definitely think that she is first lady material. In fact she will adjust. The clothes, the finesse, she will come into her own. She already has the foundation which includes beauty, smarts, accomplishments and the most powerful man in the world who loves her and lets everyone know. They are a package deal… get over it!

I took the poll and voted no. Michelle is now an American icon. We CARE about what she wears. She’s a role model and a wonderful person.

dose not have her boobs hanging out.

no i don’t think it’s sexist
i think people are just interested in her
doesn’t matter what the subject is
they are just interested in her
i always wait to see what she’s wearing
she’s a classy woman
and will make a wonderful first lady

In addition her legs in the dress looked like stumps of trees