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Let me begin with a disclaimer.\u00a0 I personally have zero fashion sense.\u00a0 I am literally incapable of dressing myself.\u00a0 In addition, I am color blind.\u00a0 I do see color; it just isn\u2019t the same color as seen by most people.\u00a0 Up to now, the world has been protected from me showing up wearing some really bizarre color combinations solely through the dedicated efforts of my wife and my three daughters.\u00a0 The pattern was been repeated on numerous occasions.\u00a0 I would get dressed and come down stairs.\u00a0 Instantly all four females would scan my outfit for color violations.\u00a0 I still remember when my youngest daughter was five years old.\u00a0 I came down the stairs and was immediately greeted with:\u00a0 \u201cDad\u2026.NO!\u201d\u00a0 I now have \u201csafe\u201d outfits, usually including black pants which, theoretically, work with any color.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I once was at a trade show where Doug McClure was making appearances at the booth next to me.\u00a0 I noticed that everything he wore just looked right.\u00a0 I was also keenly aware that even if I wore the exact same clothes, they still<\/em> wouldn\u2019t look right, because he was Doug McClure and I was, well\u2026me.\u00a0 It\u2019s really simple:\u00a0 some people got it, some people don\u2019t.\u00a0 With all due respect, Jacqueline Kennedy do, Michelle Obama don\u2019t.\u00a0 Even to someone like me, that is really obvious.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t begin to give advice on how to look good, but I still know it when I see it.\u00a0 Yet, there were all these articles gushing about Michelle Obama.\u00a0 The following headlines are typical of the crap we have been assaulted with for the past two years:<\/p>\n

New York<\/strong> Daily Post \u2013 August 27, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michelle Obama’s fashion running mate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

AFP \u2013 January 21, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michelle Obama becomes First Fashion Lady<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today \u2013 November 25, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once again, first lady\u2019s fashion sense dazzles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Get Gravy on the First Lady\u2019s Gown<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 This article was so over the top I couldn\u2019t resist providing the following excerpt:\u00a0<\/p>\n

FIRST Lady Michelle Obama<\/a> is now officially a fashion plate. \u00a0Not that there were any doubts before, mind you. Often called the First Lady of Fashion, Mrs. Obama has a sense of style, as we all know by now, that rivals Jackie Kennedy\u2019s.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0There are certainly friends of mine who do have some sense of fashion that confirm my opinion.\u00a0 But, I viewed this similar to the way I view modern art.\u00a0 Beauty must be in the eye of the beholder because sometimes what other people consider to be brilliant art looks to me like the random result of a collision between several open paint cans, each with a different color.\u00a0 In the case of Michelle Obama, there were these \u201cother pictures\u201d of her circling the internet indicating that my personal opinion was not necessarily unique.\u00a0\u00a0 Then there was the following article today in the Hindustan Times.\u00a0 This is from the HT Fashion Watcher and it is, well, refreshing:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Heard what they said about you, Mrs O?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
HT Fashion Watcher<\/a>, Hindustan Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 14, 2010<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Is it dreadfully hot in India? Doesn’t she have a stylist on this trip? Her hair looks like she hasn’t bothered combing it and her makeup and eyebrows are also a bit off \u2026” says CJ in London. “She needs a tailor and a stylist. Everyone in the whole world knows this,” says This isn’t just another celebrity being dissed in conversation; these are the comments that Michelle Obama’s outfits during her trip to India, are drawing on the World Wide Web. While the Indian media thought that the first lady’s outfits were elegant and understated, people on the other end of the globe had a different take on her choices. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From being called “frumpy” to “old and unflattering” to “sporting the worst look ever,” the bashing by bloggers began right from the day she landed in Mumbai wearing a blue-grey outfit. Comments like “It’s a colour for someone who’s 70,” or “the emperor’s wife has dreadful taste” have flooded mrs-o.org, a blog that follows Michelle Obama’s fashion sense. Readers on washingtonpost.com, dailymail.co.uk and even on huffingtonpost.com are not mincing their words.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So what’s the real reason the first lady is being fashion bashed? How can someone who’s been on best-dressed lists for three years in a row, suddenly be criticised for every piece of clothing or accessory she owns\/wears?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The answer may lie in the recently held mid-term polls in the US. When a country is unhappy with the presidency, one of the first things that is often targeted is their lifestyle. Something that Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy are acutely aware of.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is entertaining, but the author missed the point.\u00a0 Michelle Obama\u2019s sense of fashion hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 All that\u2019s really happened is that the glow from the halo has diminished to a level where the star struck main stream media can actually see, well, Michelle Obama.\u00a0 Jacqueline Kennedy\u2019s legacy is still safe!<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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