Oh, noes! Michelle not only wears shorts, but a dress from Target

[mnhtnbb]

while deplaning from Air Force One!

The fashion police are in a tizzy with the whole shorts thing. What else do you wear to the Grand Canyon?

Now, the fact that someone discovered she was wearing a dress from "Tarzhay" (French pronunciation, please)
really has the fashionistas in an uproar!

Don't you just love Michelle? She's so refreshing--so real.



http://blogs.usatoday.com/entertainment/2009/08/michell...

[hobbit709]

1. I guess they'd rather have her wearing the WH drapes like Laura.

Fuck the fashion police.

[msanthrope]

42. She wore the sofa, damnit-

As Betty Bowers often noted.

http://www.bettybowers.com/fl7.html

[Jennicut]

2. I go to Target all the time....wtf is wrong with these snobs? And who cares what she wears

as we have more important problems facing this nation, right?

[Hello_Kitty]

24. I love Target. eom

[MoJoWorkin]

3. I really liked that dress---even before I knew where it came from.

No one would have known it was from Target. My Michelle always looks good.
Put her in a sack and she would look good.

[eleny]

4. This is the photo that shows how Sasha favors her mom's features

Both caught at the same angle descending the steps and with the same expression. What a terrific picture.

[quantass]

5. Its times like these that CHANGE the face of things for the better -- Future 1st Ladies will look

at Michelle fondly for breaking the mold of what a 1st lady is allowed to wear. This uproar is not unsual and is quite common in other fields before a breakthrough happens. It's sad to think that to this day women are still forced into being/doing something they dont choose. I am glad Michelle is finally the first 1st lady to just want ot be herself. She will be remembered in history. Laura will not.

[a la izquierda]

6. I swear, I want to...

smack the crap out of about half of the collective American population.

[barbiegeek]

7. I'd barf if I saw Barbara Bush in Shorts

[Hekate]

26. Babs is a rotund old lady -- shorts are not in her wardrobe, I guarantee you.

Women should wear what flatters them. Michelle Obama is tall, toned and in her 40s -- just about everything looks good on her, and she has the good taste to dress appropriately for every occasion. I simply do not get the so-called fashionistas.

Hekate

[TankLV]

46. I just barf whenever I see babs, period...

[a la izquierda]

8. I swear, I want to...

smack the crap out of about half of the collective American population.

[OHdem10]

9. Many of the people in the Media are the noveaux riche. The New

Rich always show their newness with a lack of class.
They are so taken with their own ability to now buy "designer"
they thinks this gives a chance to "look down and critique"
others.

The fact that Michelle relates fully the Middle Class and
is saying to people who can only afford to shop at Target:
Hey, Target Fashion is good.

The New Elites cannot swallow the idea of relating to the
Middle Class. After all, many of them worked to get out of
it.

You go, Michelle.

[Berry Cool]

10. Oh noes! How common!

Now some poor woman who can't afford anything other than a Target dress might put it on and think SHE looks as good as the First Lady of the United States!! She might even come to think she's as WORTHWHILE A PERSON as the First Lady of the United States!!

Can't have that!!...That would mean mass insurrections!!!!

...bwahahahahahahaha.

[Buzz Clik]

11. As long as she has the knuckledraggers spewing, she's doing it right.

[tinkerbell41]

12. Odd

I thought we were elitists? You know white wine swilling, Country Club going, pointy hat wearing, elitists??
Thank you Michelle.

[poiuytsister]

14. I was laughing so hard I almost choked on my brie and pate de fois gras.

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. Oh, pish, posh

I must share this little tidbit with the domestic help.

[muffin1]

37. How common...

I NEVER talk to my domestic help, except to criticize, of course.

[mnhtnbb]

18. Target is the elite store, y'know, among Mal-Wart and K-mart.

[johnfunk]

13. My only surprise is that the conservative-controlled media is not proclaiming...

... that this is, of course, “great news for Wal-Mart.”

[mnhtnbb]

17. Right. Target and Mal-Wart are one and the same to them.

[Honeycombe8]

16. I can afford to buy my clothes almost anywhere. I get lots of my pants & tees at Target.

As well as nighties, underwear, and an occasional nice work top. (I'm not a dress gal, though. Pantyhose, be gone!)

My favorite purse, a messenger-type bag - got it at Target! (and there's an identical one at the top of my closet, waiting for me when my current one wears out; I got it on a terrific sale!)

Target has some nice stuff!

I have clothes from SteinMart, designer items from Dillards, clothes from Target and other discount places, Burlington's, Macy's....you name it. I defy anyone to tell the difference between the inexpensive and the expensive items. Even the designer items (I love Ralph Lauren! It lasts and lasts and lasts!), I got on a great sale.

A DOLLAR SAVED...ER...YOU KNOW....IS A DOLLAR EARNED! (and that is soooo true!)

[CakeGrrl]

19. You go, Michelle!

I'm beyond tired of the fashion wankers and their "ought to wear this"/"ought not to wear that" attitude. That's an unseemly way to be, especially now.

[Hamlette]

20. MSNBC poll on the shorts: 83% say its fine, 17% say its not appropriate.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32464917

Refreshing to see only 17% agree with that hack at WaPo.

Also, there is book coming out about her style called Mrs. O, the Face of Fashion Democracy.

http://mrs-o.org/newdata/2009/8/19/mrs-o-the-face-of-fa...

I'm gonna take shit when I buy it but I prolly will.

[mnhtnbb]

21. I really like the Mrs. O website.

[saltpoint]

22. Wearing shorts in summertime. That woman will stop at NOTHING.

[mnhtnbb]

23. Enlarged picture of the Target dress here

as well as some links to pictures of her in shorts at the Grand Canyon.

http://mrs-o.org/newdata/2009/8/17/scenes-from-the-week...

She's making a lot of women of a certain age envious of her great tone.

[Hello_Kitty]

25. I have a skirt from Target in the same print.

I'm going to wear it tomorrow!

[Hekate]

27. Dang. The nearest Tar-zhay is 40 miles away.

From me to the FLOTUS: You go, girl.

Hekate

[Justitia]

29. Don't waste a trip, it's from a previous season and is no longer in stores.

So, it's not like she just added this cute dress as a "token" - hee, hee.

Damn, I think it's really cute & I shop there all the time - I was going to look for it.

BTW, got the info from the link about the dress....

[Hekate]

31. No problem. I simply cannot wear what she wears -- totally different body-type...

... plus 20 years. LOL.

Hekate

[Justitia]

32. Me too. I am way shorter & I quit wearing sleeveless decades ago!

And I am just slightly younger - ack!

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[Hippo_Tron]

30. They're just jealous that she can look good in inexpensive clothing

[rpannier]

33. What's amusing to me is...

This story was generated by a reporter, not some political hack.

It caught legs because one reporter covered it so it became a "Media Story."

Another example of why the US media sucks

[harun]

34. It looks good.

[RememberWellstone]

35. Who called her Chewbacca?

And a Wookie? I hope these people get hit by a train!!

It is sickening to hear the vile and filth I have seen on Wingnut boards...she is a beautiful woman. How could they call her these vile names? FO wingnuts, we finally have a real woman in the Whitehouse, not some old, useless hag with war paint on.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

36. Shorts:

[BR_Parkway]

38. Cause 'real mericans' shop at Wal-mart!

They're going to jump from asking for a birth certificate to asking for the cash register receipt!

[XemaSab]

39. She buys off the rack?

She may as well go rummaging in the dumpster behind Goodwill.

[JuniperLea]

40. If it were a designer piece, she'd get smacked down for that too...

I love her. She doesn't need to wear fancy schmancy garb 24/7... clearly she is comfortable with who she is and doesn't need designer duds to make her feel as good as or better than the rest of us.

Refreshing, really.

[backwoodsbob]

41. best part is...

that dress looks 100 times better than most of the crap celebrities wear.She looks good in that

[Iggo]

43. Good. She ain't the queen, ya know.

[donheld]

44. She'd look wonderful in Tarzhay, Versace or anything else.

[fishwax]

45. that's pretty cool

[camera obscura]

47. Who doesn't like Target? Even Ana Sui is doing a line of women's clothing for them

I love Target, I only wish they had more clothes!

[Christa]

48. OMG, did you guys see some of the replies in the OP

in the link?

Sickening.