First Lady Fashion: 3 ladies show up in same $8,500 red dress Laura's wearing

[TexasLawyer]

Dec 6, 2006 8:30 pm US/Eastern
First Lady Fashion Faux Pas: Tale Of 3 Red Dresses

(CBS) WASHINGTON It's always one of the biggest nights in Washington for stars and for glamorous fashion, with guests in the spotlight at an exclusive White House holiday reception. The designer gowns are always scrutinized, and on this year's bash, there was plenty to talk about.

Three women donned the exact same $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta dress, a fashion faux pas in itself. But that's just the beginning of this debacle of ladies in red.

It just so happened that First Lady Laura Bush was wearing the very same dress too.

Letitia Baldridge, Jacqueline Kennedy's Chief of Staff and White House social secretary says the gown was beautiful, but triple the trouble was quite the mess.

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[Raine]

1. This has been a bad day

for the Bushs. :rofl:

[TexasLawyer]

2. The dress

"She went upstairs and changed," Baldridge says. "Very easy for her to do. Very, the right thing to do. Take the heat off the other three women."

The first lady's office said the mid-course correction was a first, and that she and the president found it quite amusing.




I wish someone ELSE would make a mid-course correction!

[evlbstrd]

5. That's a lot of drapes!

[peace13]

10. Notice something about the pictures.

The guests look very dumpy in their pictures but Pickles looks rather trim. Her face is almost elongated. Do you think they gave her photo a little stretch in the official photo? Looks like it to me. Peace, Kim

[Benhurst]

11. Fake picture for a fake "First Lady" and a fake "President."

[JerseygirlCT]

14. She is looking a bit droopy in the chest

wonder if they stretched it and that's the result?

[rocktivity]

23. I think the photos speak for themselves

the bustlines in particular...



:eyes:
headbang

[DearAbby]

31. When I first saw the photo of Pickles with the Chimp

her boobs look like gravity had not been kind. Like she would be knocking her knees with them...But after reading your post...you dont think they would have stretched the photo just a little to make her look thinner, hummm?

[Demit]

16. Laura should put a little more money into her foundation garments.

Her outlook needs a little, shall we say, uplifting.

[KurtNYC]

17. Bad ideas in a room full of repubs is like a head cold in a kindergarten

If one of them gets one, then they all get it.

(and that dress looks like Dracula's casket turned inside out)

[leftchick]

36. omg!

Best Description of Pickle's Apparel EVER!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[neebob]

38. Eight thousand five hundred dollars for THAT?!

And she took it off and will probably never wear it again, and they find that amusing? Why people believe their B.S. about being regular folks continues to be a mystery to me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Not all agree with Letitia Baldridge's judgment...me among them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5914138

[Raine]

8. Yeah, really

they look like big ole ugly drapes. :puke:

[sandnsea]

4. $34,000 for that hideous dress

That's just insane, no four ways about it. Whoda' thunk that many women would have such horrible taste?

[brer cat]

6. So glad that Laura had $8,500 in extra cash

around to pay for that. Jebbie could use a bit of that to pay for some blankets.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2870845

[Radio_Lady]

7. Fashion discussion, eh? Doesn't this belong in the Lounge?

At least, that's what happened to my last fashion discussion last year... about "wearing drapes", etc.

[Pastiche423]

19. Wearing drapes?

[rocktivity]

26. Carol Burnett's spoofs of Gone With The Wind and Double Indemity

are almost enough to make you forgive television for EVERYTHING they've done WRONG.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Fridays Child]

9. Oscar de la Renta must be a genius. Imagine making four dresses...

...out of a single chenille bedspread!

[Me.]

12. Who Are The Other Three?

Anyone know?

[JerseygirlCT]

13. Is it just me, or is that NOT a particularly attractive dress?

Weird that so many were wearing it.

[LisaL]

25. Nope, not just you. I don't find it attractive either.

[Lugnut]

29. I think it's pretty bad

I wouldn't pay $5.00 for that ugly thing.

[CatWoman]

15. *ahem*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2870961

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. A design house like Oscar de la Renta

is supposed to make sure that if they sell or make a dress for the First Lady, that no one else that is anywhere near DC ends up with the same dress.

If I was in her position, that would be the last time I would ever buy one of his dresses.

[NV Whino]

20. No, now wait...

La Renta can't be responsible when someone buys the rejects from the bargain basement.

[ariesgem]

34. It was probably purchased off the rack.

[DoYouEverWonder]

35. Not for $8500

Off the drapery rod is more likely.

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Um, must have been a lot of fabric left over because it's so ugly.

[TlalocW]

22. Dave Barry's wisdom

In a column he pointed out the difference between men and women. When two women show up at a party wearing the same thing, there's bound to be sparks (not the good kind) of some sort. When two guys show up at a party wearing the same thing, chances are they'll be lifelong friends because they thought it was, "cool."

TlalocW

[LisaL]

24. I would not wear that dress for free.

8,500$?

[magellan]

27. How does that even qualify as a dress?

It's a top and skirt, two separate pieces. And I don't normally join in these discussions because I have no fashion sense at all, but I can say without hesitation that that's one UGLY ensemble. And the "dress" is unattractive too.

:evilgrin:

[-..__...]

28. Oh the horrror!

What the hell does this mean?...

"Jacqueline Kennedy, when she was first lady made sure, and her couturiers made sure that nobody else wore that dress that season. "

:silly:

[Bobbie Jo]

30. Remnants from Nancy's Drapes?...n/t

[Nicole]

32. $8,500 for that ugly thing?

I can't imagine anyone wearing it, let alone four women to the same event.

[symbolman]

33. Gee, if they ever

remake THE MUNSTERS, they should give Laura the CAR KILLER, a call..

Actually, what they are wearing is more appropriate for Halloween if you look at it, BLOOD RED to match this Administration. :)

Nice of that designer to sell MANY copies of the same dress as the "first lady"s.. standard republican/corporate think, sell all you can while the selling is HOT, and fuck whatever someone might think, or who might be hurt by it, fashionwise..

Idiots, the whole lot of them, should have been a CIRCUS there, because clowns just don't look right without an elephant in the room, eh?

[donheld]

37. Damn that must have been one hugh set of Drapes

that they could be chopped up into 3 dresses.