There was no method I wasn’t going to like this dress. first of all, I like that color. Secondly, I like Isabel Toledo. (I actually satisfied her — and her great husband — once. She’s even better in person.) Then, when you add in that she is using all that as THE first LADY, well, you can see how one might become a bit overwhelmed.
And then those great gloves! Swoon. [Disclosure: I have a vintage pair in just that color.]
I read a couple of pages of people’s comments on this on the NYT caucus blog, and was dissatisfied that nobody seemed to realize that Michelle Obama does what I advocate everyone should do: she uses what makes her happy. could she have used some tiring royal-blue, be-Spanx-ed sheath, by Oscar de la Renta (no offense, Oscar, but you know what I’m speaking about) and gotten relieved and approving nods from the fashion Commentariat? You know she could. but she obviously likes those gloves: they made her happy, so she used them. WITH a yellow wool lace Isabel Toledo!
The thing is, you can’t please everyone all of the time. You can’t even please many of the people many of the time. Which is why, especially when it concerns clothes, you have to please yourself. You’re the one using them; you’re the one in the pictures; you’re the only one whose happiness is even remotely under your own control: so do what feels right!
I such as this one too, even though it’s not my taste. (In other words, I don’t have a tulle-laden Jason Wu in my wardrobe next to my green gloves.) I do believe it looked great. but even if I didn’t, I’d see that Michelle Obama is equipping it with the only things that really matter: confidence, happiness, and the type of ease that comes from having made one’s own decisions.
And that, my friends, is something that I hope the new first lady brings firmly into fashion.
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