deep thoughts about the future of this administration

[mrissa]

Okay, fellow Really Pale Femmey Women! I think we need a preemptive writing on the blackboard exercise. Fifty times each:

"Just because Michelle Obama can wear that color does not mean I can wear that color."

We are going to need it this administration. Our new First Lady is veryvery good at dressing herself, not some idealized person on whom all trends look good, even the contradictory ones. And that is the lesson we need to learn from her clothes, not, "Ooh, she looks so pretty, I should wear exactly what she's wearing!"

Because she looks lovely, and we would look like three-month-old lutefisk in some of these colors.

Seriously. We need to take deep breaths and repeat, "Not every color is for every person, and that's okay."

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Orange is one of the ones I got. If it's not pale enough to really be peach, I can wear it well.

Which sometimes results in, "Huh...that dress/shirt is really ugly...but you look really good in it, oddly enough."

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I can testify to your awesomeness in your orange dress. (Still waiting for those hot jeans photos. ;-))

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Turn down the lech-o-matic just a hair there, please.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

No offense intended, only respectful compliments (and still hoping my wife, son and I can host you all for a dinner should life take you to Brooklyn).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If I doubted your intent, you would have gotten the verbal smackdown instead of the polite request.