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

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

Often enough that it's a time saver to start with that person's coloring. And yeah, it's usually not a man coming in alone, unless he's single. If a couple comes in together, she goes with the coloring of the woman, because they tend to be the decision makers, with the men having veto power. But when she talks about seeing people I knew in high school, she usually identifies the woman as having come in the store.

I don't think she has a script for dealing with same-sex couples since they're pretty rare out there but my guess is that she would probably work with whoever engaged her first.

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

My grandfather decorated their house to go with my grandmother's carrot-red hair: many greens, cream, lavender, burnt orange, brown.