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

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I might be able to pull off that yellow if I got a tan. That's one of those hit or miss colors on me. As opposed to orange which is a pretty sure bet for looking good or hot pink which always makes me look very very ill.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would never have categorized you as Really Pale, so go for it or not as you see fit. The loss of hot pink doesn't grieve me in particular on my own behalf, so I hope it doesn't you, either.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

True. I missed the "really pale" part of the post. The loss of hot pink doesn't grieve me any longer, but when I was about five it was a major hot-button bone of contention between myself and my mom.