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

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky enough to be able to wear a pretty wide variety of colors, but yellow is the major exception. I *might* be able to pull off that pale gold without looking horrible, but it would definitely be suboptimal.

(I wince whenever I reread Pat of Silver Bush or Mistress Pat and Montgomery talks about how she looks like a 'paler and browner' (???) in green, but flower in yellow - Pat has more or less my coloring. But then those books make me wince for a lot of reasons. Don't know why I do reread them.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Pat books have a bad crazy. Sad but true.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they have a girl in love with a house. That's not something you see every day.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I *like* change. So I always end up swearing at Pat a lot.