The Trump Women and their Fashion Mishaps - Part Three

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Not a fan of hers, but this a traditional veil that many Catholic women around the world, and especially in Rome, wear to Mass as a show of respect and piety. A generation ago, American women wore these to Mass, too. Jill Biden also wore one

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Not a fan of hers, but this a traditional veil that many Catholic women around the world, and especially in Rome, wear to Mass as a show of respect and piety. A generation ago, American women wore these to Mass, too. Jill Biden also wore one

Pp here: yes, I totally understand that, as I am from a country where that is the widespread practice. I am saying hers looks like a doily. Like a child playing house and pretending to have to dress up for a funeral. Jill Biden’s looked intentional and elegant.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Is that Melanie?! I've been saying for years that their faces are merging - she really looks like Donald in drag here.

I LOVE THIS FOR HER.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Is that Melanie?! I've been saying for years that their faces are merging - she really looks like Donald in drag here.

I LOVE THIS FOR HER.

ha!

She could have done the vail better. Maybe a headbandish thing or something like this crossed in the front under her neck? Also, God's sun "smiled" down on poor Mel.

https://www.mariaveils.com/products/copy-of-navy-blue-lace-veil

PS: That links to a website where some young woman sells crazy a$$ Catholic vails now, in 2025!

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Is that Melanie?! I've been saying for years that their faces are merging - she really looks like Donald in drag here.

I LOVE THIS FOR HER.

ha!

She could have done the vail better. Maybe a headbandish thing or something like this crossed in the front under her neck? Also, God's sun "smiled" down on poor Mel.

https://www.mariaveils.com/products/copy-of-navy-blue-lace-veil

PS: That links to a website where some young woman sells crazy a$$ Catholic vails now, in 2025!

I am the poster calling Melania’s a doily and thank you for illustrating my point. The ones on the page you posted are beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyway, getting back to the fashion. I can't find a picture of this outfit, only video. This is one of her better looks: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ndtv-exclusive-usha-vances-return-to-roots-on-india-visit-8227128

I'm sorry but this is a terrible outfit - those shoes are so unflattering, the shirt is too tight and looks absurd with that flitty skirt. And her hair looks terrible.

Agreed. Next time can we request JD takes Ivanka with him? She knows how to dress the part! Usha could have borrowed her outfit from the Ambani wedding?!

At risk of sounding like a clueless white woman, I wonder why she didn't choose to wear more Indian outfits? When she stepped off the plane in Solani (Indian-British designer) I was hopeful she would lean into theme dressing for the week. Even in that pic, she's dressed like the world's most mediocre midlevel bank manager and the interviewer is in a sari, so a sari wouldn't have been inappropriate.

I'm Indian-American and I am right there with you!! And the crazy thing is that they've been dressing their children in Indian clothes. They are far better dressed than her. She doesn't even need to be in a sari, she could wear something like her daughter is wearing (except obviously a longer top).

It's very deliberate. Other than the occasional Indian designer, she doesn't wear anything that calls back to India at all.

I'd assume that this is to appease or keep the ultra right wing quiet. You can't be anti-DEI and have your wife out frolicking in a sari and celebrating her heritage.

Re: Celebrating her heritage.

A clip of that interview came up on my Instagram last night. I was shocked to learn this is JD's first time in India. Haven't they been married for like 10, closer to 15 years? And in that whole time they've never been to India together? She did say they read the kids Indian epics and JD sometimes makes Indian food, but idk. I don't think she's loud and proud about her heritage.

I've been married 15 years and my husband and I have never been to India together. My parents and their entire families live in the US. If your parents moved from Wichita to New England, and your grandparents were all dead would you have reason to go back to Wichita??

I don't think that's quite the same. Moving from Wichita to New England is still American culture, albeit with regional differences.

You are missing the point. It’s not about culture. It’s about visiting family. I have a ton of foreign cousins that because my parents were just squeaking by, we visited twice when I was growing up and I have seen once since then. I’ve met this part of my family three times, I just don’t have much of a connection to them. Why would I take my husband to visit them when we have limited vacation time and the rest of my family (including one entire side of my family that lives in the US) is here?

Also, most Americans I know are not at all close to their extended families, so that makes your argument a little more laughable to me.

Can anyone convince me that Usha is not on this thread replying directly?! Honestly, because it’s not a vacation, they are politicians. And most of the Americans I know who are not close to extended family are white; my SE Asian, S Asian, African and Black friends and coworkers are.

DP, I could have written the first paragraph you are replying to and I am South Asian. I figured it would get deleted as off topic or someone like you would start talking about how Usha’s friends post here (and now Usha) because you don’t care whether your dig is accurate. You just need new and varied ways to hate on her. Her husband is giving us plenty. Not sure you need to make stuff up.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyway, getting back to the fashion. I can't find a picture of this outfit, only video. This is one of her better looks: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ndtv-exclusive-usha-vances-return-to-roots-on-india-visit-8227128

I'm sorry but this is a terrible outfit - those shoes are so unflattering, the shirt is too tight and looks absurd with that flitty skirt. And her hair looks terrible.

Agreed. Next time can we request JD takes Ivanka with him? She knows how to dress the part! Usha could have borrowed her outfit from the Ambani wedding?!

At risk of sounding like a clueless white woman, I wonder why she didn't choose to wear more Indian outfits? When she stepped off the plane in Solani (Indian-British designer) I was hopeful she would lean into theme dressing for the week. Even in that pic, she's dressed like the world's most mediocre midlevel bank manager and the interviewer is in a sari, so a sari wouldn't have been inappropriate.

I'm Indian-American and I am right there with you!! And the crazy thing is that they've been dressing their children in Indian clothes. They are far better dressed than her. She doesn't even need to be in a sari, she could wear something like her daughter is wearing (except obviously a longer top).

I'm of the opinion that Vance would be really pissed if Usha upstaged him because of her clothing like Jackie K. did with Kennedy.
Little American wifey is exactly what he wants so no ethnic clothes for her.

I think she looks nice here, gd help us. But whoever said the daughter's outfit is better is correct.

The loafers are not good. Why not a pair of simple ballet flats?

If she had worn ballet flats, you would have mocked her for wearing them and insisted that white loafers would have been better.

White loafers would never be better. Not those, not on her.

The dress was nice and ballet flats would have easy and completed the picture. The white loafers are terrible.
It’s like the time she wear that terrible taupe sweater with the army green winter coats to Greenland. A simple black turtleneck would have been so much better

She had to wear taupe with the army green coat because they were doing military cosplay in Greenland, either to kiss up to the military base, or to frighten the poor Greenlanders. It was really obvious and really weird.
I like the blue dress a lot in the seated picture, but don't love it in the walking picture. I would like it more if the skirt was just one piece of fabric. It has that second skirt flounce that was really popular a year or two ago and which I think is really unflattering and I am beyond sick of. I like how the stripes angle in on the top though, that's very flattering. I think loafers with a dress is a weird choice. I have bad feet and need arch support, but they do sell ballet flats with arch support, or a nice walking sandal. Even little white or denim sneakers would be better. I wonder if when she packs, she lays out all the outfits together. It looks like she forgot to pack shoes to go with that dress.

I’m imagining the conniption fits this crowd would have had if she had actually worn “denim sneakers.” She looked polished, pretty, and appropriate as is.

She looked bland, boring, and those shoes are atrocious. She didn’t look BAD but she just looked like a regular 40 year old tourist with her kids. I would expect more from someone representing our country in the country of her family’s heritage. It doesn’t need to be Indian clothes at all but she should have expected millions of eyes on her during her visit and dressed accordingly. She absolutely doesn’t look polished, she looks average when she needs to look above average.

The PP nails it. Bland, boring, like an average tourist. She looks average when she needs to look above average. Like it or not her job now is to look good.

Laura Bush was bland and boring. Karen Pence too. Tipper Gore, Lynne Cheney. Boring and bland is the standard

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Eek!

The heavy makeup is making her look really harsh and old here. Even the eyebrows look overdone. Especially for a day event.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Is that Melanie?! I've been saying for years that their faces are merging - she really looks like Donald in drag here.

I LOVE THIS FOR HER.

ha!

She could have done the vail better. Maybe a headbandish thing or something like this crossed in the front under her neck? Also, God's sun "smiled" down on poor Mel.

https://www.mariaveils.com/products/copy-of-navy-blue-lace-veil

PS: That links to a website where some young woman sells crazy a$$ Catholic vails now, in 2025!

I am the poster calling Melania’s a doily and thank you for illustrating my point. The ones on the page you posted are beautiful.

She did something similar for the visit to the pope in the last administration. A very severe take on the mantilla. It reminds me of Sophia Loren in her 70s or 80s playing an Italian widow. Also, with her hair covered it really accentuates how much she is again. Normally her hair pulls the eye away.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

She is Catholic and grew up next to Italy. That is what women in that region wear to go to church. A longer one would have been better, though.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

She is Catholic and grew up next to Italy. That is what women in that region wear to go to church. A longer one would have been better, though.

I will defer to all of you on when she could have found a better mantilla, but I kind of struck by her composure in the picture. She does look like she’s upset about the pope.

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I just can’t. She looks like she grabbed a doily last minute and threw it over her head.

Is that Melanie?! I've been saying for years that their faces are merging - she really looks like Donald in drag here.

I LOVE THIS FOR HER.

👏👏👏 I have noticed this for several years but it’s VERY obvious here.

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At this point it’s like - is there anywhere she won’t wear a coat?
More photos here https://wwd.com/eye/people/gallery/pope-francis-funeral-guests-melania-trump-jill-biden-photos-1237104914/funeral-takes-place-for-pope-francis-8/

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It seems Melania is only trying to avoid people commenting on her clothes, jewelry and body shape. Who needs constant judgement? Usha clearly doesn't give a damn to her criticism otherwise she too should find a way to portray the message of having a boundary like Melania.