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Usha Vance - Fashion Thread
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Anonymous
| She looked terrible. That pink coat was enormous on her and just odd. The gloves looked bad. Her hair is awful. That prom dress blew. She is young and she needs to step it up significantly. She’s way too small to wear those big statement things. |
Anonymous
I'm guessing most of her friends are nerdy lawyers like her and this would explain why her clothes are pretty meh. Get a stylist, girl! You don't have to go high fashion but people are going to be taking your photograph continuously for four years. Find someone who will put together a system for you that works for most events and then will create evening looks for you when you need one. And I think you need to start from scratch on your hair -- get a lob and a deep condition, start scheduling monthly trims to keep it in shape, follow directions regarding washing and drying. This isn't about vanity. This is the job she signed on for. |
Anonymous
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They weren’t even meh, they were actually very bad on her objectively. Nobody gives AF if that coat was hand stitched by the pope, as the saying goes, it was god awful on her. Huge, messy, and way too pink and her hair is just awful. She needs to get a treatment every week. |
Anonymous
Michelle was wearing wigs. Remember the heavy bangs? |
Anonymous
Here she is at the National Prayer Service this morning and I am totally baffled:
She somehow keeps wearing clothes that attract attention while also being weird and ill-fitting. Is this satin? White satin? On a Tuesday morning in January? When it is 10 degrees outside? Wut. I honestly think she'd do better at this point just buying like a full system from Theory or MM La Fleur or something -- everything in the same three colors, mix and match, same shoes and coat with everything. Her trying to create bespoke looks for different events is a disaster and she'll never be able to keep up. She's in so far over her head. |
Anonymous
Ugh it’s awful and huge too. She has to stop. Totally agree, just go get a stylist. This is the definition of the clothes wearing you. All you can see is that coat and this shirt. Can’t even see her. |
Anonymous
She didn't have a lifestyle where fashion made sense or mattered much before Obama's presidential run, which she originally did not think was going to last. Yes she invested in creating a look and hired people and put a lot of effort in. But she also held back. She followed the advice of advisors and also paid attention to the press and was hyper-aware of being the first black First Lady and the extra pressure that came with. She wore a lot of styles during her WH years that in retrospect did not reflect her personality at all -- all the dresses with the a-line skirts and the J Crew separates in solid colors. She was doing WH/Washington drag and it was intentional. Since leaving the White House she is way more experimental, wears wilder prints, wears her hair in braids and with extensions, experiments with accessories, etc. I think she would have done all of that in her 40s/early 50s had she not been First Lady. Once her kids were no longer really young and when they started to have real money and fame? She would not have been wearing demure midi skirts with matching pumps and twin sets. That was a show she put on to convince people she was non-threatening. Literally every time she exposed her upper arms in public, people would lose their minds, so she spent most of those years suppressing her style tendencies and trying to cover up/frumpify. I think the vast majority of her clothes as First Lady were a political compromise for her (the bright colors, experimental designers were for her, the conservative cuts and heavy does of classic femininity were for everyone else). |
Anonymous
People get real weird about Black Women’s hair. Things have changed since she first went into office, but straight hair was seen as the most conservative and professional look at that time. |
Anonymous
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Call me crazy but I like the white blouse or dress. It doesn’t really seem to make sense for this prayer service in this weather.
As a Catholic married to a non-Catholic, I am wildly curious about their religious life. I assume he goes to mass weekly. Where? Will he start going to St. Matts? The new cardinal is, I would think, not to his liking so perhaps he will come up to bethesda to go with the kavanaughts or out to Virginia? Does she go to mass with him? Do the kids? Will they go to CCD? Usually these compromises are worked out before the marriage and kids but he converted after all that so I am intensely curious how she’s navigating all that. Wearing white to prayer services and wreath laying….iis that a quiet assertion of the fact that she’s still Hindu? |
Anonymous
Exactly this. |
Anonymous
+1, and it hasn't changed that much (Trump 2.0 being a case in point). If Michelle had shown up in the White House with braids or cornrows, people would have lost their minds. These are the same people who claimed Obama was disrespecting the office when he wore a tan suit. A lower level politician can get away with wearing natural or protective black hairstyles, but Michelle was on the biggest stage and had the disadvantage of not being elected -- she was in a figurehead role only where she could lean back on an election or a voter base. She really had to to conform to expectations and not impose too much of her own will on anything, and she knew it. That was why she got on board with a stylist very early on and put in a lot of effort. She knew the criticism would blow back on Barack and she didn't want to be an obstacle. The dynamic is different with Usha and Vance because he is white and they are conservative. Also she's Indian American, not black, so no one is going to call her "ghetto" for wearing her hair in its natural state or exposing her upper arms. She can get away with more. Michelle had zero leeway from the jump. |
Anonymous
Nah. She lacks style and style sense. She thinks a silk dress is what one wears to "something important," but anyone who has been in a big cathedral knows they are poorly heated, so a wool dress or a wool suit makes the most sense. |
Anonymous
It's pretty fascinating. If the white clothing choices are a reflection of her practicing Hinduism, it's going to force these issues out into the open because the white in these settings is very eye-catching. His conversion to Catholicism is already pretty weird and then throw in that she's non-Christian and they have three kids... they are going to get a TON of questions about this. Especially if, like Pence, Vance becomes the figurehead for Christianity in an administration where quite obviously most of these people have no actual religious faith. |
Anonymous
Kavanaughs don't go to Bethesda for mass. Vance kids were already in Catholic school which I would assume they would continue to do. If that is the case they don't do CCD. |
Anonymous
She’s 39 and she looks around 59, so no, not really. She needs some help. |