Usha Vance - Fashion Thread

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Anonymous wrote:None of you have the figure to pull this off so that is probably why you are spewing. Atrapless not age appropriate for her though. She is a smart cookie so don’t care much about her looks.

Please. It’s 2025. Most people
With resources have a good BMI, work out and look as good if not better than this figure wise. That’s not at all the issue even if you think it’s a great retort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cue the downplays and the naysayers. It's their second job now, and they are in it to win it.

Doesn't change what it is, though. You can shout down and insult posters here if you want, but people all over are still talking about it. A better use of the energy is just to get a stylist for formal appearances and do better.

All this frantic defense to make her feel better just makes her look more out of place and thin-skinned. Sad.

Yep. No excuses for looking unpolished and messy.

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Anonymous wrote:The greys need to go though no just no!

I disagree. Her hair color is fine and can be an inspiration to other women. It's okay to be grey.

[Anonymous]

She needs to reconsider her color choices (wrong shade of pink, cream would be better than white, black over camel, navy washers her out completely) focus on tailoring (her clothes are ill fitting and thereby not flattering for her figure) and refine her style with an emphasis on clean lines and simplicity. A complete overhaul of her shoe selection is also in order.

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Anonymous wrote:Cue the downplays and the naysayers. It's their second job now, and they are in it to win it.

Doesn't change what it is, though. You can shout down and insult posters here if you want, but people all over are still talking about it. A better use of the energy is just to get a stylist for formal appearances and do better.

All this frantic defense to make her feel better just makes her look more out of place and thin-skinned. Sad.

Yep. No excuses for looking unpolished and messy.

VPOTUS' wife is a job. She's not on the clock 24/7, but at formal events, it's work.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad that on the White House bios page, there are head shots of Trump, Melania, and JD, but the photo of Usha is an AP photo taken from the Republican National Convention. That's how much of a rookie/unprepared she is for her role, she doesn't even have a headshot for the White House website.

She does indeed have a headshot on that page.

I know people were talking about how old she looks earlier, and I actually disagreed with them until now - up until now I thought she looked like she was in her late 30s, but in this picture she looks like a youthful 50 year old (she actually looks a lot like my sister, but my sister highlights her hair to get rid of the grays).

Yes, I’m not sure why she looks so old - most of my south Asian friends look so young - but she does.

It's the color.

As a south Asian, I find it very trying to choose just the right color when I'm using neutrals. It has to work with your undertones. If you hit it, you look smashing. Just the tiniest bit off and it's awful. This is not the color for her.

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I wonder how long it will take before her friends that peruse this board tell her she needs a new headshot. I am confident that I am the reason the first one was replaced with a real headshot so quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad that on the White House bios page, there are head shots of Trump, Melania, and JD, but the photo of Usha is an AP photo taken from the Republican National Convention. That's how much of a rookie/unprepared she is for her role, she doesn't even have a headshot for the White House website.

She does indeed have a headshot on that page.

I know people were talking about how old she looks earlier, and I actually disagreed with them until now - up until now I thought she looked like she was in her late 30s, but in this picture she looks like a youthful 50 year old (she actually looks a lot like my sister, but my sister highlights her hair to get rid of the grays).

Yes, I’m not sure why she looks so old - most of my south Asian friends look so young - but she does.

It's the color.

As a south Asian, I find it very trying to choose just the right color when I'm using neutrals. It has to work with your undertones. If you hit it, you look smashing. Just the tiniest bit off and it's awful. This is not the color for her.

+1 If it was maybe a redder toned brown, maybe a sepia? I don't look in camel or beige either, I get it. I look better in bright colors - jewel tones, even a mustard yellow or olive green. She would have looked great in a brighter pink. Cream instead of white.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad that on the White House bios page, there are head shots of Trump, Melania, and JD, but the photo of Usha is an AP photo taken from the Republican National Convention. That's how much of a rookie/unprepared she is for her role, she doesn't even have a headshot for the White House website.

She does indeed have a headshot on that page.

The single point of interest this dress/outfit has are those seams. That's it. So, with that being the focal point, you'd think someone would've cared enough about the one detail the dress had to pay attention to making sure it was correct.

My god. I would never in a million years have even noticed her seams. Never. Consider that this could be a you problem. It’s a great picture of her.
DP

Why are you in a fashion forum if you can't notice details in the cut of a garment? You seem lost, love. Maybe piss off to the gardening forum next time?

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I'd never be jumping on someone in their private life for not attending to the details -- straight seams, good fit, unscuffed shoes. I mean, don't be going out in your bra and parachute pants to direct traffic, but you know -- clean, covering everything, and functional. That;s fine.

But campaign events are job events. Official headshots are work-related. Formal State affairs are due some time and effort. And *none* of this came as a complete surprise to anyone in this country, not since the November election. This wasn't like someone received the invitation yesterday, on their way home from work.

Exactly. Public life = public scrutiny. If you're not ready for that, don't whine when the feedback you get says you don't look ready.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad that on the White House bios page, there are head shots of Trump, Melania, and JD, but the photo of Usha is an AP photo taken from the Republican National Convention. That's how much of a rookie/unprepared she is for her role, she doesn't even have a headshot for the White House website.

She does indeed have a headshot on that page.

Who keeps doing this poor woman this dirty?! I dislike her politics, and her husband, and probably most other things about her, but I'm offended on her behalf that nobody helps her dress for the role she's in. She looks like someone gave the AI the prompt "pull a book from the background and make it Usha Vance". The seams are crooked, the cut is as boring and plain as possible, the color is useless...

Like her or not, this is our VP's wife. She should at least get the kind of care and attention befitting her station for a single public photo! If someone spent half the time dressing Usha that they spent retouching Melania's photo, it'd be fine.

agree. I"m 51 and more or less look like this. We should not wear color so close to our actual skin tone. Why not blue blazer/white shirt if this is the best they can do for her? Also, her lip color is fantastic. She'd look great in most of the reds / wine colors. Also many of the blues/ deeper purples. And jewl tones. And why did the fotog not say "straighten your dress". FFS.

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^^ she is really very attractive. I love that I can see her eyes and her smile looks real. Like she cares.

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She has significant melasma or just pigmentation issues. She needs to adddress it because it makes her look muddy and older. There are lots of treatments available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of you have the figure to pull this off so that is probably why you are spewing. Atrapless not age appropriate for her though. She is a smart cookie so don’t care much about her looks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She needs to reconsider her color choices (wrong shade of pink, cream would be better than white, black over camel, navy washers her out completely) focus on tailoring (her clothes are ill fitting and thereby not flattering for her figure) and refine her style with an emphasis on clean lines and simplicity. A complete overhaul of her shoe selection is also in order.

I think that outfit was cream, or at least appeared cream on my screen, and while I liked it, it was not her color.

I do think Usha is probably a "winter" given how nice she looked in the royal blue dress when she introduced JD at the RNC and the plum dress at the Ohio State Society Ball. She also looks nice in bright white and black, two colors only winters can pull off. I actually liked the pink coat but the muted color washed her out. The camel in the headshot is so not for her (more on that in a sec) and they did her dirty with that lipstick. At least on my screen it looks muted 90s brick red - they should've gone slightly brighter and cooler.

My theory that I said to DH last night when I was telling him the drama of this thread - someone on her husband's new staff was like, "Oh, shit, we gotta get a headshot of Usha," went to Nordstrom or Bloomingdale's and grabbed some things, and was like, "Um, here, this camel jacket is a professional color." Whoever did this does not have experience styling women of color. And since Usha doesn't seem to care about fashion, she likely also does not have experience styling women of color.

One thing that would help, as cheesy as it is, is a color analysis. I had one done just for fun, but I think it would be useful to her since she's about to be photographed significantly more than I am. It's one thing to wear the wrong color in the office and no one cares, it's another to wear the wrong color during a photo where the bight lighting and flash highlight it more. That would also help with the makeup - the headshot is like the second or third time they've put her in 90s lipstick. And I do think she needs concealer and blush. They basically sent her on stage at the RNC with mascara and lipstick and even as pretty as the blue was on her, she looked a little washed out (understandably so because she had giant spotlights beaming down on her)

I do think she looks closer to 50 than 40. I don't even think she needs lasers? She doesn't really have lines, just melasma (which is common in pregnancy for women of color, and she has three kids) which tretinoin would help. Although idk, starting tretinoin when you're not in the public eye is awful with all the dryness and purging, so maybe not. Personally I think she needs to dye the grays but someone upthread said that gray hair comes in a different texture for South Asian women and it's a pain.