The Trump Women and their Fashion Mishaps - Part Three

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t quite tell but I suspect that Melania is wearing pants to tonight’s Congressional ball at the White House.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/the-president-and-first-lady-attends-the-congressional-ball/

yes, she wore pants.

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Blouse detail.

The all black she's doing (dress from the event last week) I don't really like. But she is consistent--no actual color when she's in the White House.

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Goodness. According to Wh press pool, the party-goers were wearing ball gowns. So rude to show up in pants. She really is angry with her situation. She brought dozy Don down the stairs to wave and then took him back up to bed after a few minutes. Probably wasn’t worth the aggravation to get a gown on.

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Blouse detail.

The all black she's doing (dress from the event last week) I don't really like. But she is consistent--no actual color when she's in the White House.

He’s dying. She’s ready with the outfits.

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Blouse detail.

The all black she's doing (dress from the event last week) I don't really like. But she is consistent--no actual color when she's in the White House.

He’s dying. She’s ready with the outfits.

She better wear that purple exploded Frisbee hat!

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness. According to Wh press pool, the party-goers were wearing ball gowns. So rude to show up in pants. She really is angry with her situation. She brought dozy Don down the stairs to wave and then took him back up to bed after a few minutes. Probably wasn’t worth the aggravation to get a gown on.

I think formal pants are fine when others are wearing ball gowns. Both she and Hillary Clinton have done that look before. But this doesn't appear to be that. I agree with you and the other posters that suggested that this looks like she is not in the "black tie party" mood, and is instead in the "control the potential damage from my husband's declining medical state" mood. For which one wears something practical and comfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

I didn't take the comment you were replying to as implying there was anything wrong with her having one coat. I took it to mean she grew up in a communist country and likely wouldn't have had the wardrobe of an American teen. I know her parents were educated and had good jobs but they were still living under communism.

Would she have even had access to United Colors of Benetton? I don't know much about communist Slovenia but I imagine it was like Russia and there was a ban on imported goods.

I was a bit of a Sovietologist decades ago when that was a thing. Yugoslavia had access to more western goods because it wasn’t behind the iron curtain but I’d be surprised if it was the same as living in Austria or Italy. In general communist countries tend to have more closed economies because they are state controlled with different attitudes toward import/export. Anyway, it would be super interesting to have articles about that in particular — it’s sort of crazy we’ve had this First Lady for 5 years and know so little about her background and childhood. If anyone reading this is from Yugoslavia. I’d love to know about fashion options in 1980s Yugoslavia!!!

I'm from there, Melania's age and similar background (although my parents were not communists) and that was my comment about a Benetton coat.
With her being from a well situated family and only 2 hrs drive from Trieste, Italy, a very popular town for shopping at the time, I can pretty accurately say that she was dressed as good as an American teenager, if not better. Slovenia was officially the most developed part of Yugoslavia, their women were stylish and weekend trips to Austria or Italy were common. Also, the garment industry in Yugoslavia was pretty solid, with Slovenia having some amazing brands and covering production for Adidas (70's and 80's Adidas made in Slovenia or Yugoslavia are currently gold in vintage market, especially in Japan). I think Melania's always been deliberate about how she dresses, and that most probably started in her childhood in former Yugoslavia.

Very cool, thanks for sharing! I actually didn't realize until this thread that Yugoslavia wasn't part of the USSR*, so I expected her childhood to be much more spartan than what the GQ profile and your post describe.

*I am sure I learned that in European history in tenth grade but I was born after the Berlin Wall fell so it's not like something I would remember and to be perfectly honest I don't think about Yugoslavia frequently lol.

God that poster made me feel old. I for one remember when the Olympics were in Sarajevo. Yugoslavia wasn’t just part of the USSR—it wasn’t even part of the Warsaw bloc. It was sort of “softly” in the Soviet influence sphere because Tito had basically a deal with the soviets. I think Yugoslavia actually had a lot of spy activity and smuggling activity because it was one of the few entry points behind the iron Curtain. (Others were through the tunnels under Berlin or maybe Syria).

? That is not true, Tito has no deal with the Soviets. He broke away from Stalin in 1948, and the Yugoslavs strongly disliked the Warsaw Pact system and USSR. Many citizens of Warsaw Pact countries could only travel to Yugoslavia, and that is how they escaped to the West.

Sorry -- was unclear. The Tito-Stalin pact immediately after WW2 allowed Yugoslavia to sort of set its own way, which set it up for a more independent nation-state so it didn't end up like Hungary (invaded in 1956 when it tried to assert freedom) or Czechoslavakia (1968, same thing). Along with other things particular to Yugoslavia, like the terrain. Anyway, Yugoslavia was really interestingly situated during the Cold War, with lots of interesting things going on there (like your example of Warsaw Pact citizens using Yugolsavia as the first step to defect) -- I think it was also how samizdat was smuggled in/out. It was the gateway to the most permeable part of the Iron Curtain.
Anyway -- thank you to all the former Yugoslavs posting info about fashion and shopping in the 1980s and 1990s -- so interesting!!! And does help paint a picture of where the First Lady's roots lie.

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Blouse detail.

The all black she's doing (dress from the event last week) I don't really like. But she is consistent--no actual color when she's in the White House.

Wow her face looks so much better. It barely looks like her. How did she get rid of the overly pulled eyes? I thought you couldn’t really reverse that? It was clearly much more than fillers

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Why is it so hard to get a shot of this entire woman?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it so hard to get a shot of this entire woman?

Wow. I have been one of her biggest haters in this thread but she's really stepping it up lately. Which makes me think she's anxious there's some truth to the Erika Kirk rumors but whatever. Love the dress.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it so hard to get a shot of this entire woman?

Love that she went with an Indian-owned brand.

Hopefully JD wore a clean shirt to this black tie event.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it so hard to get a shot of this entire woman?

Love that she went with an Indian-owned brand.

Hopefully JD wore a clean shirt to this black tie event.

I hate these twitter posts, because you get to see very little of how the actual person is wearing the dress, fit, etc

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it so hard to get a shot of this entire woman?

Love that she went with an Indian-owned brand.

Hopefully JD wore a clean shirt to this black tie event.

Exactly!
Did you put a clean shirt on, JD? Good job. We’re proud of you!!!

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Blouse detail.

The all black she's doing (dress from the event last week) I don't really like. But she is consistent--no actual color when she's in the White House.

Wow, she looks fantastic here. I love the lace blouse and black looks so good on her. Sets her hair off beautifully.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness. According to Wh press pool, the party-goers were wearing ball gowns. So rude to show up in pants. She really is angry with her situation. She brought dozy Don down the stairs to wave and then took him back up to bed after a few minutes. Probably wasn’t worth the aggravation to get a gown on.

Looks like she's wearing a women's tuxedo look. Very elegant and chic.