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Michelle Obama fashion shocker!

By: Julie Mason
Examiner White House Correspondent
06/10/09 11:51 AM EDT

Your horizontal bands are confusing! (daily mail)

Noted fashion critic Matt Drudge is up in (sleeveless?) arms this morning over first lady Michelle Obama's fashion risk-taking in London! Beltway Confidential concurs!

"LONDON SHOCK FASHION," Drudge declares. "Michelle and the orange snake."

Has the usually fashion-careful first lady gone too far? What are those flowery bands around her midsection? What would Stacy and Clinton say? The Daily Mail breaks it down:

On a visit to Westminster Abbey she wore a trendy colourful tunic embellished with ribbons and fabric flowers.

Teaming the look with a patterned belt the U.S. First Lady made the most of her narrow waist, while smartly referencing eclectic catwalk looks by British designer Christopher Kane.

Worn with dark slim-fitting trousers she topped it off with not one, but two cardigans.

The paper notes that the double-cardigan may be owing to the chilly London weather.

It's Sasha Obama's eighth birthday, and the first lady took the vacationing girls on a tour of Pinewood Studios where the latest Harry Potter film is being made. Sasha and Malia met Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and the rest, then had a party with cast and crew in the set's Great Hall.

Two cardigans?! Deathly hallows!

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Beauty

Jun 10, 2009

What is this ( no fashion woman) thinking? She wears a house cleaning outfit to Westminster Abbey.Someone help her with clothes and respect. Fix you hair woman....

HI HATERS

Jun 10, 2009

STOP HATING! Face it the First Lady can wear two garbage bags and a newspaper hat and she will still look more graceful and poised than you. Don't you get it? You have nothing to talk about on this women so you attack something as small as what she is wearing. She is more beautiful, more prestigeous, more stylish, more carefree, and definitely more smarter than 99.9% of you all. Get over it!

Otown

Jun 10, 2009

"HI HATERS," obviously Michelle IS "more" smarter than you, or should I just say smarter than you.

What a sad day

Jun 10, 2009

January 20, 2009 all class left the White House. I guess we have to put up with this "want to be cool" look for 3.5 years

Gunter MM

Jun 10, 2009

I'm in the business and love the Obama's, but I am not blind, so let's just say that it was not one of her best efforts. Everyone has one of these days where you think you got something going on and it falls flat with others.

JenJ

Jun 10, 2009

Looks like she borrowed her daughters' clothes. What a frump this woman is. Comparing her to Jackie Kennedy is a laugh. Jackie would never have been caught dead looking like this.

Cerise

Jun 11, 2009

Good Lord! Think again! Aweful!

elbebe

Jun 11, 2009

"Narrow" waist. Only because her hips are as wide as a barn!

Jun 12, 2009

wear what you want Michelle

Jun 12, 2009

David Letterman ... where are you?

Sarah

Jun 12, 2009

MIchelle has no class , no sense of style, no regards for her public, doesnt seem to care , go to hell attitude and I cant stand her !!!! There I' ve said IT !!!!!

Sarah

Jun 12, 2009

Michelle Obama couldnt care less what anyone thinks!!!!

gobnait

Jun 12, 2009

One either has grace and a fine sense of style or one does not. THIS ONE DOES NOT.

Jun 12, 2009

It is evident that you all have nothing good to say. So you should not say anything. The woman is on vacation with her daughters and dressed for the occasion.

Jun 12, 2009

Michelle Obama usually looks great, but this outfit is kind of funny, in can't help but laugh way. I hope she loses it on the airplane

didi

Jun 12, 2009

Michelle is way too big and ungraceful to wear anything like this. She looks like a football lineman.

didi

Jun 12, 2009

Michelle is way too big and ungraceful to wear anything like this. She looks like a football lineman.

Hello Haters

Jun 13, 2009

Get over it, you people are not happy with your own lives so you have nothing good to say about other poeple's lives. Michelle looks good and you know it! Get a life, better yet get your OWN life!

Hello Haters

Jun 13, 2009

Get over it, you people are not happy with your own lives so you have nothing good to say about other poeple's lives. Michelle looks good and you know it! Get a life, better yet get your OWN life!

post-mortified

Jun 13, 2009

The outfit is wild and cute - and great for taking the girls to a Harry Potter event or the zoo. But Westminster Abbey? What was she thinking? Is it a total lack of respect for Westminster Abbey and what it represents, or is it possible that totally against her will she was not allowed to change into something more appropriate before entering the Abbey. Sure.

Mon_Kie

Jun 14, 2009

Is she sticking her tongue out in this picture?

lollie

Jun 14, 2009

She is NO Jackie O!! More like O No!! The real Michelle is not pretty like all the libs want to try and make us think, all the photos on magazines are touched up and slimmed down to make her look good.. don't think she is hardly slim, more like Amazon Woman.

rockytown

Jun 14, 2009

I think the Obama's need to fire their advisors. First the gifts were in bad taste, and now the dress. Don't the advisors let them know what the protocol is for foreign visits. They represent the American people and need to get better advisors to help them follow the protocol. Send the bums out!

eve

Jun 14, 2009

Makes her fat behind look even fatter.

eve

Jun 14, 2009

Looks like a cow.

agks

Aug 4, 2009

Have you looked at the American public in Walmart lately? Michelle Obama would fit right in there!

Diva

Aug 10, 2009

Hello, I am a black woman but I am not insecure enough not to admit that her style is terrible, especially for a First Lady. She is so inappropriate , it is embarrassing. She needs help and she needs class.( cannot buy both)

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Michelle Obama fashion shocker!

By: Julie Mason
Examiner White House Correspondent
06/10/09 11:51 AM EDT