I'm still the fashion police

A lot has changed since Trump won in 2016. He knew the deep state was a problem, but only now sees how deep and murky politics really is. He knows now it's much more cutthroat than business or entertainment, but loyalty and deals are still his strength. Ordinary words have flipped, and Democrats seized words like "democracy" and "woman" and stomped on and shredded them. In my opinion, Melania and Barron are hardly recognizable. She's dressing like a librarian, or the wardrobe we used to wear 30 years ago--gray suits, sensible shoes, subdued and blending in. Barron looks like he's grown about a foot and now towers above both parents and all his siblings Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany. Last I read he was 6'9" and still growing and advised his dad about the younger voters.

Can you be fashionable in jeans?

 No use crying over old fashions and modesty that will never return, but it was so much easier to be attractive when we only wore jeans for cleaning house or picnics or playing softball. I assume this is an ad to encourage larger women to buy more jeans. Notice anything? All these women are gorgeous, young and well proportioned with long hair and beautiful skin. That leaves out about 3/4 of the female population. It's marketing--always remember that. It says, if you buy me, you too can look good, just like the ads with the skinny waifs. Nothing wrong with that as long as you understand the game.

Go to any workplace--choose the cafeteria so you don't know who works where.  Notice the difference in the clothing of the men and women.  Men will always look better dressed and more professional in khakis and a sport shirt than women dressed the same way.  And in jeans, there's just no contest. Dress for the job you want.

 
















 
I googled "career clothes large women," and found a few suggestions, all feminine and professional without looking slutty, but if you google "fashion large women" the images are just awful.

    

Dinner attire at Downton

Today we’d be lucky if they just pulled up their jeans, covered the butt-crack  and took off the baseball cap.

We got an eyeful at the coffee shop

We all stared as she walked by at the coffee shop. She was over 6' tall. She wore high heels. Blonde hair in a pony tail. But the dress was a tight sheath, with short sleeves and the hem was just about at the knees. “Very revealing,” I thought. Then thought again. We all wore that look in the late 50s, early 60s.

                 

Shades of the 60s!

I remember seeing these tight, patterned pants on campus when I was in college.  Although I think they wore socks.

I guess it’s in again.  Ah, the bold, strong American male.

http://www.zegna.com/us/home.html

Ermengildo Zegna.

Prom dress code

I was a bit surprised to see this in a prom dress code (Utah?) in 2012:

"Strapless dresses are prohibited unless a jacket or shawl is worn. 'Plunging' necklines are prohibited. The backs of dresses should not show more than 1/3 of the back (directly below the armpits)."

Have they looked at a Bride's Magazine lately? Or at a 1956 prom photo?

Junior Prom, May 1956, Mt. Morris, Illinois

I was hoping this was an April Fool joke

But it wasn’t.  A First Lady of the United States actually wore this in public.

Inappropriate cleavage in the workplace

I had an eye popping experience at the city building last week. A female employee with 4 inches of cleavage and low cut t-shirt was sitting in a chair waiting on people who were standing behind the counter looking down practically to her navel. The African man next to me, probably a Muslim, finally went out to wait in the hall for his wife who was talking to the buxom employee rather than violate her with his eyes. Cover up ladies. You look ridiculous. I was embarrassed for her and our culture which creates such exhibitionism and then whines about sexism and women disrespected on the job. Save it for a party or the special man in your life. Any guy you attract dressed like that probably isn't going to be a good catch.

The way we dress has a huge effect on the way we perceive ourselves, and on the way we're perceived. Sadly, the two don't always match up.

My star candidate in the sexy dress, for example, may have looked in her mirror that morning and seen 'confident, individual, fashionable'. I saw 'bimbo, trying too hard, someone who doesn't have the sense to dress for the context in which she's going to be seen'.
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The other female employee in the front office was wearing faded jeans and a hoody sweatshirt. She looked ready to go out and cheer on her grandchildren's soccer team, but at least she was covered up.

Why I'll never be a fashionista

Kate Bosworth as seen at The Adorned Precedent. Everything I have that looks like this has been stuffed in the back of the rag bag for years. I've seen 2 years olds with better fashion sense. But I'm a librarian. What do we know about fashion?

Why do women let gay designers dress them like sexless rag dolls?

Not sure but I think this is Dree Hemingway. It certainly does nothing for the dress. That looks like a toilet stall pose by a woman who's had too much to drink. Is that toilet paper in her hand or a diploma?

Reed Krakoff set to hit fashion big-time after Michelle Obama carries $1,000 tote (and despite the price it's already sold out)

If a story looks really ridiculous, I run it through Snopes. I know. I know. Conservatives don't like this fact checking website because they say it's just a mom and pop outfit, but hey, I was a librarian for 25 years, and when I was checking facts, most of the time it was just me, by myself. Anyway, when I saw the story about Michelle Obama and the $1,000 handbag with a photo, I thought it was fake or photoshopped. First of all, it's an ugly, ugly bag,and second,it's teal and her shoes are blue. And this woman is giving "sacrifice" a bad name when she tells us to eat our carrots and she goes out for ribs. Could she really follow up that story with something this tacky? Don't know. I've always said her husband wasn't one of us, but I had hopes for her (by not one of us, I don't mean I'm a birther, because if his mother is an American, that's good enough for me).

Reed Krakoff set to hit fashion big-time after Michelle Obama carries $1,000 tote (and despite the price it's already sold out) | Mail Online