What will Michelle Obama Put on For Tea With The Queen?

Will Michelle Obama put on sleeves to satisfy Queen Elizabeth II later this week? Flats? Perhaps a hat? Will she recycle a beforehand worn ensemble, as a nod to the worldwide financial system's perilous state -- which everyone blames on America -- or debut a dazzling new outfit? Does it matter?

 

You betcha, as Sarah Palin might say. The self styled hockey mom and Alaskan governor discovered it the laborious approach, when she wore a $2,500 Discount Valentino Women Shoes jacket for her massive speech on the GOP convention. Had she chosen one thing more in tune along with her down dwelling rhetoric, she might have prevented an avalanche of bad press.

 

Clothes have great symbolic power, as every mom who's saved her youngsters' baby footwear is aware of. For someone of Mrs. Obama's stature, that energy can be a social pressure. Due to the intense interest in the first Lady's fashion selections, the world will carefully be watching what she wears on her upcoming journey with the President to London, France, Germany and Turkey. How the primary Lady presents herself and the way she's perceived might go far towards quelling resentment of Mr. Obama's financial insurance policies.

 

First stop for the first couple is London, the place Michelle is wildly in style, her every style resolution breathlessly reported within the press, and where the headline of one newspaper lately cried, "Why doesn't the UK have a Michelle Obama?"

 

Sorry, Carla Bruni, Michelle is the brand new Diana.

 

Based on the White Home schedule, Mrs. Obama will be a part of the President for many of his European events, together with tea with Queen Elizabeth II. Whereas Mr. Obama is busy on the G-20 economic summit, his wife will join Sarah Brown, Britain's First Lady, and the opposite leaders' wives on a visit to a London health facility. In Strasbourg, France, Mrs. Obama will tour a cathedral and a hospital.

 

In any respect these occasions, the first Lady might be standing with valentino shoes online Carla Bruni, the 40-year-old ex-supermodel who is the third spouse of French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Bruni is the form of dazzling, professional magnificence who tends to blur everyone round her. Still, it's Jackie Kennedy who is maybe Michelle's biggest competitors on this trip.

 

No doubt, the press can be comparing Michelle's performance and appearance to Jackie's on her triumphant European journey with President Kennedy in the spring of 1961. That go to, at the peak of the Cold Struggle, reinforced Kennedy's recognition within the free world, however the French-speaking Jackie stole the show. Kennedy was staggered by the adoring crowds who greeted his wife wherever she went and launched himself at a news conference in France by saying, "I'm the man who accompanied Jackie Kennedy to Paris."

 

In her easy sheaths and streamlined ball gowns, Jackie was the very picture of fashionable elegance, "subliminally reinforcing the Kennedy administration's message of forward-pondering dynamism," in response to the catalogue for the 2001 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years."

 

Like Jackie, Michelle is married to a younger, handsome, charismatic president who in his personality and accomplishments embodies the bold, optimistic spirit of America. The identical might be stated of Michelle's clothes, those fresh and original outfits by such U.S designers as Maria Pinto and Narciso Rodriguez, Jason Wu and Isabel Toledo.

 

Lovely clothes can deceive you that the world is a better place than it is - that is why they're so intoxicating. Still, as Coco Chanel as soon as stated, "If there is not any woman, there isn't any gown."

 

Michelle Obama breathes life into all the pieces she places on. I can not wait to see what she wears for tea with the Queen.