Black crepe with a small tortoiseshell print, the pantsuit is among the simplest looks Mrs. Obama has worn in her post-White House life, in which her style on book tours and at big events has been marked by a discernible experimentation and sense of fun: Balenciaga “pantaboots,” Versace safety pins. Not this time. This time, the suit was even simpler than the one she wore at the DNC.
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The suit was from Theory, a label that has become a uniform for many working women as they climb the executive ranks, and that has grown into a behemoth. (It is now owned by Fast Retailing, the group that owns Uniqlo; the blazer that Mrs. Obama wore is currently on sale for $256.80). As such, it was less a fashion statement than a statement of solidarity — with the women in the room and with Ms. Harris herself.
Versace safety pins
Look up price
TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE DOLLARS FOR A FUCKING SAFETY PIN!? We must destroy brands.
Jesus, it would be hilarious talking with a CEO and having them tell me with a straight face why a safety pin is 295 of all things.
How hard is it to start a grift for some luxury brands?
I learn to make something simple, like, idk, ties. I brag about my legendary ties and try to start a “luxury tie” company where I make a few in small batches because they’re super rare and sell like 15 for 500 a pop
I try to grift CHUDs by having a few chud theme’d ties: Cybertruck ties, Bitcoin ties, some with Roman busts on them, skull ties: specifically things that cater to the rebrand the right has been doing alongside Peter Thiel rather than the “trashy, gauche” CHUDs of like the 2000s and earlier that you see lampooned on Middle Class Fancy.
I also have a hidden QR code that links to PPB on every tie.
I mean they could point to the fact it’s made of gold
It’s a brooch made of precious metals and gems but shaped like a safety pin
$295 is more than I’ve spent on clothes for the last decade by several orders of magnitude lmao
To be fair, some $295 trifle of an accessory is pretty reasonable considering their dozens of acres of Hawaiian beachfront property spread across multiple compounds, including historic Hawaiian heritage sites that they promptly helped destroy by being part of the insufferable sea wall folks who destroy beaches for everyone to keep a little bit of their land a little longer
Both parties are NoT ThE SaMe indeed.
“working women as they climb the executive ranks” lol
I do NOT fucking understand the liberal fascination with this woman
a prominent woman of color they can feel good/smart for liking
I think it’s a deep parasocial thing. They really wish they could be her friend. Ideally - bffs.
Hexbear. Do NOT understand.
Well naturally.
Enlighten me.
we got a funny guy over here
it was less a fashion statement than a statement of solidarity
A coat that costs an entire paycheck for some people sure does say a lot about the class she’s got solidarity with—and the writers’ own loyalties.
Barack Obama in a tan suit: “Come out ye cowardly Fenians, come out and fight”
There are some good comments in here but that in my favorite.
I wish they would deploy this genre of articled–the highly detailed inventory of what a political actor wears–and do it to all men as well. not just the rumbles suit/same jacket for 20 years crank like Bernie, but the impeccably tailored ancient senators and pseudo-rural folks-whisperers in $500/yard bespoke custom run seersucker suits that cost more than most people spend on their entire wardrobe over the course of their lives.
and the they should aggregate and confine all of the articles of this genre to a special periodical called, The Toilet.
Hell yeah girl boss corporate drones rise up!!
suit discourse
The fuck? Plain? That shit looks like the camouflage pattern from Operation Dark Storm
Not a fashion guy so maybe my taste is shit, but that looks hideous to me. The pattern is awful. Okay Michelle, you like Metal Gear Solid 3 – I do too! – but we don’t need varied camo patterns for formal clothing.
I have zero knowledge of whateer she is talking about in this speech. She does not have that shit on for real
I think she looks amazing, and even if she didn’t I’d find something better to critique her for.
It was probably a coincidence, but a telling one. With (yes) the freedom to choose what they wanted to wear, they chose a suit, the armor women have historically adopted to telegraph seriousness, toughness and their fight to break into a traditionally man’s world.
Maybe the newyork times could try “telegraph seriousness” by, actually I don’t know how to fix them.
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