For Hillary it was the 'pant suit,' for Jackie the Pillbox Hat, what will it be for the Obama women? I can't wait. It is stated that during Depressions and Recessions the hemlines go up to save fabric. What will 'the status quo' look like and how will DC ladies 'dress for the occasion?'
Greer lets loose on Michelle Obama's 'butcher's apron' (click title to entry, thank you)
November 19, 2008 - 7:05PM
Feminist Germaine Greer says the dress Michelle Obama wore to her husband's US election declaration was a "butcher's apron" and looked like a "geometrical haemorrhage".
In her regular column for the Guardian, Greer calls the outfit "All black with an eye-burning red panel that splattered itself down the front like a geometrical haemorrhage".
It was "a poster in the most disturbing colours known to man, the colours of chaos. Coral snakes and venomous spiders signal their destructive potential by the display of similarly violent contrasts"....
Fit first couple: Obamas find time for daily workouts, leaving no excuses for the rest of us (click here)
By DEANNA BELLANDI Associated Press Writer
3:11 AM EST, November 19, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) _ Many women recoil at the thought of baring their arms in sleeveless dresses or blouses, but not Michelle Obama — half of the fabulously fit new first couple.
Both President-elect Barack Obama and the future first lady have exercise routines that would put most people to shame. Michelle Obama used to join a friend for 4:30 a.m. workouts, and Barack Obama usually starts his day in the gym.
Michelle Obama has hosted "The View," been interviewed on "60 Minutes," graced the cover of Newsweek and hit the campaign trail, all with her buff arms bared.
"One of the things I always talk about is got to exercise," the 44-year-old mother of two told an overwhelmingly female crowd at a campaign event last year in Chicago....
Obama gains 'GQ' honors, '60 Minutes' viewers (click here)
November 18, 2008
GQ has named Barack Obama one of its "Men of the Year" - along with Baltimore's Michael Phelps and actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Jon Hamm - with a cover and article that went to press before Election Day, says the Huffington Post.
The article about Obama - also named "Game Changer of the Year" - was written by Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Meanwhile, Obama's appearance on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday night gave the venerable news show its highest overnight ratings in nearly a decade, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Steve Kroft spent almost the entire hour interviewing the president-elect and Michelle Obama, drawing 24.5 million viewers, according to the preliminary Nielsen estimate.
That is more viewers than for any other episode of a prime-time show seen this season and is the biggest audience for 60 Minutes since January 1999.
