Fashion Incident.

Yes, this is TOP NEWS.

I wasn’t critisising it being on Neatorama, I was critisising its appearance as MAJOR NEWS on the page it was linked from. Lord knows that this is truly the biggest story ever.

From the cbs “top story”:

“Three women donned the exact same $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta dress, a fashion faux pas in itself. But that’s just the beginning of this debacle of ladies in red.

It just so happened that First Lady Laura Bush was wearing the very same dress too.”

Who knew that the First Lady was not a woman??

There’s only one dress, they just took turns wearing it!

It’s obviously a mirror trick.

Ah, but how many actually paid that much. Maybe someone paid even more? When a dress is $8500 you know there is a negotiation before final purchase.

Yeah, I know the same thing happened to me. Just the other day, Myself and four other programmers all wore jeans to work.

How embarrassing!!!!!

Fishy,

because Merkins keep electing rich people to be president?

Those bitches knew exactly what they were doing. I’ve convinced George to send them all on vacation to the beautiful resort at Guantanamo Bay.

Not to be a downer on the sassy commentary, but why is the First Lady wearing $8500-worth of dress when the poverty level is where it is?

Maybe ask Hillary Clinton; I’m certain she’d know. Not that she’d deign to answer, but she would know.

I think the fact that so many people are so enthralled with who wears what and how much it cost is the saddest commentary of all. Are all elected officials, including the First Family supposed to take a vow of poverty when they take office?

I just a got a new Armani tux, and let me tell you, it makes even me look good. Seriously.

I think you should complain if these fatcats aren’t contributing to charities, etc., but if they are giving and helping, sometimes a nice, well fitting piece of clothing is really sweet.

And, it’s not a Hummer, which every redneck seems to need. You want to complain, complain about a guy who spends $45,000 on a Hummer that is just wasting resources.

She can sit on the White House lawn and burn a pile of 8500 one dollar bills if she wants to. It’s her money and this is still a free country.

Che is dead and the Iron Curtain fell a long time ago…give it up. Capitalisim won. And stop pretending like you cared about Humvee armor before you read the talking point on Kos and DU and stop worrying about successful people having a good time. You sound like a bunch of jealous Puritans.

Fishy has no problems with Hillary Clinton spending the same amounts of money for a dress. Nor would he have problems with her banning anyone who was wearing the same dress like she did when she was first lady. He also has no problems with Hillary paying $500 for a haircut, either.

yes seems to have no problems with John Kerry being gigalo to a billionairess with 5 houses.

He has no problems with Teddy Kennedy’s millions that his father earned the hard way-smuggling booze across the border.

He has no problems with John Edwards and his millions earned chasing ambulances.

He seems to have no problems with Nancy Pelosi and her millions, either. Millions earned in part by her making sure that her family got a BIG cut from the decomissioning of the Presidio. I am sure he has no problems with her hiring “undocumented sharecroppers” to work in her vinyards in Napa, either. I bet she doesn’t pay them minimum wage.

Nor does he have any problems with Al Gore not only being in politics and the high priest of the “global warming” church owning over 20 million dollars of Occidental Petroleum stock, either. Nope-dey jus’ some po’ white boys.

ouch: Don’t worry, you will get your wish.

George Says:
Are all elected officials, including the First Family supposed to take a vow of poverty when they take office?

Uhhhhh, no, but it would be nice if they spent, like most Americans, a decent amount on their clothes.

I understand how these things work: De La Renta gifted the dress to the White House (recall how Nancy Reagan had to give her dresses back when she left?), and Laura got to wear it.

BUt really…when most people in this country can’t afford an $850 suit, what’s the point in having her wear an $8500 gown? Wouldn’t a $1,000 gown cover her just as well?

Enough already with the politics, you dolts.
The rich are running the country, and not the poor?
All big-name politicians are filthy rich, and they show it.

Except for Hillary Clinton, of course. She only showed up at parties in dresses that she sewed herself, or bought at the Goodwill store, because she’s sensible, and not at all extravagant like the Evil Republicans.

Why, just the other day, she was spotted at a Wal-Mart, rummaging through the Clearance section. When she was discovered, she quickly hopped onto a local bus to avoid the publicity.

“did the diplomatic thing” ? Diplomatic would have been to stay in the same dress. Or offering her wardrobe to the others to change.
By going off and changing she left the other three to face the embarassment alone.

* I meant bags of Christmas tomatoes

my vicious streak duly exercised, I shall depart..

What about most of the men at the party showing up in the same suit? That is seriously tacky.