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Melania And Ivanka Trump Criticized For Wearing High Heels

Fox News ~ Aug 14, 2017

A Newsweek piece published last week attacked First Lady Melania Trump and first daughter Ivanka Trump for wearing high heels.

In the piece, which was titled "Melania, Ivanka, and Ivana Trump Wear High Heels, a Symbol of Everything That Is Beautiful and Horrifying About Them," author Nina Burleigh wrote that high heels are out of fashion, but the Trump women still wear them.

She said that's because the they are primarily concerned with appearing attractive to men, not wearing comfortable footwear.

“Historically, the Trumpian women’s shoe of choice was invented not for women but for aristocratic men, men who would never have to work, and who didn’t have to walk much but were carried in litters or carriages,” Burleigh wrote. “Paintings of Louis XIV, the Sun King, show him sporting red-soled heels, posing with one foot forward and pointed out— much like Ivana and Ivanka Trump in countless photographs over the years.”

Likewise, a recent piece in Forbes said that Melania Trump is fashionable, but she's unlikely to become a fashion icon like Michelle Obama.

"Becoming an icon is about more than just a pretty face and an international platform," author Rachelle Bergstein wrote, arguing that the current first lady sticks to a "classic style" while the former first lady "captured the zeitgeist in fashion."

"Trump is gorgeous like an actress at the Oscars, with a dash of Real Housewife thrown in. She’s polished, but she’s not inspiring," Bergstein wrote.

On "Fox & Friends," Steve Kurtz said the Trump women are "fair game" because of their association to President Trump.

"I think the general rule with first ladies is that they're off limits," Kurtz said. "They're not elected, they're not setting public policy. You just leave them alone."

He said that has apparently changed and the rules are being rewritten for the Trump presidency.

"If Michelle Obama and Melania switched clothes ... I think they would still like Michelle's clothes and call her a fashion icon," Kurtz said. "And they wouldn't really go for what Melania's wearing these days or anything. It doesn't really matter what."

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Carol Kelly

The rules were rewritten for the Obama First "Lady". Michelle Obama was totally de-feminized. Nothing about her from "her" Adam's apple to her broad shoulders was in anyway feminine. The MSM was in love with the idea of a same sex "wife".

debeda

OMG could they get any more petty and ridiculous? Maybe the "the Trump women" should dress like $5 hos like Michelle did a couple of years ago at the Children's Choice Awards. Now THAT was an inappropriate and horrid sight to see....

Mr Bombastic

Hmmm...Look what I found.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Your estimate is three dollars too high. Michelle's dress maker used to make circus tents and clown costumes for Ringling Brothers.

boatbob2

And the demoncrat dirt bags,all wear flip flops.... Much rather see a LADY wearing high heels.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Burleigh and Rachelle Bergstein you are kidding right?

pafret Loc: Northeast

Is Melania Trump's Overseas Wardrobe a Silent Protest?
by Booth Moore

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Melania Trump in Riyadh, May 21, 2017.

The first lady, who is accompanying President Donald Trump on his first major foreign trip, touched down in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, a country where aspects of 'The Handmaid’s Tale' ring all too true.

Is Melania Trump’s overseas wardrobe a silent protest?

The first lady, who is currently accompanying President Donald Trump on his first major foreign trip to the Middle East, touched down in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, a country where aspects of Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale ring all too true: g****r segregation is the norm, women are unable to drive, do not have the full v**e and only recently won the right to open their own bank accounts.

The oil-rich kingdom is also known for its conservative dress code, which is enforced by the religious police. Saudi women have to be covered in robes known as abayas, usually paired with hijabs (headscarves) or niqabs (which leave only a slit for the eyes), or wear a full burqa covering the body from head to toe.

Much has been made of Melania’s choice not to wear the customary head scarf on the trip, but many women who have visited the kingdom before did the same, including former first lady Michelle Obama, British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Though the Islamic head covering is required for Saudi women, wives and female family members of foreign dignitaries can choose to wear it or not.
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Melania Trump wears a Stella McCartney jumpsuit and oversized gold belt in Saudi Arabia.
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Melania Trump wears a Stella McCartney jumpsuit and oversized gold belt in Saudi Arabia.

But what’s been more striking perhaps is what the first lady has worn in Saudi Arabia, where she is a popular figure who has been praised for her “classic and conservative” fashion choices. When she arrived on Saturday, she wore a black Stella McCartney jumpsuit and gilded gold belt so large, it resembled a prize fighter’s. At first, it seemed like an odd choice of something to deplane in, but in the context of the looks that followed, the superhero-like outfit makes sense on a couple of levels.

For their part in the trip narrative, where Donald Trump has been playing nice and condemning extremism rather than Islam, Melania and first daughter Ivanka Trump have been making appearances championing the kingdom’s recent strides in women’s rights, as modest as those may be. In doing so, the first lady has made some interesting wardrobe choices. When she visited a GE call center in Riyadh staffed entirely by women, she wore a militaristic-looking, olive drab Ralph Lauren shirt dress and zebra print pumps, looking like a feminist freedom fighter. Was she signaling how far the kingdom has come, or how far it has still to go? Perhaps a little of both.
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Melania Trump in white pantsuit at the Arab Islamic Summit.
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Later in the day, for the Arab Islamic American Summit, Melania changed into a tailored white pantsuit. Under Islamic law, male visitors to the kingdom are encouraged to dress conservatively, according to WorldBusinessCulture.com, which means suits and ties for business meetings, and women are encouraged to wear skirts, preferably ankle length. So the choice of a pantsuit is notable, maybe even pointed, suggesting that Melania wanted to convey that she had just as much a right to be in the room at the summit as any of the men. (That was not the case at the Saturday night Toby Keith concert, which was for men only.)

Overseas trips are historically a chance for first ladies and princesses to engage in fashion diplomacy.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Melania = classy First Lady.

boatbob2

how the hell can you make a big pile of black dog s**t,a fashion icon???????? the moocher cant even spell classy !!!!!!!!!!

pafret Loc: Northeast

The moocher has become the darling of the media. Have you noticed the endless surveys asking if you would v**e for Moochelle to be President? They depict her in one of the few pictures where she isn't scowling. I have to wonder who is paying for this insanity of constantly pushing people who are totally unqualified to lead this country down our throats. It has to be a concerted plan to destroy is because Moochelle has made no bones about how much she h**es America and Americans. She just likes our money, yet there is a constant flow of information on this non-entity whose only achievements were spending small fortunes on outrageously expensive vacations, which we paid for.

It really is time to end this excessive feeding at the public troth and make these politicians at all levels pay their own way.

debeda

I'll second that!