Michelle Obama style sparks debate

Mrs Obama's dress was just right for the night. I thought it was smart but did not try to distract attention from her husband - the key figure in all this. Her dress sense shows she is modest, supporting her husband and her children - not trying to be sexy with bare shoulders and plunging neckline like most celebrities. Mrs Obama is above all that. Like her husband, her values are the ones that really matter - care, compassion, honesty, intelligence, hard work, beauty of the soul - not superficial, skin-deep beauty.
Comment by Elizabeth Cochrane on November 06 13:16

All too often, women in the public eye are interchangable style-wise as they are all told to follow the same rules. Mrs Obama dressed well, and in accordance with her own preferences. She looked good, supported her husband and children and did well.

Leave her alone to develop her own preferences and don't turn her into another identikit political wife.
Comment by Janet Andreasen on November 06 13:42

I think she looks nice. She should be able to wear what she likes, and seems to have adopted a modest dress sense for public events. (I also thing the middle band looks like an 'x', which would kinda be appropriate for voting week!)
What does it matter what she wears anyway?
Comment by Pamela on November 06 14:13

I think Mrs O looks cool as (except maybe she should have ditched the cardi!)...Down with mumsy frumpdom a la Sarah Brown, Cherie, Hillary and as for that Palin character, she can now tootle back to Alaska. £70k on her election clothes? Didn't help her win, did it!
Comment by CJG on November 06 14:17

I see nothing wrong with the dress - but maybe I haven't seen it in, uhm, several camera angles to examine the seams.
I think the dress is fine, I like the colours and I think it suits Michelle well.
But maybe my opinion doesn't count since I'm not American, and I don't have a style column in a big magazine :)
Comment by Ginger on November 06 14:17

The dress was beautiful....Just like her and her husband's demeanor.
Comment by Jackie L Cunningham on November 06 14:28

How sad. That the press have to focus on something so negative and petty. She is not only an intelligent woman but a brave one to support her husband/his party, work full time in a high powered job and raise 2 children. I think a cardigan and a dress is the last of her worries.
Comment by Jules Mint on November 06 15:25

If we are all honest with ourselves, we don't always put our best foot forward, and we have NO RIGHT to point the finger; whether she is Future First Lady or Not. Let's work together healing our country, not bashing Michelle Obama's wardrobe. Haven't we had enough negativity?
Comment by qdpie on November 06 15:33

I think it is nice that the dress represents a personal taste. It seems modern, bold and down to earth, not dressed up to slick perfection in a manipulatively styled way. That actually tunes in with the open-minded attitude America is hungry for I think, so it's fine isn't it? Anyway I don't understand why fashion workers have to openly respond to it, Mrs Obama was not appearing on a celebrity show or something, she attended to support her winning democrat husband.
Comment by F. on November 06 15:51

Funny, I hadn't realised that the US election's primary attraction was fashion? Michelle isn't a designer or a model, she's the first lady to-be, surely there are more important things to take notice of?
Comment by Sally on November 06 16:37

Really people? Is this necessary? I'm so horridly disgusted with crap like this! Truth is WHO CARES what someone thinks of the dress. If she likes it, feels comfortable in it and her husband says she looks beautiful in it -- that is ALL that matters!
I sure hope you don't come snooping into my wardrobe. The only thing about mine is: I feel good, I think I look good and my husband says I look good. I take him shopping with me because if I try something on that doesn't look good, he will tell me!

LET THESE PEOPLE ALONE! How you dress is a personal choice and an outward expression of WHO you are! No wonder why people in this world are so shallow -- they have the media feeding them all this crap!
Comment by Me on November 06 21:18

I find it very sad that in this day and age we build people up and then we knock them down. Who really gives a damn what she wore? her husband has just become Americas FIRST black President is this not far more important and worth talking about?
Comment by Helen on November 06 21:28

Looking at all the different outfits she wears she is really comfortable in wearing different colours and styles. I think this dress looks great on her and I don't think it's bright. We're going to see her in all the fashion magazines each week I bet! She can pull off practically any colour and she also compliments what her husband wears each time!
Comment by Sabrina on November 06 22:40

Dress is great, Michelle looked beautiful, just because she doesn't dress like a 'usual' first lady (aka Cindy McCain) it doesn't mean she's unfashionable! LOVE THE OBAMAS.
Comment by magazine-addict on November 07 17:26

Old horse face did not make a wise choice for her dress. It detracts from her spouse and all one saw was her flashing across the screen. In addition the dress was... askew is a good word. No continuity. It had no class.
Comment by Jay on November 17 11:38