Wouldnt it be great to be tall like Michelle Obama? When you are tall, clothes look great on you. You look more like the models that clothes are designed for. If shorter women want designer looks, they usually get just cut off versions of the originals, making the proportions wrong. Pencil skirts, for example, look more like pencil stumps on short women. Do pencils even have stumps anymore? Anyway, its obvious that tall women stand out in a crowd. They get looked up to like queens. Men have dreams about them. And it seems people pay more attention to what tall women say. And necks. Neck like a swan, they say with admiration. Havent heard neck like a duck. Not to mention legs, legs that go on and on. Las Vegas showgirls stop traffic.
Thankfully, Michelle Obama is proud of her height, which is obvious from the way she stands. She stands straight and so do the girls, both of whom look as if they will be tall. The use of local designers in Chicago for her clothing is a great boon to little known designers, but being able to see what they can do is inspirational. On the fashion creation shows, one never hears how the designers learned to cut fabric or put in zippers. Its just as if they were taken off the street and everybody knows how to do these things. Even though having a designer make your clothes is above the budget level of most women, TV stylists constantly harp on the notion that your clothes should fit and make you look good , which means alterations and tailoring.
Michelle Obama was already employed by the big-deallaw firm in Chicago when Barack was hired. They had both gone to Ivy League Schools, so we are not talking about either one of them having anything like a blue collar background. In one interview, she recounts first hearing about the new hire and saying What kind of mother would name her child Barack Obama? So they started out as equals, seeing as it were, eye to eye.
People always mention how instinctively warm she is. This seems a quality not shared with previous First Ladies until you go back to Betty Ford. It was shocking, they said, when she met the Queen of England, who came up to her bust line, and she just put her arm around Queen Elizabeth. Royal protocol is You Do Not Touch The Queen. Michelle Obama might have known this, but her first response was to put her arm around this nice little lady as they lined up for pictures. And the Queen, no slouch at protocol and making people happy, put her arm around Michelles back. Tentatively, but hey, that she did it at all is amazing.
The Queen would probably agree with Michelle Obamas child raising ideas. She even had to argue with her own former banker mother about whether the girls should make their own beds in the White House. That resonated with America. We hear almost nothing about the girls except at official times. Nobody saw pictures of them rolling on the White House lawn with the puppy. But they must go to malls and birthday parties and sleepovers with other girls whose families are probably pretty happy about chaperoning courtesy of the Secret Service.