I wasn't even going to address this minor flap over a women's lacrosse team wearing flip flops in the White House. Obviously they are ignorant and totally lacking in any knowledge of protocol. When a friend in San Francisco asked me yesterday if I had heard about it, I said "Yes, and I blame the parents for not educating their daughters in knowing the proper way to dress for formal occasions." She then told me the girls had been on the Today show with their mothers, and some of the mothers backed their daughter's decision. I rest my case.
How Do We Look? Answer: "Bleh."
Last night I had the television on briefly and Breakfast at Tiffany's was just about to begin. I knew I didn't have the time, but I thought "I'll just watch the first 15-20 minutes of it." Made in 1961, during the era of Kennedy style, the film opens with Audrey Hepburn exiting a cab at 727 Fifth Avenue in the early hours, wearing a Givenchy evening gown with elaborate pearls, a tiara, and a white bag that holds a Danish pastry and a paper cup of coffee. She takes a nibble of the Danish, a sip of the coffee and tosses them, then she wanders over to the display windows at Tiffany to peruse the jewels. A study in street versus penthouse.
Slightly further into the film when her new neighbor (played by George Peppard) meets her, Holly is in a flurry to get ready to go visit mafia chief "Sally Tomato" at Sing Sing prison. She is scrounging around for her shoes (alligator) and throws on a simple black dress, oversized black hat with beige chiffon scarf, huge black sunglasses. The entire assembly is meant to portray thrown together, but when she turns to "Fred" and says "How do I look?" the collective audience always thinks "you look...amazing."
So I was thinking about Holly Golightly casually throwing together her look, wearing her alligator shoes to Sing Sing and the flip flop girls who can't even put together proper footwear to enter the White House. I suppose it fits the times when you have a President who wears a cowboy buckle that says "President."
How Do I Look? Answer: You look...amazing
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I suppose if the group had consisted of college men, some or all would have (a) shown the tops of underwear and/or (2) kept baseball hats on.
Sadly, I have heard one excuse for the flip-flop choice was "but they cost a lot!" That just adds insult to injury. The measure of good taste and appropriate ettiquette is the price tag? How sad.
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I'm surprised no one at the White House said anything to them...
Ok If it is true that those flip flops cost a lot, then I would want a refund! They don't have to wear Minolos, but they really would have done better with a Payless Pump Than a $100.00 flip flop...Sheesh!
I am not a shoe hog, but even this middle class brat knows that you don't take the poolside look to the White House (Even with Ole Tex at the helm!) Tell the rich girls to get a clue, and about their mothers...They are probably to busy with their own shopping and cabana boys to teach their daughters anything useful.
Can you imagine Condi showing up to a press conference in flip flops? BTW It really doesn't matter how much they cost, you know they were making the unattractive common noise they are named after. Think about that going down the hall White House staffers!
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What is surprising to me is that everyone knows there are shoes for different occasions - comfortable, casual, business, and formal. I don't believe that these Northwestern girls wouldh've gone to their proms in FFs but wouldh've found the most uncomfortable shoes to wear to show off. WHY? So they could look good.
We have come to the "Fall of the Roman Empire" here, folks. We have no sense of decorum and no sense of style. When men walked around in t-shirts that were too small and showed their potbellies we would shudder. But now women feel quite comfortable to show THEIR potbellies and be proud of it. We see boys entering decent restaurants who leave their baseball caps on throughout the entire meal. There doesn't seem to be any coordination between the man and woman when it comes to the dress-code of the evening....he'll be in shorts and t-shirt (as if he just woke up and looked in the clean laundry bin) while she's dressed to the nines.
THESE girls shouldh've known better. They're lack of training in these matters are a reflection of their upbringing as well as their education (take note, Northwestern). To brush the faux pas off by saying they'll donate the FFs for auction to charity is a joke and a shame that they're trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
It also goes to show me that the other excuse these women gave - that they were exPENSIVE FFs shows that they are materialistic to the Nth degree...that money and current styles are more important than common sense.
BUT WAIT!!!! Shouldn't we take advantage of the moment and create the White House Flip Flop??? Pairs that have the Presidential Seal at the heel? OR pairs that have the North-side front of the White House?
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Why is that old man wearing shoes and why is he standing in the middle of all those young girls wearing flip flops and holding himself up with those different color canes ? What ? Oh... never mind...
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