Want Melania Trump's floral Dolce & Gabbana coat? It's only $51K

[kytngirl]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/05/26/melania-trump-wears-51-thousand-dollar-dolce-and-gabanna-coat-in-sicily/102197434/

First lady Melania Trump wore the equivalent of an average American family's income on her back for her appearances Friday in Sicily, Italy, on the final day of her first foreign trip as FLOTUS.

SMH

[Xipe Totec]

1. Looks like a bathroom rug. nt

[Rorey]

9. It really is grotesque, IMO

To be fair (don't know why I should), I really didn't like a lot of things that Hillary wore, but they still weren't nearly as ugly as this flower bed Melania wore.

Still, I guess she can wear what she wants, but I don't know why she would feel compelled to wear something SO over the top on this trip. It seems sort of insensitive to me, but then everything that family does is insensitive so it's not surprising.

[onetexan]

17. +1

that thing really looks hideous - like a dirtied bathroom rug

[Turbineguy]

19. Not enough

gold.

Gotta have gold.

[Squinch]

35. I actually was always fascinated by Hillary's choices. She was in a unique position:

a mature woman with a figure like the rest of us have, who needed to always project authority and seriousness, and who also always needed to project that she was approachable and one of us.

She was threading a needle in those clothes. I think that they were, though not great fashion, perfectly engineered to convey all of the contradictory things she needed her clothes to convey.

This coat of Melania's looks like the bad bathing caps my grandmother used to wear. It's disgusting in looks and disgusting in the message it sends.

[Rorey]

39. That's it!!! Bathing cap!

Those ridiculous swimming caps we had to wear when we went to the public pool as a kid.

[Squinch]

41. Right? I'm a swimmer. My sister keeps threatening to replace my racing cap with one of those

while I'm not looking.

[SoCalDem]

42. here ya go

and oodles more @ https://www.google.com/search?q=1940%27s+bathing+caps&tbm=isch&imgil=80AEpNrkYg9ODM%253A%253BAxK12cS982KAFM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.pinterest.com%25252Fmonimania%25252Fi-go-swimming%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=80AEpNrkYg9ODM%253A%252CAxK12cS982KAFM%252C_&usg=__ROd4Qps2mAoZd_OHWNseKgBhrJA%3D&biw=1067&bih=471&ved=0ahUKEwiRsfGj3Y7UAhWCHpQKHfJ9CwIQyjcIOg&ei=YbwoWdH8NIK90ATy-60Q#q=1940's+bathing+caps&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CfNABKTa5GIPIji6r7WGD_1fDd5tG9yuHj4N9ayDhAfXaYZGAnga5VHDikRz12VcwmuP1rWFNWE3t_1_1ML7RsA8oDi9ioSCbqvtYYP98N3EdftGonHxED9KhIJm0b3K4ePg30RH35fvcJbpMEqEglrIOEB9dphkREqSjReAL0hmCoSCYCeBrlUcOKRESJWfYmtsIBPKhIJHPXZVzCa4_1URg0XsNFMwwkIqEgmtYU1YTe3_18xHdJaUF4iJtgSoSCQvtGwDygOL2EQB24MJ8ZcEM

[Squinch]

47. That's a smile of utter mortification right there. She's dying inside because of her bathing cap.

[Rorey]

43. Some of her suits were very nice.

I liked the more fitted ones. I thought the one she wore to the convention was elegant and perfect for the occasion. I wasn't a fan of the tweedy jackets with the fringe. But she didn't ask me what she should wear, and it didn't matter anyway. I admire her greatly, no matter what she wears.

[SoCalDem]

44. As a wealthy woman, she should have hired a designer

to create clothing for her figure.. Her jackets were always too long..and the color choices were a bit off.. She has a decent shape for a woman her age, and the choices she made always made her look frumpy (with a few exceptions)

[Squinch]

46. If she had EVER hired a designer, she would have taken no end of shit for it.

[Zoonart]

2. A genuine...

Marie Antoinette move.

[Siwsan]

3. I now refer to her as Marie Antoinette Trump

She is pretty clueless.

[lapfog_1]

14. As the Donald would say

"Let them eat cake... some of the most delicious cake I can tell you." (pardon me while I kill some more innocent civilians with missiles in Syria)

[onetexan]

18. she should plagiarize Michelle O's sense of style

rather than plagiarizing her speeches

[Siwsan]

25. I have a bunch of fabric scraps. Maybe I should sew up a knock-off $5 jacket for ME to wear.

[Chellee]

31. Actually, it wouldn't take much.

The jacket itself is a really simple shape and just freeform rosettes tacked on all over. Personally, I think it way too busy, but I'm not a rufflely sort of person, so... But if you used fabric scraps you already have for the rosettes and just bought the material for the jacket and lining, you could probably bring this thing in for under $30. Of course, it goes without saying that you're going to be sewing rosettes for days.

[Siwsan]

32. It was actually WAAYYY over the top, for me. I'm a cotton gauze shirt/skirt kind of "fashionista"

I wear my hair in a braid, haven't worn heels in years and I carry things in an embroidered cotton bag, from India, that I've had, for years. It's probably the fanciest accessory I own.

[Chellee]

49. Yay for flats!

I have a closet full of heels that I love...to look at. I hardly ever wear them anymore. Outfits are now assessed by whether or not they will look good with flats, if they won't, I'm 95% less likely to buy it.

[DUgosh]

4. Like something

I made in pre-K with crepe paper and glue

[onecaliberal]

5. She honestly makes me want to vomit

[yardwork]

6. That's ugly as hell. Looks like a bathrobe made of foil.

[ProudLib72]

7. Can't Ivanka make some out of crepe paper?

Sell them at the dollar store so all the deplorables can have one, too. It's only fair. Trickle down fashionomics.

[Rorey]

13. Well, she can now...

She doesn't have original ideas, and has a penchant for stealing designs. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that comes out in her line soon.

[Angry Dragon]

8. looks like something I made in kindergarden

[Lars39]

10. And I'm sure no slave labor went into the making.

Lotta hand work on that.

[procon]

11. Back in the 70s I made a macrame wall hanging that looked like that coat.

I moaned about the cost of all those skeins of colored raffia for the floral appliques, they were very expensive for the day, and probably cost me $10 at the time.

[riversedge]

12. well, that coat certainly is not my style.

[trof]

15. I'm reminded of Pat Nixon's "respectable cloth coat" in the Checkers speech:

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The cloth coat part at 00:18.

[tazkcmo]

16. Plenty to hate her for.

Find me the spouse of a head of state that shows up to official functions like this one, for an official photo no less, wearing some Target off the rack. Hate her because she exposes her son to Shit Gibbon. Hate her for her money first values. But this? She's beautiful in most people's book and she carries herself well unlike her baboon of a "husband".

I'm glad she dressed up, just like Michele Obama, Laura Bush and the classiest, Jackie O.

[monmouth4]

22. The coat is gorgeous and I would wear it in a Jersey minute..n/t

[tazkcmo]

24. I'm a guy

But if I drink enough, so would I!!! lol And a hat!

[C_U_L8R]

20. Good fashion sense

Is not something that blesses the Trumps.
Ticky tacky.

[trueblue2007]

21. MY GOD that is one ugly coat. you'd have to pay me to wear that piece of yuck.

[trof]

26. Yep. Looks like something they drape on a winning racehorse.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. It's hideous.

Looks like the bastard child of a bathmat and a kindergarten project involving crepe paper flowers. For that kind of money a garment ought to at least look like clothing and not a Homecoming parade float.

[Warpy]

27. Or you can just make or buy a denim jacket

and make fabric cabbage roses to sew all over it. Or you can go to a gallery in Santa Fe specializing in wearable art and get something similar (but probably better) for about a tenth the price. Just be aware that this kind of thing is really heavy (as in weight) and fatiguing to wear for any period of time. Yes, I've tried it on, thinking I'd duplicate it in a slightly more restrained fashion, and gave up the idea as my shoulders slumped under the sheer poundage.

IOW, she can have it and that's not sour grapes on my part. Even the price isn't galling since D&G very likely gave it to her to wear for the publicity and she'll likely return it.

What is galling is that trophy wives of plutocrats will pay that much for this stuff. The fact that it's near the median income for a family in the US goes right over their pretty little heads.

No economy as topheavy as this one can survive for long.

[tblue37]

34. All of the other wives in the photo chose simple but attractive dresses--except one who

wore a white tunic and black pants. Macron's wife Brigitte didn't join them for the photo, and opted for a red top and skinny white jeans to walk around in.

Only Trump had to be so ostentatious.

[Tanuki]

37. That is my reaction, too. An over-the-top jacket like that might be

appropriate for an event like the Met Gala. For a day of sightseeing with the other spouses, it came off as Melania looking to upstage everyone else and make herself the center of all the buzz. That is alway tacky, and it made the choice tres gauche, despite the high pricetag. There is also a whiff of the scene in Pretty Woman when Richard Gere took Julia Roberts to Rodeo Drive and bought her some expensive clothes.

[madaboutharry]

28. The First Lady of the United States

needs better advisors. The cost of the coat, regardless of what you think about its appearance, is ostentatious.

The White House is putting out a budget that would bring suffering to millions of Americans. Melania emerging from a car in $51,000 jacket was beyond clueless.

[AngryAmish]

29. I am surprised there is not a curtain rod behind the shoulders.

[ploppy]

30. Miley Cyrus

wore it better on The Voice.

[tblue37]

33. It is so ugly. For $51,000 you'd think she could get something nicer. nt

[hrmjustin]

36. What kind of an idiot would pay $51,000 for that freaking coat?

Insane!

[Coventina]

38. Even if I could afford it, D&G sucks. I'll never forgive them for their anti-gay stance.

[Sugar Smack]

40. She was ambushed by "JoAnn Fabric" & Crafts store clerks,

absconded with in a windowless van, (but one appliqued with rhinestones, sequins and gewgaws), and made a prisoner in the crafts store!! Someone was waiting in there, armed with a Bedazzler. The Scrapbookers approached her with small pots of their stickiest glue. Then yet another of her attackers flung fake flowers over it all. The kind that smell just like Glade air freshener.

[NastyRiffraff]

45. That is a thing of ugly

It looks like a DIY project from hell.

[Boomerproud]

48. Didn't her wedding dress cost 50,000.00?

IIRC it was completely over the top as well.