Sweet Christ what is Kim Davis wearing?

[haele]

86. Appropriate means clean and neat.

Look, I'm overweight and I can often look like a potato sack, but I can still look appropriate for a SOTU simply by wearing what I normally wear to work - in a pair of comfortable shoes, clean and pressed slacks, with a nice blouse and scarf (perhaps a casual suit jacket) - without wearing make-up and with my hair simply brushed and maybe dressed up in a braided chignon. Appropriate for a government affair is the same as looking appropriate for a professional job. Ten minutes worth of "work" to not look like I just ran to the event after finishing up a 3 hour shopping run at the mall and trying to find a place to park because I spent time at Kohls looking for a last minute birthday present for the office baby-shower tomorrow.

I make less than Kim Davis and live in California - where the cost of living is higher. And I can easily fall under the same stereotype that Kim Davis does - an older, lumpy, hard-working woman in glasses with poor teeth and work-damaged hands who buys clothes for their utility, doesn't wear make-up, lives in a double-wide trailer with four cats, a grandchild and a disabled spouse who isn't working.
The only difference between me and her on the surface is that I don't hide any personal fears or nastiness behind a religious façade.
As casual as I am, I still would respect myself and my hosts enough never go to an event like that looking the way she did. Hell, I wouldn't let myself be blackmailed into going to a boring office social get-together looking the way she did.

Sorry if it sounds shallow, but there it is. Clean and Neat is always the default for appropriate for a professional, be they man or woman.

Haele