look at this re-designed dress of Laura's

[grasswire]

a freeper (user name Dawnn) re-designed Pickles' ball gown. Gotta wonder why the wife of the world's most powerful man can't find a designer who can do this for her:

BEFORE



AFTER

[Cleita]

1. So even the freepers think she's not dressing like

a first lady should.

[celestia671]

7. Somebody caption that photo!

The Queen looks a little uncomfortable, dont'cha think?

[virgdem]

8. The Queen is NOT AMUSED!!!

eom

[HamstersFromHell]

17. Caption? How about...

"Ma and Pa Kettle meet the Queen" (with profuse apologies to Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride)

Hammies!

[calimary]

40. EXCELLENT caption!

Must be hard for laura, what with all the Kennedy stuff all over the airwaves this week - especially the carrying on about the ever-so-stylish and graceful and elegant and cultured and multi-lingual and REALLY compassionate Jackie. Eat your heart out, laura mow-em-down-at-the-stop-sign bush!

[goforit]

2. Looks like you should be the next designer!!!

Go grasswire!!!

Whata difference!!!

[Bucky]

3. The problem with the redesigned dress is

The redesigned dress doesn't accentuate Mrs Bush's BIG FAT HIPS enough.

[mhr]

4. Is That Why They Call Her Pickles?

eom

[NashVegas]

34. Bah

I think the second dress looks more like something Cruella De Harris would wear.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. Yes, much better.

But what did she do about that male guffant standing to the left of her?

[chimpymustgo]

6. Both designs are too fussy. Lose the pleats. Period.

The dress would be beautiful with just a plain skirt - no pleats, no tucks, no darts.

[radwriter0555]

20. The pleats are ok in a dress such as this, it shows off the luster of the

fabric.

BUT THE RIGHT GLOVES WOULD HAVE HELPED.

You simply don't wear long sleeve gloves with a long sleeve gown.

Argh.

What? She couldn't step around the Piccadilly Circus and grab a pair of gloves that were appropriate?

Please.

[chimpymustgo]

27. Sorry. Her hips are too wide for that fussiness. The luster of the fabric

is apparent without the pleating. Maybe Uma Thurman could pull that off, but not Pickles. A flare at the bottom perhaps.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Amazing! That's like a 400% increase in bettermentalism

The redesigned option is so much better.

Amazing that a freeper could do it.

And even more amazing that the wife of the most powerful man in the world can't find a designer worth a shit.

(also agree with the poster who said to get rid of the pleats - they really don't work on this dress).

And yes, the queen looks uncomfortable, but so would you if you had to stand next tot he stupidist person you've encountered, but who also happens to be the leader of the world's most powerful nation.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Pickles should also get better posture. That would help her out.

Look how nicely the queen is standing, and how hunched over the SHITHEADINCHIEF and Laura are.

[montana_hazeleyes]

42. They look like

they are standing in a criminal line-up. (one can dream)

[CanuckAmok]

11. why did Dawnn leave that goiter on Chimpy's neck?

Oh, sorry...that's his head.

[CanuckAmok]

12. Sidebar: wouldn't it be weird if the Queen was on wheels? Who would know?!

n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. ROTFL!!!

I wish I had come up with that one!

[supernova]

13. Gag Me!

That person photoshopped the pic and they didn't come up with what's wrong with the photo in the first place?

Get a clue! It isn't the neckline, Dammit! x(

She has the wrong gloves for that dress. She should:

1) wear a sleeveless, strappless, or short-sleeveed gown or

2) wear wrist-length gloves, like the queen.

[grasswire]

16. yes, yes...

...the freepers are unhappy about the gloves, too. They decided that no one thought of the fact that gloves would be protocol and ran out at the last minute to get something. It's hard to believe that a WH social secretary and protocol staff wouldn't think of gloves. These are too long, too white, and don't fit.

[cosmicdot]

15. Dr. Frank N. Furter wants his lab gloves back

[cosmicdot]

18. so, how did Pickles dress when * was Gov.?

:shrug:

[Hep]

19. Can you say frumpy?

I knew you could.

[DS1]

21. That's some major cameltoe!

:wow:

[SoCalDem]

22. Here's a selection she would love

[tjdee]

23. WHITE gloves? Thanks for representing American women, Pickles!

That outfit is seriously, seriously, a nightmare.

The white gloves are TOTALLY wrong. The wrong color, length, everything. They're blinding next to that dark burgundy.

Can you imagine what she would dress like if she had no personal designer??

????

Very, very scary. I mean, wear what you want, but when you're representing me to the women of the world, Mrs. Bush, I'd appreciate some inkling of style and class. Props to the freeper for improving that mess--she should send it to Laura's office.

[MissMarple]

24. She's supposed to wear white gloves and the wrists must be covered.

The length of the glove may even be prescribed, but they could be a tad tighter. And the overall effect doesn't seem to have been a consideration.

[KoKo]

29. black lace gloves would have worked. It's sad that short white gloves

are required with formal wear. Is that to keep you from giving the Queen jerms? It's really outdated and ridiculous looking, but black lace would have suited the dress. She should have demanded an exception. After all her hubby is an Emperor!

[tjdee]

39. So why did she wear burgundy, UGH, LOL! Thanks, though,

I didn't know that white gloves were mandatory.
I'm wondering if she knew that, LOL--they just seem so out of place and slapped on....but thank you for pointing that out, I didn't know they had to be white.

[ProudGerman]

25. I know this is about Laura

and the absolute mess that is her appearance in that pic. I'm not a fashion expert, or a layman for that matter, but even I know she looks horrid in that pic. (I give myself points for noticing the gloves being totally wrong before reading a post about that)

Quick question. Is that color wrong for her skin tone and hair color? The whole thing just seems wrong on all levels.

But egads! He looks like a fucking chimp standing there! He gives the appearance that standing upright is the latest trick Cheney taught him.

[belle]

26. You said it...

Laura, honey, sweetie, it's not the dress, it's that 170-pound ball-and-chain accessory. Lose that, and you can wear whatever the hell you want, with my blessing.

Seriously, there's something so *off* about his body language. i don't know what it is, exactly; he's just *wrong.*

[CanuckAmok]

28. it's because his organ grinder couldn't clear customs. n/t

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

30. First of all

you don't wear gloves with a longsleeve dress, especially white gloves. :eyes:

[DS1]

31. uhh, tell the to the Queen

:7

Like said above, they are supposed to. Dunno why, gloves are silly.

[Bossy Monkey]

32. Hey, this guy LOVES her gloves

but why are her ears so small?

[baldguy]

33. Still looks like a prom dress from Walmart.

[Bossy Monkey]

35. "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist"

Practically the only funny thing ever said on the Carol Burnett Show. (For younger folks, it was a Gone With The Wind parody; she made her dress out of curtains but forgot to take out the curtain rod)

[Scott Lee]

36. The gloves? She looks like she's ready to scrub a toilet.

Good gods. Fashion police, where are you??

[screembloodymurder]

37. Laura's got no sense of fashion or taste

but I guess we knew that.

[Ilsa]

38. The glaring white gloves scrunched down

to the wrists make her hands look huge and her arms look long. She looks like she's expected to handle biohazardous materials. Her aides should have cut off the gloves and hemmed them for her

She wears too many two piece outfits that slice off at the hip in the wrong place. The re-designed tunic takes twenty pounds off her hips because the neckline goes vertical, and the diagonal lines create illusion. The color looks too rosy for her. Maybe if it was more maroon (a slight brown color shift) she would look better.

JMO.

[Piperay]

41. Much, much better but

she needs to do something about the Mickey Mouse gloves.

[grasswire]

43. actually...

...the queen's gloves are not white, but a very light tan-beige.