I am SO not interested in the fashion obsession...

[ddeclue]

I really don't care what dress somebody wore...

This isn't an inauguration thing...

I feel the same way about all the fashion gawkers and fashion police who critique what people wear to the Oscars too.

I am fascinated by politics.

I am fascinated by film.

I couldn't give a damn about all the snooty fashionatti.

Doug D.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Then why start a thread about how much you aren't interested in fashion?

Why not just ignore the threads about dresses, which do interest other people?

[ddeclue]

3. Because it is how I feel about it.

It's not simply a matter of "ignoring" it, I actively am repulsed by it.

I find it distracting, and particularly inegalitarian.

It's snobbish.

Doug D.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Well, YMMV.

I guess the rest of us are a bunch of elitist snobs. I loved Michelle's dress, by the way, and Dr. Biden's boots were awesome.

[ddeclue]

9. Sorry but that's a new acronym to me..

YMMY? :shrug:

I fail to see what someone wears to an event adds or detracts from the acts which brought them there be it Hollywood or Washington.

Doug D.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Your Mileage May Vary.

If you aren't interested, fine. Just don't be raining on other people's parades.

[ddeclue]

16. Actually I'm raining on some people who are raining on Michelle Obama's parade

by complaining about her dress.

Thanks for the magic decoder ring though.

[ddeclue]

11. Sorry but that's a new acronym to me..

YMMY? :shrug:

I fail to see what someone wears to an event adds or detracts from the acts which brought them there be it Hollywood or Washington.

Doug D.

[orleans]

32. yeah, i really don't give a shit about fashion either

but wasn't that dress on michelle simply amazing? she looked like a fairy princess!

[ddeclue]

33. My real concern was that people were dumping on her dress here when it was such a subjective and

trivial matter.

Doug D.

[orleans]

35. oh. if it was about tonight's dress i'm glad i missed those threads.

in the meantime...i just have to post this:

[struggle4progress]

48. That is one fine-looking dress! Of course, it really isn't very important,

and I personally would have just as much admiration and respect for her if she had decided to wear blue-jeans instead. And of course I hope DUers will usually focus mainly on more substantive matters. But the lady looks great in that dress! :bounce: You go, girl!

[cali]

47. grab a clue and stop being hypocritical

it's no more inegalitarian than critiquing film or other visual arts. Just because YOU don't get why fashion is an art, doesn't mean that it's not. Why do you think there are collections in museums? Fashion is indeed an art.

[BlooInBloo]

8. Just so he or she could express his or her poutrage.

[ddeclue]

13. Actually my point is I could care LESS about the fashion police

who feel it necessary to dis' Michelle Obama's dress...

what does it really matter anyways? why do the fashion police feel a need to complain about it?

Actually you've got the wrong person this time bloo-bloo.

Doug D.

[BlooInBloo]

17. Actually, you have no point.

[ddeclue]

19. Thanks for sharing Bloo-bloo.. you are a contrarian who lives to dump on other people's threads.

That is all.

Doug D.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Not everyone's.

[ddeclue]

22. Whatever - you're just annoying, not right.

go play somewhere else already.

[K8-EEE]

38. To show he's better than those of us who

want to see Michelle's dress?

(yawn)

SHE LOOKS GORGEOUS!

[ddeclue]

41. I think her dress looks fine but I don't see the need to make

any big deal about it and I CERTAINLY don't see the need to criticize it.

We're here to swear in a President tonight not to play my clothes are more expensive than yours.

[K8-EEE]

44. Right, so , skip those parts....anybody else sick of the endless

Lectures From the Self-Appointed Principals on DU?

Jesus! It's night like I LOVE EVERYTHING POSTED HERE.....nobody does, but those of us who like to comment on election fashion shouldn't be lectured to. It's part of the event.

[ddeclue]

45. A very trivial part of the event - you should keep some perspective.

:eyes:

[xultar]

2. Consider yourself superior, collect $200, and pass go.

[donheld]

5. Ditto

[WinkyDink]

6. So you have limited interests!

[ddeclue]

14. I have varied interests - I find fashion frivolous.

Doug D.

[Justitia]

21. just curious - do you like sports? -eom

[ddeclue]

24. Some things but I'm not one of those guys who orders ever sports channel on cable..

I follow my college basketball and football teams - Georgia Tech.

I follow the Atlanta Braves.

I will watch the Olympics.

I will watch some College Bowl games and the NCAA Basketball tournament.

I will watch the World Series.

I sometimes watch ultimate fighting or a boxing match.

I have gone to a few Braves games and a few Marlins games.

I could care less about NASCAR, Hockey, Pro Basketball, Pro Football, Tennis, Golf, and most anything else you could think of in sports.

Doug D.

[Justitia]

25. See, I find sports completely frivolous - why does it have a segment EVERY NIGHT on the news? -eom

[ddeclue]

26. I would agree with you.. It isn't really news..it belongs on a sports channel

There may be some things sports related which are news if a sports figure dies or gets a big contract or something but who wins and loses really isn't "news". ESPN is where it belongs. I'd rather have more hard news and less sports "news".

In this case about fashion, I find it particularly annoying to attack people for the clothes they are wearing.

Doug D.

[KittyWampus]

7. So don't read threads about it.

[ddeclue]

15. It's enough for me to see titles complaining about Michelle Obama's dress

for me to want to write this one.

[Raine]

10. So you had to start a whole

thread about how much more superiour you are cause you're not interested in the petty stuff that some of us are ...:boring:

[ddeclue]

18. Welcome to the first amendment....

Why is it important to complain about what dress Michelle Obama wears?

:shrug:

That's the essence of my point.

[BeyondGeography]

23. Me neither

K&R

[emilyg]

27. Include me - K&R

[fadedrose]

28. She's a natural girl and I want them to leave her alone

so that she doesn't change. Michelle is so lovable...

[applegrove]

29. Sometimes how a dress is cut is art. The color in the fabric is art.

It is very pleasing to look at and I comment because I enjoy it.

[ddeclue]

31. And LIKE art, one man's treasure is another man's trash -

there is no objective "good" vs. "bad" in either "art" or "fashion" for my money.

It's all a subjective matter of opinion and so what's the point in slamming someone for their outfit when it's by far the most trivial aspect of the whole inauguration?

If the fashionatti wants to go after one another at some New York or Milan fashion show, fine but it has NO relevance to films being judged or politicans being elected. It's trivial and distracting.

[applegrove]

34. I agree that the discussion of the fashion is fluff. I love Michelle Obama's dress by the way.

It is something that excites me a little. So I fluff up the conversation - so what? It doesn't all have to be hard news today. Surely if some women are hooked on the greatness of the day by the dress Obama wears than so much the better. At least fashion people can participate in the whole inargural thingy. And least they are hooked in somehow to the importance of the day.

[ddeclue]

42. Yeah but WHY is it necessary to slam what people wear?

THAT's where I get annoyed. It is such a superficial aspect of EITHER the inauguration OR the Oscars.

Let people be happy and leave'm alone if you can't say something nice about what they are wearing.

:eyes:

[applegrove]

43. I sometimes can be critical. I come by it honestly by my parents who both were.

It is unproductive and I try not to be that way. I rarely am. But sometimes something critical slips through. I agree that the question should be "why not remain silent when you only have something critical to say?".

[RandomKoolzip]

30. I'm with you - I give nary a shit about fashion.

I still have no idea why so many people are obsessed with surfaces. I think people these days have to start doing more acid.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

36. I love the fashion and I loved the music too!

[K8-EEE]

37. I got the fashion obsession!

At least, a couple of nights ouf of the year.....Oscar night....inauguration (that's every FOUR years!)

IMO! Michelle wins for evening, 2nd lady comes in first for daytime......and there are NO scolding Debbie Downer posts here or anywhere who can take the smile off my face today!

[ddeclue]

40. as long as you aren't dumping on someone's freedom of sartorial expression

then knock yourself out.

Doug D.

[Radical Activist]

39. Likewise. Superficial bullshit.

Completely boring.

[progressoid]

46. Double ditto.

[pam4water]

49. Honestly the Media has forgotten how to report.