Which Designer Will Dress Melania for the Inaugural Ball? — Page 4

This thread is a joke, right? Because it sure reads like one. WTF..you can't make this **** up. I just picture Petra and javero in the park sitting under a tree with a slew of fashion magazines pretend dressing their new live "Barbie" doll a.k.a. Melania.

LMFPRAO!!!!

CarlosAlberto,

US Textile & Apparel facts for 2014:

U.S. total exports: Increased by $592 million (3 percent) to $23.9 billion

U.S. general imports: Increased by $3.7 billion (3 percent) to $121.7 billion

That's a $97.8 billion trade deficit in this sector alone.

Source: United States International Trade Commission

It's widely held that the 3 necessities in life are food, shelter, and clothing. Perhaps you missed my earlier post in which I pointed out that the global fashion market is valued at $3 trillion with a "T". The bulk of that value comes on the supply side and from manufacturing which basically no longer exists in this nation as it's been off-shored to cheap labor dens with little regard for basic human rights.

Scores of other manufacturing jobs have left rural counties in the red states that overwhelmingly supported Trump after giving Obama a chance for two terms to stem the tide.

Don't mean to be flippant Don Carlos but perhaps you've forgotten to whom Melania is married and what he promised on the campaign trail with respect to the balance of trade. This is a big deal.

Petra,

I encourage you to download and review the Obama-Biden Transition Team Code of Ethics whenever you can. Trump is NOT required to produce one and most likely will not which is a shame.

Obama-Biden Transition Project Code of Ethical Conduct

Comparing the late Robert "Bobby" Kennedy to the Trump kids and Jared Kushner is a huge stretch. Bobby Kennedy was his brother's successful campaign manager, a naval reservist, and highly-regarded civil rights attorney before he was named US Attorney General. In fact, President John F Kennedy signed an executive order with the aim of providing guidance on ethical standards to government officials. The Trump kids and Ivanka's husband bring nothing to table apart from their names.

Updated On: 11/16/16 at 12:39 PM

Melancholia will likely be wearing pasties from the Gypsy Rose Lee collection accessorized with an M16 assault rifle and her green card stuffed into a diamond g-string.

God, this thread is grotesque.

javero and Petra -

There are people in this country living in fear since the election. From you, we get fashion reports.

You are the kind of people who would ask, "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

Both of you remind me of this wonderful comment by Molly Ivins, "If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day."

Both of you are Quislings!

A Director said: "javero and Petra -

You are the kind of people who would ask, "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

Both of you remind me of this wonderful comment by Molly Ivins, "If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day."

Both of you are Quislings!



" We lost, we have to put on our big boy pants and move on and deal with it. Life is not over, if it is for you, than you let them win. I for one refuse to wallow in self pity and rock back in forth crying in my bathtub. Life is too precious and too short.

Updated On: 11/18/16 at 02:23 PM

We lost, we have to put on our big boy pants and move on and deal with it. Life is not over, if it is for you, than you let them win. I for one refuse to wallow in self pity and rock back in forth crying in my bathtub. Life is too precious and too short.

How inspiring. And not the point. When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. Great. Except life didn't hand us lemons. It handed us a flaming bag of dogsh*t. And you're drinking it. We're not.

You are the kind of people who would ask, "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

Actually, to me, it's more akin to saying, "But you have to admit, Jeffrey Dahmer was pretty hot".

Personally, I'm wearing my big boy pants. The ones I wore when I marched in the protest in Chicago last weekend. I wasn't wallowing in pity or rocking and crying. I just don't happen to see anything to admire in this monstrous Last Family. I see their fashion as examples of What Not To Wear because I don't think ANYTHING about them should be admired or glorified in any way. Everything about them disgusts me. I feel the same way about the musicians being discussed to honor them by performing at the inauguration. Pretending a flaming bag of dogsh*t smoothie is a delicacy isn't an example of "moving on" or some show of superior maturity. I thought fooling people into admiring the Kardashians was the worst trick the entertainment industry pulled on this country, but that's nothing compared to this insanity.

It's grotesque.

javero - It's ironic you talk about cult or personality because you are the one who started this thread!

To be honest, I don't know enough about Melania Trump or her beliefs or politics to have a fair opinion of her. I don't care what dress she wears to the ball and I don't care if people want to discuss it.

HOWEVER, I think it's fair to say that 95% or more of the people involved in this website, be they writers, actors, photographers, journalists, actors or just theatre fans posting on the boards are strongly anti-Trump, and I can understand why. I am too. I think that starting a thread about such a flippant subject like this on a website like this is in rather poor taste given the reaction by most of the theatre community to Trump's election.

If everyone here is obviously anti-Trump, if everyone here is obviously horrified that the inauguration is even HAPPENING, why is anyone surprised that people have no interest in discussing what his wife is going to wear?

Of course the subject is perfectly fine to discuss if you have an interest in fashion for example, but there are other parts of the internet where you would undoubtedly find a far more receptive audience.

Inclusiveness and lack of censorship is wonderful, I just find it curious that anyone would want to discuss such a subject on a site where Trump's election has been received with extreme distaste based on a LACK of inclusiveness on the part of the man in question.

I'm not saying it's wrong to discuss it. I'm not condemning you for discussing it. I'm not saying that theatre people shouldn't discuss it. I just don't think it's the right topic of discussion to pick with this particular community at this time. By all means, go on, this conversation doesn't bother or offend me in any way, nor does Melania's choice of dress bother me. I just can't imagine why you would want to discuss it here. It's just an incredibly odd choice of audience for such a subject.

I don't think people here are seeking a space DEVOID of discussion about the president-elect at all. In fact many here are very vocal in their opposition of him.

They just certainly don't seem to be looking to have a casual chat about what his wife is wearing to his inauguration. And I have to side with them on that one. Mrs Trump's fashion sense is going to do little to wash away the aftertaste of her husband's abhorrent rise to power.