FLOTUS Friday: Old Oppressive White Guys Strike Again.

Consider this your official fall fashion alert: plaid is back.

Specifically, Glen plaid.

I only mention this because you know how the PC (Perpetually Cis-ed off) crowd behind the #metoo movement hate that women have culturally appropriated the fashion of old white guys. I mean, could there be a more quintessentially male fabric than Saville Rowe’s Glen plaid?

                                   

Worn by every old white guy ever known, from Cary Grant in North by Northwest

to Sean Connery’s and Daniel Craig’s uber-macho James Bond.

And then along came women like Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner, appropriating the heck out of it.

- to the point that menswear in general and glen plaid in particular became a women’s fashion classic.

       1970’s Vogue fashion shoot  

It’s classic status was demonstrated by Stacey Dash’s and Alicia Silverstone’s characters, Dionne and Cher, in 1995’s Clueless:

Dionne and Cher talking to each other on their cell phones: classic scene in classic Glen plaid outfits

Yet somehow I expect that all you’ll hear from the fashion mavens this time around is how much Melania’s  Glen Plaid Halloween coat cost.

($3,950, by Bottega Veneta)

And how inappropriate it is, because of it’s old oppressive white guys heritage. Doesn’t it look great?!