Friday, May 14, 2021

The Return of Fashion Friday

I got an email last week from a longtime reader who said she really missed the fashion commentary MOTUS used to provide. So today I’m resurrecting the Mirror’s original focus for a special Fashion Friday edition.

We begin with this fashion shot from West Virginia of Dr. Jilly with U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and his wife, Gayle, Jennifer Garner and some other dude with good hair

First thing you’ll notice - because we’ve been trained to notice it over the past year - is that they’re all facemask-free. That’s because Dr. Fauci was on CNN simultaneously granting fully vaccinated people a special dispensation from wearing them, indoors and outdoors! Thank you Dr. Fauci!

Still, there are rules:

Vaccinated? CDC says it's OK to ditch masks. But it's not OK to harass people wearing them.

The CDC eased mask guidance but didn't say you shouldn’t wear a mask, can't wear one or are entitled to mouth off about other people’s masks. 

Funny how that works, it’s NOT okay to “mouth off about other people wearing masks” but just last week it was perfectly acceptable to mouth off about people NOT wearing masks.” I just can’t keep up.

But back to our fashion blogging: Ms. Garner accompanied Dr. Jilly on a vaccine promoting appearance at the clinic set up at her hometown high school. I’d like to compliment Jennifer on her professional appearance, although the glasses might have been a bit over the top.

Wait, what? Is that actually a “Redskins” banner on the wall! How have they not been canceled? Or at least defunded?

Likewise professionally turned out was Gayle Manchin, former president of the West Virginia Board of Education and former state Secretary for Education and the Arts, who wore a simple blue dress. Standing out from the rest of the field – a trick she learned while serving as Lady-in-Waiting to then FLOTUS Michelle Obama – was Dr. Jilly Biden. A vision of loveliness and froth in her youthful, flippy-skirted ill-fitted white frock topped with a wrinkly ill-fitting pink blazer and an endless strand of pearls.

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The pink blazer came with its own matching pink face diaper, a must-have fashion accessory up until yesterday. Dr. Jill wore it upon her departure for West Virginia, before having received the holy dispensation from St. Fauci.

And that’s all I’ve got, It seems I’ve grown a little rusty in the fashion-reporting department. I might have to take a refresher course in order to reestablish my full fashion-blogger creds.

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Until then I’ll simply bid adieu to our current FLOTUS-INO, may she always be Forever 21. Even if she is turning 70 in a few weeks.

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