Samantha Cameron - words fail me

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Why has she dressed so badly for this US trip? From the old mac she wrapped round her at the airport to the utterly hideous curtain she appears to be wearing at the state banquet tonight. I am embarrassed for her. Michelle Obama may be twice her size but she is ten-times better dressed.

I don't like the tight cardies on MO. I always think she looks like Persephone Brown in the Wishing Moon in them.

I get what she is trying to do with the cardies, and I can quite see why she doesn't want to wear a suit all the time Bonsoir..but I am just not sure they flatter her. I think she looks better in casual sweater tbh.

It is pretty depressing that we have reached a point in our politics where women are the frocks that accompany male politicians. It didn't used to happen that the wives of PMs were taken apart for their dress sense like this. It's bad enough that it happens to American "first ladies," but at least that is a long-standing convention there that has its origin in the quasi-monarchic symbolic status of the presidency, making it inevitable that a certain amount of fluff should stick to his family.

In the UK it is new and horrible. I don't mean this thread in particular. I mean the whole media culture.

Bonsoir Me too. One would think it would be difficult for her to get it wrong, given she's tall. slim, has lovely colouring and is good looking.

Quite Lizzylou . I am not sure I would carry off the first lady bit well....people might be a bit about my seating plan when they realised I had sat myself at a table surrounded by hotties a la some sort of female Hugh Heffner. And miles away from the top table so we could carouse and a have a proper laugh without all that stultifying speech stuff.....

There has to be a perk of the job surely?
Setting yourself for mn worldwide scrutiny, you deserve to choose some good eyecandy to be seated with!

Aren't we all being a bit sexist here? I know this is the S&B section so fashion is what's talked about, but SC never set herself up as a fashion icon - she just happened to marry to PM-to-be.

When Thatcher was PM, did her H get judged on his outfits? If the US ever gets a female president, will the 'first man' be scrutinised for his suitability as arm candy?

When I look at the latest pics the first thing I notice is the lack of style and imagination of DCs suit and his awful haircut.

She's never had any taste in men or clothes as far as I know.

Terrible blue dress thing. Michelle O looked magnificent.

Yes well it goes without saying that DC looks a tw*t. The mens' clothes are boring to talk about though.

I think Sam is pretty and she might be a nice person but her dress sense is just not good.

You know what, I liked SCs blue dress, fwiw. thought MO wasn't very current although it did have the glitz factor. But SC isn't about glitz, she's going for understated, sometimes she gets it right, sometimes a near miss. Hair up with that neckline would have transformed it...

Agree that she looks cowed and like she'd rather be somewhere else much of the time... But then I think, she lost her son less than three years ago, shortly after which her husband got the top job and she was thrust into the spotlight, possibly at the expense of her own career and almost certainly at the expense of time with her other children and her and her family are the subject of endless criticism about all manner of things. And we criticise her for a lack of confidence and joie de vivre?

I think she's doing bloody well in the circumstances, I probably wouldn't want to leave the house, never mind hiding behind a fringe...

I say 'remember Cherie' and lay off...

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Issima! Think I may have a thousand few more miles to run before I look hot enough for Idris in any of those outfits!

Of course it's not sexist. What, after all, could we say about the men?

Nice navy suit there on Dave/Ed/Dave/George/Barack/Nicolas/Vlad/Silvio?

(I do find myself wondering just how many of those jackets Angela Merkel has got though)

That scary financial woman always looks very classy.

Bucharest I just generally find it sad that women are judged (often by other women) very harshly on what they wear - whether they 'chose' to be in the spotlight or not. Maybe that's not a subject for S&B though. I will bugger off and stop pissing on the thread now

I'm not judging her at all. I'm judging the DRESS. I think that's the difference iyswim.

I wouldn't dream of judging a person I do not know. But I will judge the thing she is wearing, I hope that's Ok. That's all it's about and therefore if she really likes it it shouldn't bother her too much. She won't care what I think.

@issimma. That's probably it.

I mean Mo Mowlam? (RIP great one)

she dressed like my old English teacher, but as a human being, I was awestruck by her.

As I said, I can judge the clothes and think them hideous or whatever but it doesn't mean the person is not worthy of respect/admiration/kindness.

I wouldn't go up to her and say 'Oy, that frock is terrible'. But saying it on here is meaningless to her.

Actually she did have the look to me of someone who is still grieving, really being forced to find things exciting and interesting when you feel like you will never be happy again. I can't stand DC and his policies, but because they dont talk about their grief much we can think they have got over it. Just saying

'Agree that she looks cowed and like she'd rather be somewhere else much of the time... But then I think, she lost her son less than three years ago, shortly after which her husband got the top job and she was thrust into the spotlight, possibly at the expense of her own career and almost certainly at the expense of time with her other children and her and her family are the subject of endless criticism about all manner of things. And we criticise her for a lack of confidence and joie de vivre?

I think she's doing bloody well in the circumstances, I probably wouldn't want to leave the house, never mind hiding behind a fringe...'

All of that. I'd never criticise her for anything personal as I know absolutely nothing about her. A dress is a dress is a dress. Some of the best people wear dreadful clothes.

Well, I am glad that my DH doesn't have a job that means people judge ME on my clothes. Because I wouldn't come off well, and I would resent it.

Can I please be changed into Elizabeth McGovern whoever she is? She looks stunning on the pictures.

All Sam Cam needs, whether we like her clothes or not, is some attitude. Chest out, chin up, arse in. Look us in the eye woman. She needs to own it.

Well said JaneB1rkin, you are lovely sorry.

I too have been pondering over the sartorial disaster that is Sam Cam.

I think her clothes wear her, rather than the other way round.

She's tall and slim, it shouldn't be so hard to find clothes that suit her.

Michelle Obama, on the other hand, manages to look great, despite her fairly hefty proportions.