We need to talk about Melania Trump's Out of Africa wardrobe
The colonial pith helmet, the movie-Nazi fedora and whites … and the first lady wants us to take her seriously?Ooh, it’s a tricky one, isn’t it? On the one hand, seriously, is that woman actually wearing a PITH HELMET in Nairobi? And, on the other, are we being unfeminist talking about it? Where is Andrea Dworkin when you need her, or maybe just Emily Post? Let’s hear from Trump herself, as she gave a marvellously huffy TV interview about this very subject when she was in Egypt last week:
“I want to talk about my trip, not what I wear. That’s very important, what I do, what we’re doing with US aid, what I do with my initiatives, and I wish people would focus on what I do, not what I wear,” she harrumphed. And yet, her words might have had more impact if she hadn’t said them while dressed like Belloq the Nazi collaborator from the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark. I’m sorry, Melania, it’s just really hard to listen to a woman when she’s wearing the clothes of one of the most famous fictional Nazi collaborators of all time. Call me crazy!
Yes, aid is important. But what is Melania Trump doing with the US Agency for International Development (USAid)? Last time I checked, the Trump administration – which she is there to represent – tried to slash its funding by almost a third in the president’s first two budgets. Of course, anyone who asked her about that was promptly shut down, as Time magazine reported, because, it turned out in an amazing plot twist, Melania did not want to talk about US aid either.
So, given that we have now followed Trump’s instructions and thoroughly discussed what she is doing with USAid and her programme, let’s take a look at her damn clothes. Now, first of all, you cannot be all, “Oh, for heaven’s sake, stop paying attention to my clothes, you shallow fools” when you are wearing a pith helmet. A PITH HELMET. To recap, on her trip to Egypt she was dressed in a ludicrous outfit of cream trousers, white shirt, black neck tie and white fedora that was, as the entire internet instantly pointed out, three-quarters Belloq and one-quarter Michael Jackson. Then, in Nairobi, she wore safari trousers, brown boots over her trousers, a white shirt and that helmet (seriously, where does one even buy a pith helmet these days? White Saviours R Us?) So, in other words, for her trip to Africa, Trump’s mood board ran from movie Nazi collaborator to old-timey colonialist. Really, she makes it look so effortless.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/10/talk-about-melania-trump-africa-wardrobe-pith-helmet-nazi
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her clothing choices if it wasn't for this outfit.
when she was in the hospital for her "kidney problems"? She's the only human being I know of whose kidneys are located on her face. When she returned from her lengthy hospital stay (at what expense to the taxpayers?) the skin on her face was much tighter, her lips more full, and for some odd reason her breast size also increased from this "kidney procedure". 
Malania's entire adult life has been form over function. She isn't known for her cerebral endeavors, and I wasn't aware she had "initiatives" as "first lady". "Be Best"? 
Her trip to Africa is nothing more than an escape from her sexual predator husband.
Yeah, "don't look at my clothes". She's been nothing but a gold digging affectation for wealthy men since the day she left Slovenia. There is no "real" Malania Trump. She exists only on the pages of fashion magazines and gossip tabloids.
All form. No function.
