It may be Oscar De La Renta but on Laura it looks like Oscar De La Crap

First thing I thought when I saw that picture was Laura's boobs were hanging pretty low. Then I realized it was a short jacket, which does absolutely nothing to flatter her figure



And seriously, does the Queen look annoyed standing between those 2 plaster faces? Laura needs to back off of the botox - her face is in permament joker mode

(oh dear)

or Elizabeth?

able to get his pants altered. He's a disgrace.

Never know when good may strike and he will have to rush to fight it.

Is he wearing fucking cowboy boots? Either that or he's got a ankle holster on his left leg. They are embarrassments and stereotypical "Ugly Americans."

I know the wearer is.

But doesn't that look lop-sided?

And I'll wager that he's wearing his cowboy boots too.

Guess he didn't spend all that much time with the tailor. :shrug:

:wtf: is up with that? She looks wild eyed crazy.

George Bush and Jim Robinson were sitting in a bar drinking beers and watching the news. Up comes a piece about a woman threatening to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge.

RimJob bets Shrub five dollars she'll jump. Shrub takes the bet.

Five minutes later, she jumped. Shrub pulled out his wallet and handed $5 to RimJob.

RimJob handed the money back. "I can't take this money from you, Mr. President. I saw this same piece on the five o'clock news."

Shrub said, "I did too; I didn't think she'd be stupid enough to try it twice."

That picture makes me laugh so much. Mrs. Bush looks like something is seriously wrong with her. That is a terrible picture.

Bush standing there like he has a corn cob shoved up his ass.

Laura, in that hideous dress -- and what is that stain on it? Did she eat Kentucky Fried and wipe her hands on her skirt before meeting the Queen?

They are both a disgrace to America.

Oscar De La Hoya...the boxer

he will ever spend in the WH? I saw that damn flag pin and it really pissed me off! What an ass he is!

And as long as I am nitpicking .... where the hell are Laura's gloves? She used to know how to dress for a white tie affair (and she obviously stopped him from wearing that damn pin back then too) ...



she must have made a deal with him ... wear the monkey suit and you can wear your pin on it ...

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I appreciate the concept of wearing white gloves but geez, she looks like the hotel maid with that outfit.

She went to dinner with the gloves she had rather than the gloves she wanted. :rofl:

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A pale blue more suitable to hideous bridesmaids' dresses.

But the blue one has 3/4 sleeves--which would have gone well with gloves.

Queenie is staring at the dress shaped hole on the hall's curtains, while Laura is wondering about how house coat made from the rug she's standing on would look.

A perfectly understanable feeling.
That's how I'd feel standing between the two of them

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Those shot glasses are mighty heavy!

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I don't know, she just does.

I don't even want to imagine what Laura will be wearing in 30 years but I wish it was prison stripes

I saw the smaller photo above and thought someone had photoshopped a powder-blue badmiton birdie over Laura's lower half.

Wondeful scowl on Lizzy, though. No need to say who it's directed at.

is the one who designed Lynne Cheney's dress.

Did you see that green thing she was wearing? :rofl:

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It's such an "old lady" thing to carry--huuuge. And yet silver, to fit the formal occasion.
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Sigh...just daydreaming that at some point when the photogs weren't around, she hauled off and smacked Dumbya with it a la Ruth Buzzi's old lady character on Laugh In (am I dating myself with that reference???)

Great. Having dinner with the queen and his clothes don't fit. Wonder whose trousers they are.

That's also one hell of an unflattering dress on Laura. Couldn't get a lasso around those hips.

Notice that W. and Laura are the only ones smiling in the photo?

him wear them

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Ol George is lettin' a freddy

pantaloons need a little tailoring help, is that he is standing a halfstep in front of everyone else. It was important to him, whether conciously or subconciously, to ensure he was "in front", rather than on equal footing. He appears as well, to make sure he blocked, however slightly, Liz from moving up to a position that would be a tad more traditional for the circumstance...

You beat me to it.

That is his way of telling the Queen, "I am the leader of the world, and more important than you will ever be."

He really has a thing with his importance.

fear that he might be viewed as a failure...(like THAT would ever happen...:eyes: ).

I think he's a mysoginist, and perhaps prone to spousal abuse; he certainly doesn't seem to worry about abusing people, I think he'd hurt those he should be closest to.

It is a childish position he is taking in that pic, but recalling the lunch where he called out, "Hey Blair", I doubt it. Seems like he has a real knack for doing things in poor taste and w/o any thought...

That is really awful. Color, fit...everything.

but it's just not for Laura. Her colors she should be wearing warmer, earth-tone colors. Her body frame should NOT have a short bolero jacket that says "I have no waist".

The dress is not made for her body style. Perhaps someone a few pounds lighter or perhaps a few inches taller might look good in that dress. I have a feeling that if you ditched the bolero jacket and changed the color to something like a moss green or muted bronze and that dress might actually look pretty good on her.

blue in the photo. Aqua is big this year, after all. If it were aqua, a light blue-green, it probably looks better in person than in a photo. I'm one of those who usually looks best in warm colors, but aqua, turquoise and teal (dark turquoise)look good on me. Perhaps Laura is the same.

The dress probably would look better with a longer, slightly fitted,jacket similarly trimmed. It would hide the heavy top and provide a smoother transition to the hips.

The dress itself is beautiful. It would look better on someone with a longer waist and somewhat less pronounced hips. A couple of inches in height wouldn't hurt, either.

whoever fitted her for the dress should have made some, er...allowances

Laura, take off the damn jacket. It would have created a much needed long slim look.

Laura's dress makes her look like a bullfighting mermaid. :D

just below her left hand.

There was the original sketch of this in the WaPo a day or two before the event. On a taller, less short-waisted woman, this is a beautiful dress. But when there is no incurving space between the bottom of a short jacket and the start of the hip, one looks shorter and dumpier than one is. Also with that hip shape swelling, going in, and then flowing out in the skirt, it is emphasizing the widest part of her body. I'm surprised Mr. De la Renta let her choose this as it doesn't do anything for either's reputation.

Mr. Bush needs to stop fantasizing about his in-seam measurements. If you'll notice Prince Philip's pants are fuller in this area, not pulling the way Little Boot's is. Also, between the rippling at the ankles and the droopiness in the crotch, he looks like he borrowed the pants of somebody much taller. Do you suppose he spilled something (Jim Beam) and there's a parking valet going pantless somewhere at the White House?

My only complaint about the Queen is that I would have worn a tiara with colored stones mixed among the diamonds -- maybe sapphires -- to show up better against her hair.

Oscar de la Renta is a master at dress designing but I'm not sure who or what decided that this particular dress would look good on Laura. Light blue does not look good with Laura's hair and skin tones (I saw a maroon dress posted here and if it wasn't for the oversized gloves the color looked great on laura). Plus that jacket does absolutely nothing for non-waisted gals like Laura (and yes, myself - I would never wear a bolero, neither should Jennifer Hudson at the Oscars.)


I truly believe that the dress is beautiful but just wrong for Laura

but you have to sign up to view the Wapo site and that's against my principles. I should also mention that I'm short-waisted myself (which seems politer than 'low-boobed') and bolero jackets look like dinner jackets on me.

Not made for her body type.

I could look better in toilet paper and plastic bags than Laura looks in that dress.....

the dress is fucking awful and his tux does`t fit,hell i think he rented it...

I watched ABC Good Morning America the morning of the dinner and saw Robin Roberts just about go crazy about the design of the dress. First, when I saw the design I knew the design was not that original in that I had wore a gown similar to that design. It was not by a big time designer. It was one from the Wal-Mart design books. If you go to the fabrics department of your local Wal-Mart you can find a design very similar to the one worn by Mrs. Laura Bush. In addition, when Hillary Clinton was the first lady she wore a gown that was similar to the design worn by Mrs. Bush at the dinner. I am not jealous, but I truly think my dress and Hillary Clinton's dress looked so much better than Mrs. Bush's dress. When I actually saw the dress for the first time my first thought was that it did not look all that great. After seeing it a second time I thought it was okay, but I never thought it was the great beautiful dress that Robin Roberts advertised it to be.

and very very talented to boot.

I'm guessing she saw the drawing of the dress, done on a figure that was probably about a size 2-4 and she assumed it would translate to her body - which is not a size 2-4.

The dress is beautiful, it's just not a color or shape that compliments Laura

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was saying that I had worn a dress that was similar to the one worn by Mrs. Bush and the dress that I wore was not by a major designer. I knew the dress was by Oscar De La Renta. I just thought the dress was not very pretty. I thought the dress I wore, which as far as I knew was not by a major designer, looked better than the dress worn by Mrs. Bush.

I will say I am upset that Oscar De La Renta did not make a better dress for Mrs. Bush considering who she is and the event she was attending. I think he should have tried to make a better more original dress for Mrs. Bush and the Occasion.

it looks more like Oscar de la Yenta.

What a bloody joke.

why does it seem impossible for Dubya to find/wear pants that actually fit? Supposedly he spent a lot of money on hand-tailored Brooks Brothers suits a few years ago but you'd never be able to tell it by the way his pantlegs always seem to be a couple of inches too long.

to show any skin. She always wears those stupid little jackets that would on another woman look fine. The other thing is the look on the queen's face, sheer disgust. Look a chimp in a monkey suit.

What a difference that color change would have made! To me, this is still one of her better gowns.

It's just not a very flattering gown on her.

a step back, idiot."

It looks like the dressmaker ran out of material before he finished the sleeves on Pickles' jacket. That length is ridiculous on a formal gown. More appropriate for rolling up your sleeves on the pig farm.

And that does look like several greasy stains on the dress.

The whole thing looks like a mother-of-the-bride outfit gone horribly wrong.

For a second I thought she was having some particularly serious sagging issues.

Wish she'd have a garage sale once in awhile . . . or castle sale . . . whatever.

is to have a book.

Queen's Jewels by Vincent Meylan is very good. He's done a biography of QE II and had access to some of her pieces. Did you know she holds one of the largest collections of Faberge outside of Russia? There's this one parure of amethysts that I'd tunnel from Maryland into Buckingham Palace for (I'm not sure if the picture of it is in this particular book or not).

is to have a book.

Queen's Jewels by Vincent Meylan is very good. He's done a biography of QE II and had access to some of her pieces. Did you know she holds one of the largest collections of Faberge outside of Russia? There's this one parure of amethysts and diamonds that I'd tunnel from Maryland into Buckingham Palace for (I'm not sure if the picture of it is in this particular book or not).


Sorry for the double post -- must learn patience....

of the jewels!

...and it looks like she's trying to stab the Queen's leg with her pleat.

She doesn't add all the bling though.

beanbag love seat

Why does she have a boxer designing her clothes? A plumber would probably do a better job.

All that money and no taste.

All that money and no taste.

Let's see, George:

first, you said I was 252 years old...

then you're standing in FRONT of me--you sorry asshole, isn't Britain the last country left in your "coalition of the willing"?

and finally, you showed up at a White Tie Dinner in cowboy boots.