January 10, 2015
De Blasio's wife did not wear blue jeans to the slain policeman's funeral.
She wore degradé blue trousers, and the degradé effect looks like faded denim. There were lots of angry tweets about her disrespectful appearance, presumably from people who don't know enough about degradé, but approximately no one does. If appearance is what matters and no one can figure out that you're not wearing blue jeans, it's the same as wearing blue jeans.
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Michelle Obama has made fashion faux pas too -- like the blood spattered butcher's apron she wore on 2008 election night.
They looked exactly like blue jeans. She knew that when she put them on.
She wore degradé blue trousers
Faded blue is not somber despite the designer's insistence. The Mayor's wife (I forget her name) degraded the service in any case. Hard to walk that back.
It is significant that the designer stepped forward to take credit, just like the comet landing fiasco. They never need defend their work (rightly so); the criticism is always the occasion.
The effect achieved is like the name of The Moody Blues' song misinterpreted as "Knights In White Satin."
I don't care what you call them. She was dressed very inappropriately for a funeral.
Then again lefties are likely to go for comfort before tradition. Or more likely she doe not know better.
Every professional woman has a set of charcoal grey gear. with pearls
This is the fashion equivalent of, "Candy, check the transcript."
Ah you see, the pants were not made of denim!
All the better to show her ass to the cops.
Turnabout is fair play, right?
Why? Why wear what look like blue jeans to a funeral? Obviously to make a point.
So, pants that are designed to look like jeans and are priced like standard off-the-rack dress trousers (about the same as jeans worn by the somewhat frugal fashion conscious.) I don't get it. Is it supposed to be ironic? Some sort of in joke?
And yes, everyone should have a black suit in the back of the closet. Doesn't matter if it's cheap or fits particularly well. There are times when it is the right tool for the job. This was one of those times.
"Declasse" is the term that should apply to her entire "ensemble."
"Does it put us on the slippery slope of personality erasure, as it could mean all public figures live in such fear of mistaken sartorial semiology, they resort to only the blandest styles, and we find ourselves in a uniform world of plain dark suits?"
The dreaded personality erasure! Quelle horreur!
There was a time when only black or charcoal gray were worn to funerals, as a fitting expression of the somberness of the occasion. I'm not sure why this pundit thinks people need to "express their personality" at a funeral, but I suspect it has something to do with the childish concept of "authenticity".
If the response is, "Hey, it's okay -- it's degradé!", perhaps the De Blasios aren't quite the populist heros they're made out to be.
FWIW, I once was fluent in French (very rusty now), and I had to look up "degradé" in my French dictionary.
These people are antipolice and do not care who knows it. DeBlasio ran against the cops in the election and was elected by the wealthy who think a peaceful city is a civil right. They don't know any better.
Orwell did:
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
I know it was a paraphrase of his writing but he knew it.
Bob R "Is it supposed to be ironic? Some sort of in joke?"
Not necessarily. I yield to no one in my contempt for De Blasio and all similar leftists, but this sort of sartorial cluelessness is very common. About half the people at my father's funeral wore jeans, dockers, colorful shirts, and assorted casualwear. Very few work black or charcoal or navy blue suits.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
So, Chirlane Mcray didn't wear blue jeans. She somehow managed to wear a designer outfit that was seen as inappropriate for the funeral of a slain cop by a sizable fraction of the public.
I'm sorry, but just how stupid does one have to be to pull that off? Who does she think she is --- a Hollywood starlet on the red carpet at the Oscars?
It seems that any way the De Blasio crew turns, its ass is behind it.
Assuming (even though it is obviously, by definition a mistake) that everybody is incapable of understanding what is and isn't correct about these pants. What a disappointment to see Meadehosue give up and say that everybody being wrong makes everybody correct.
Absurd.
Is there research that identifies how cognition changes as folks venture further into the golden years?
If it walks like a duck... which is what she looks like she's doing in the photo.
Biff said...
If the response is, "Hey, it's okay -- it's degradé!", perhaps the De Blasios aren't quite the populist heros they're made out to be.
FWIW, I once was fluent in French (very rusty now), and I had to look up "degradé" in my French dictionary.
1/10/15, 4:03 PM
When I Google it, the first definition is, "treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect." I assume it really is defining "degrade" and not "degradé" but I still thought it was funny.
She wore blue.
Judging by some of these photos I doubt she is particularly fashion conscious.
I'm suddenly reminded of zoolander and the deralicte campaign.
Perhaps WI folks who focus on fashion see themselves as anti-Geins. No Ed in em as it were.
The police who turned their backs on the Mayor provided a greater insult to the memory of the dead officers and to their families--and to themselves--than the Mayor or his wife has achieved...or intended.
Agree with Robert Cook. The intentional insult is worse than whatever faux pas the mayor's wife committed.
My guess is that she didn't intend disrespect, that she is so clueless that she thought designer (not)jeans are acceptable at a funeral.
In an earlier time, a Mayor and his spouse would look down on the benighted cops and their wives who didn't know what what to wear to a soiree or a funeral, and laugh behind their hands; sad, you know, but they just don't know better. Now it's the Mayor and his spouse who have no class. Sad, but they just don't know better.
You know, there was a time that I was proud of being a native New Yorker.
I am not a robot.
Disrespecting the office of mayor at a funeral is the bigger issue.
This is a fairly petty gripe. Did the family notice? I bet they saw the backs turned toward the casket.
Robert Cook
Actually you are quite wrong. The mayor believes that NY is mainly made up of people like you and so he thinks nothing about assuming everyone knows the cops are racist. He ran on that premise, he made up a story about telling his son to be careful with cops (you do know, I hope, that thst story was a lie, a lie on the back of his son), he flogged it for the whole time he has been in office. This kind of preening has consequences because, happily and alas, most people in NY do not in fact share your beliefs. And so he is getting only a sip of the medicine he doled out by the gallon. Our president has had to reckon with the results of his own loose and intemperate talk.
Robert Cook:
The cops who turned their backs on DeBlasio *were insulting DeBlasio*.
As he deserved to be insulted. As all of his supporters and apologists deserve to be insulted.
Yeah, while we are on it and honest, Michelle's big yellow bird at her first inauguration was déclassé, too.
http://bit.ly/1y4T717
We've been tumblin bumblin down ever since.
Everyone should insult politicians.
I think sometimes you have to consider the perception of what you are doing. She had to at least worry that people would *think* she was wearing jeans. Maybe in the greater scheme of things this is trivial but sometimes it is the attention - or lack thereof -- to such details that is most telling.
Wearing black or at least a dark color, in my mind, shows respect. You make the effort to wear clothing that is appropriate for the occasion. Her outfit - in my opinion - was too casual, especially for a mayor's wife.
one'll always find a stick to hit a dog
fab
Republicunt's dress hideously.
I'm one of those people who presumably "don't know enough about degradé." Indeed, before looking at this post, I'd never heard of it; after looking at the post, reading the linked article, and spending about 90 seconds googgling "degradé," I am now confident that I do indeed know "enough" about degradé.
Best I can tell it's a term used in English by fashion-conscious people who'd like to seem French, and because it's French and because this is fashion, we're supposed to understand that these clothes are intended to look old and degraded even when they're new.
And we're also supposed to applaud and think ourselves smarter now for knowing that.
Hey, my jeans aren't old, they're degradé. Clap for me, I'm a cool kid.
I don't much care what the NYC mayor's wife wears anywhere. But when she wears clothes that look old and degraded, she ought not be surprised if people also infer that she's contemptuous of all the rest of us who don't know enough about degradé.
NeoMarxist pols insulting the neoMarxist union members they enabled.
I respect the police but their work slowdown is despicable. Do your job or quit. Change the laws you don't like via the democratic process.
Every one in hard left nyc deserves each other.
And the woman who can't dress herself.
Oy, it looks worse in close up. I can't see how she wouldn't have noticed that it looked inappropriate. Either she really doesn't give a damn, or she has atrocious taste.
I don't think the DeBlasio's are wealthy, but they are not broke, either.
This is furtherance of my new pet theory. Gay male = fab, gay female = drab.
HEY-HEY!
HO-HO!
DEGRADE'
HAS GOT TO GO!
Ms. Whatever was thumbing her nose at the cops. People do it all the time.
Reading the libs' tut-tutting about the NYPD registering their disdain for Hizzoner Groundhog-Killer...
Republican Officeholder: Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism!
Democratic Officeholder: Lese Majeste!
The diBlasios could phuck up a one-car parade, AND HAVE!
NotquiteunBuckley said...Perhaps WI folks who focus on fashion see themselves as anti-Geins. No Ed in em as it were.
Ed Gein was Mr. fashion incarnate.
Some African American women don't look good in all-black or charcoal gray clothes. Perhaps the mayor's wife should have worn white to the funeral.
Police officer Wenjian Liu was born in China. Wiki on color in Chinese culture: "White is . . . the color of mourning. It is associated with death and is used predominantly in funerals in Chinese culture. Ancient Chinese people wore white clothes and hats only when they mourned for the dead."
- DEC (Jungle Trader)
"Degradé" is the same fabric treatment as "distressed", only with at least one extra zero attached at the end of the price.
Sort of like adding "and the horse you rode in on" to the end of a fashion statement.
A kilt is just a skirt with more fabric. Try to explain that to a traditionally turned out Scotsman though.
It's not a huge deal. But I hope the next time there's a big fancy dinner at Gracie Mansion, someone shows up dressed terribly inappropriately and says, "Sweat pants? These aren't sweats. They're designer athleté, you commoner.
I'll save my outrage. But you do have to be better aware of how you'll be presented, especially when your husband is under fire from that corner.
This is moronic. You are all idiots. They looked like pants to a nice suit to her.
Oh my--I learned something. Degraded blue pants are not blue jeans.
Mostly we call "degraded blue jeans" stone washed---I didn't know there was fancy French word for it. Pardon my bad--or else just take a hike. If it looks like faded blue jeans, it's faded blue jeans.
Hmm. Just figured that Degradé was a synonym for Ombré. In any event, didn't think that she was wearing jeans at the funeral.
The straws that people grasp at sometimes.
I wish I were Laslo.
If appearance is what matters
It does. The whole point of attending the funeral is kabuki theater.
and no one can figure out that you're not wearing blue jeans,
And they can't.
it's the same as wearing blue jeans.
Yup. And you'd think a politician's wife would know to wear a black dress to a funeral.
McCray has spent her life being transgressive. It's central to her identity. Her first thought is never "how can I make others comfortable." Her goal is to create discomfort. Not a bad goal under many circumstances but if you are the wife of the mayor, attending the funeral of an assassinated cop, continuing your pattern of causing discomfort is rude and disrespectful.
I just saw a pic of Walker's wife. OMG. I don't think I have ever saw her.
Total tub.
She was walking in her hideous dress, and all I could think of was Ricky Lake, working the runway, for The Hefty Hideaway in Hairspray!
Her name is Tonnette too-thats just wrong. Does she go by Toe for short?
Her head, neck, tits, midsection and legs all just mesh together in one lump of fat.
Not they will win, but you can be rest assured, anything about education or nutrition will never be mentioned in their admin.
She is a major fatty. And yes Michelle has a fat ass, but please!
Tonnette and Go Pats.
Our new repubican governor's wife is fab, natch. She and he would be considered liberal dems in all other states.
Check out Linda Baker, our new republican first lady.
Thin, gorgeous, fab, and impeccably dressed!
Clothes make a statement. A non discript black outfit would not draw attention to the Mayors wife. We all know the Mayors wife was the center of the purpose for the funeral of an assassinated police officer.
Sad that people dont understand the world operates
Elle est Degradé.
I am Laslo.
What is your feeling about the 2024 Olympic Thing, M Le T(é)ton.
LOL, Be
David nails it; Titus fails it.
There is a difference between Submission and Degradation. I'd love to submit though not degrade me to El Ombre Laslo.
As MLK day approaches, person should not be judged by the color of their jeans...the length maybe, but she has a dream that someday that only
the character in the slacks will be judged.
I don't think anyone would have noticed if the cops liked the mayor. As it is, not just the cops but those who like the cops more than they like the mayor will be alert to any breach of decorum or etiquette on the part of the mayor and his wife. And I think the mayor and his wife are susceptible to such breaches......Only a very klutzy politician picks a feud with the police. And consider that woman whom his wife chose as chief of staff. They're not very good at what they do.
If she was the idiot wife of some tiny town in upstate NY, then *maybe* we could pass this off as just parochial stupidity.
She is the wife of a mayor who's "domain" is (in population) about the size of Switzerland, Israel or Austria. Her husband regularly deals with people and leaders from *many* nations, and I'm fairly certain there is at least 2 people there who advise on protocol.
But either way, wearing a faded blue pantsuit thingy to a funeral? Shit, I've seen gang-banging hoodrats with more class.
Example #2: If you're a white Republican, don't say "niggardly."
No one cares about the real definition.
She didn't wear a dress, or at least a skirt, is the real point. A funeral does not call for a Casual-Friday outfit circa 1980s. It calls for at least M-R 1980s garb in terms of biz dress-up, though not the funeral attire actually called for (still) in that era. She is an Official's-adjunct, let's not forget.
Those are, I think, the points in the nutshell. Aren't they?
I sure hope the NYPD health care plan covers wahbulance transportation.
I am surprised she didn't wear a dress. Dark dresses are for funerals. But even here in the South, fewer people are wearing them.
No matter how fancy the name they settled on, there's nothing dressed up about that outfit. If she wasn't intentionally being disrespectful, then she doesn't know how to be respectful.
Everyone here is committing a microaggression. Stop applying your white standards for dress etiquette on this poor black woman.
B: "Everyone"
"Everyone" is an exaggeration.
The bottom line: You can do you own thing. You can be successful. But you can't always be successful doing your own thing--especially in a world with so many different cultures.
fuhgetaboutit.
trash dresses like trash.(shrugs his shoulders) What did you expect?
Union thugs are whining about what someone is wearing to a funeral while they are conducting tasteless and attention seeking protests of their own at funerals?? Further proof that the public sector unions are out of touch with the average citizen.
I really hope Scott Walker extends Act 10 to the police and firefighters in Wisconsin. Somebody needs to stand up to these unions and remind them that they work for us and not the other way around.
And you thought the De Blasio's had a bad last year...
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that Hizzoner Stuttering Fustercluck handles from here on out will be a landmine with the instructions in Cyrillic. Under the microscope like Carmelo Anthony he is.
I really hope Scott Walker extends Act 10 to the police and firefighters in Wisconsin.
How deft! Unfortunately (for you), DeBlasio's crudeness and ineptitude are by now beyond emulation or caricature.
Plus, Gov. Walker has more sense than to pile on Wisconsin's finest and then to side with arsonists and looters against them.
New Yorkers will long for the golden years of the Dinkins Administration.
New York Post will issue some of its best front pages ever.
I understand that Bjork helped her with her outfit. Snicker.
In the Autobiography of Malcom X he explains how white men sell Negroes outlandish shoes, which they couldn't sell to anyone else.
The trauma of actually being the mayor's wife is showing and it is not like interrupting white people at brunch, which is fun.
They weren't blue jeans! They were only made to LOOK like blue jeans!
Funeral attire? No. But especially not when your spouse is accused of not adequately supporting the deceased in his job and he died on the job!
(Does she really need this explained to her?)
eh, I think the purpose was to wear something that looked like jeans, wait for the uproar, then say "see, they aren't jeans, they're fancy pants that only look like jeans!, haters!"
About the equivalent of when my kids were young and play the "stop touching me!", "I;m not touching you" game.
childish
Titus said...
Republicunt's dress hideously.
Weak.
Up your game.
I find it offensive anytime a woman wears 100% polyester gaberdine elastic waistband pants regardless of color.
Titus, the idea that you have a six figure job with your putrescent grammar...! Be a dear fellow and have one of your cadre of dark-meat rough trade rape you to death while holding down your head in an unflushed toilet. It should be easy to arrange, just don't pay him.
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