Interesting detail: When a First Lady travels solo, her tarmac arrival is traditionally closed to press, writes @emilyaheil.
But last wk, @FLOTUS invited pool cameras to cover her on the tarmac. Thereby guaranteeing you’d see her jacket.
Link to WaPo article in the tweet ->
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-didnt-someone-stop-melania-trump-from-wearing-that-jacket-thats-not-how-this-white-house-works/2018/06/22/9d6a43a0-7640-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.271046852578
Snips from WaPo article:
And she often selects her clothing without assistance, relying less on stylists and personal shoppers than on her own taste. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, told The Washington Post’s fashion critic, Robin Givhan, in December that the first lady “chooses what she likes and what is appropriate for the occasion. She does not worry about her critics.”
First ladies’ sartorial choices are seldom made on the fly. For trips, particularly those abroad, the first lady’s staff typically prepares a “wardrobe memo” as part of her schedule, McBride said. The memo notes the events she will be attending, along with all kinds of factors that might dictate fashion choices, from weather to the terrain she will be walking on to matters of protocol, such as whether particular colors carry symbolism in a culture.
But Mrs. Trump’s declaration was, perhaps, more intentional. One former White House aide who worked with top officials in both the Obama and Clinton administrations noted that the fact that cameras captured Mrs. Trump boarding the plane at all was unusual. When the first lady travels alone from Washington, her tarmac arrival is traditionally closed to the media, so the decision to allow Mrs. Trump to be photographed seemed deliberate.
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