Op-Ed: Michelle O. Catches Flack, Wears All White at D-Day Ceremonies

Michelle Obama caught a lot of flack from various sources for wearing all white at the D-Day ceremonies in France. Too bad the fashion police aren’t up on their rules of etiquette.

Someone should really tell them that wearing all white at a funeral or memorial service is as respectful as wearing all black. But then in this day and age of ‘nothing goes’ when it comes to manners, and no one ever heard of Emily Post or Miss Manners. Forgotten are the once niceties of life, such as a man standing when a woman walks in the room or opening doors for women…thank you very much, Women’s Lib. You freed up moms to struggle with heavy doors by themselves while trying to navigate clunky strollers loaded with babies and their paraphernalia through them. Forget the fact that I think Obama has abominable taste in clothing (she'd probably do a fashion police hit job on my clothing choices, too), her all white outfit was perfectly acceptable when it comes to showing respect for the dead and reverence for the fallen. Surely more respectful than former Vice President Dick Cheney’s outlandishly rude and disrespectful wearing of an oversized quilted down overcoat at the same ceremony a few years back. Knowing how “loved and respected” he “isn’t” around the world, his ridiculous cover-up was more than likely to cover up his equally bulky flack jacket, or was to protect his pace-maker from errant or directed microwaves. Regardless of what Obama was wearing, at least she was able to stay awake through the D-Day observances.