Maria, Maria, what were you thinking? Pic

[partylessinOhio]

This was not classy.

Maria Shriver arrives at the funeral services for former
first lady Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas July 14, 2007.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Did you forget to show the other one when she put her jacket on?

:eyes:

[aikoaiko]

2. Who knew there were so many fashionistas on DU.

This was already covered in another thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1336641

[defendandprotect]

18. Let's not discuss LBJ's corruption and the ill-gotten gains and wealth of the family!!!!

[saracat]

23. Ladybird has to be given credit as an indididual.So please, for today, stuff it.

[book_worm]

49. And lets not forget his support for civil rights, war on poverty, and

Medicare. He was a complex man who did wrong (as did everybody's hero JFK) and a lot of good too.

[Pirate Smile]

27. I know. Geez....

:eyes:

[Retrograde]

45. if we can criticize Laura's fashion choices

then a Kennedy-relative governor's wife should not be immune. I think the dress is OK - with the jacket - but the shoes are too disco for a funeral. Nothing wrong with plain black pumps, even if it is a Texas summer.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. You have no idea how brutally hot and humid Texas is in the summer.

[CitizenLeft]

41. been there, and brutal is the word

And humid.

[frogcycle]

4. not being a fashion expert

nor a funeral etiquette expert, I can only go by what my ill-informed instinct tells me...


BAD!

[babylonsister]

5. Everyone's a critic; here's the thread with the jacket, and she looks stunning.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1336641

[partylessinOhio]

11. So sorry, I didn't see the other thread on Maria's funeral dress or

the photo with the jacket on. The slit up the back still would show in the rear view. The jacket isn't long enough to cover that.

I'd be more than happy to request this thread be deleted if it would please you.

[ben_meyers]

21. And now we know why you're "party less"

Prude!

[partylessinOhio]

42. Oh, dry up! It is not prudish to go for class. If she were mentally aware,

Maria's mother would not approve. Neither would Jackie. Appearing at Ladybird's funeral dressed in that manner did not uphold the Kennedy image.

As I said in the first post, I don't know what Maria was thinking. She looked more like a hooker than the first lady of California.

[question everything]

44. Did you see Lady Bird's granddaugther at the funeral?

There was a clip showing her talking about her grandmother.

Not even a jacket. Just a black dress with straps that exposed her upper chest and arms..

[partylessinOhio]

46. Do you mean Lucinda Robb?

She is pregnant and may have been a little too warm to wear a jacket. I agree a jacket would have been more appropriate. But at least she had no slit in her skirt to her crotch, was showing no cleavage and wasn't wearing gladiator sandals. She wasn't dressed sexy.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. So many critiques, so little to criticize...

She at least showed up, as opposed to Herr Dufus (*)

[Captain Hilts]

7. It's skimpy, but it has a jacket. It's okay. nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

8. Petty horseshit II.

[bbgrunt]

9. wow. Now we are the fashion nazis.

[wildhorses]

10. pfft --- i think you are just jealous ---

:eyes:

it has a jacket. it is july. it is TEXAS. sheesh!

[oldtime dfl_er]

12. More appropriate than this

[MonkeyFunk]

13. she looked perfectly

appropriate when she had the jacket on.

Lady Bird's grandchildren wore black cocktail dresses, too.

[TexasLawyer]

14. Hey, it's HOT down here

:D

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Oh, come on. I think she looks good. Theres no law that says you have to wear a Burqua to a funeral.

Big deal.

Cheney wearing the Snowblower outfit to the Holocaust Memorial, that was something else.

[Dervill Crow]

16. It covers what needs to be covered and it fits nicely.

That's more than can be said about anything I've ever seen our current First Lady wearing. :eyes:

My taste in shoes runs more toward Birkenstocks or Mephisto, but sandals in the summer make sense.

[AllieB]

17. I think she looks fabulous.

n/t

[Horse with no Name]

19. I wore a bright yellow shirt and a floral gypsy skirt to my Dad's funeral

I don't think he minded...:eyes:

[Rosemary2205]

35. I'm picturing "Klinger".

I don't know why but I always figured you for a man. :)

BTW at a recent family funeral my father told me he doesn't want to look down on his own funeral and see one stitch of black anywhere. :)

[Horse with no Name]

38. LOL

Very much a woman.:)
My Dad always said I looked crappy in black and he thought I looked prettiest in bright colors.
It surely wasn't a day to disappoint him.:)

[TwilightGardener]

20. It's a bit risque for a funeral. And is that a panty-line bulge on her ass?

[Stephanie]

25. that must be your crabby dog speaking

[TwilightGardener]

28. grrrr....

:-)

[saracat]

22. Apparently you are confusing "frumpy" with "classy". Maria looks stunning!

And that is a very classic and expensive dress.She wore a jacket and it was sweltering in Texas.She chose right.Ladybird's Granddaughter wore a sleeveless sun dress and she didn't wear a jacket .But I guess she couldn't meet your definition either!

[Emit]

24. Texas in July? It's just fine. n/t

[Skittles]

29. the dress - with jacket, not so bad

the FMPs? not a good choice

[NV Whino]

26. Whoa!

I bet Condi's jonesin' for those shoes.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. I am sure if Ann Coulter wore that black cocktail dress of hers at a funeral,

some of you would be dogging her. :)

[pansypoo53219]

31. heh

at least she looks like an expensive whore. my step-moster showed up at my great-uncle's funeral in a tiger striped blouse. poofy hair(she uses a 'fall or what ever ya call em). skin tight black leather pants on her bony ass. heels of course. just cheap ho. stuck in the 80's. wasn't much better for grandpa's. but it was colder.
luckily she doesn't like me, so i can ignore her stupid ass.

ooh, she's gonna be 60 real soon. may have to send her a torture card, sympathy.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

32. Damn, try some of the little thing they like to call "therapy".

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

33. Oh God How Petty. n/t

:eyes:

[Vidar]

34. She has the jacket under her arm. Would you prefer a burka?

[Decruiter]

37. Put the jacket on, it was not so terribly hot in Texas. n/t

[Decruiter]

36. Ever so simply TASTELESS and no CLASS! What a shame.

We have her and we have RFK, Jr. What a contrast.

[spanone]

39. looks pretty classy to me.....

[malaise]

40. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[MissB]

47. Other than her shoe choice, I think she looks fabulous.

[Midlodemocrat]

43. This is beyond ridiculous. She looks totally appropriate for a

summer wedding. And, as a person who has been to far too fucking many summer weddings over the last few years, I know what I'm talking about.

[WinkyDink]

48. Wedding?

[Midlodemocrat]

51. LOL. I have weddings on the brain lately.

I meant funerals.

[Raine]

50. Long discussion on this already

over here ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1336641