First Lady Michelle Obama’s Second Inaugural Gown: Deserving Enough For The Smithsonian?

Even though it is somewhat a break in the tradition of the 200-year or so history of the US Presidency, but does First Lady Michelle Obama’s second inaugural gown deserve to be exhibited in the Smithsonian? 

Traditionally, the second inaugural gowns of every reelected US Presidents hence are usually destined to be exhibited in their respective presidential libraries, but as of late, US First Lady Michelle Obama’s second inaugural gown got the green light to be exhibited in the Smithsonian. Does her gown deserving enough to be exhibited there? 

According to the current Smithsonian curator Lisa Kathleen Grady, it is traditionally only the first inaugural gowns of the White House’s First Ladies that gets the green light to be exhibited in the Smithsonian despite their POTUS husbands being reelected for a second term and thus a second US Presidential Inauguration Ceremony come January after the US Presidential Elections scheduled in November. Notable US First Ladies’ first inaugural gowns exhibited in the Smithsonian that are very popular to visitors belong to the then First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the then First Lady Nancy Reagan – but will current US First Lady Michelle Obama’s second inaugural gown outshine them all? 

The red chiffon gown designed by Jason Wu could be timelessly stylish or not may be a debate best left to posterity, but I think the main reason why the top brass at the Smithsonian decided to exhibit the US First Lady Michelle Obama’s second inaugural gown might be due to her popularity. Or it might be due to the dearth of exhibits concerning influential African-Americans in the Smithsonian other than musicians and/or political activists. 

Margaret Thatcher’s “Hair Secrets” Revealed At Last?

Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cold war era hair secrets was just recently bared back in January 3, 2014 – is it a historically significant fact or a mere footnote? 

By: Ringo Bones 

Back in January 3, 2014 the UK’s National Archives – not the UK’s Official Secrets Act that we have all hoped for – finally revealed the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cold war era hair secrets, as in 1980s era hairdo secrets. Given the 1,000-year history of the UK’s National Archives are the facts surrounding Thatcher’s “Cold War Era Hairdo Secrets” historically significant for posterity or a mere footnote to be poked fun at for late night talk show hosts around the world? 

For those who were old enough to remember the 1980s, it seems that the late former US President Ronald Reagan and the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher despite their close friendship that seems to be the bastion that protects the Capitalist West from the then – according to then US President Ronald Reagan – the “Evil Soviet Empire” were both seem to be in competition to be which global superpower has the best hairdo. And this “hair competition” seem to echo until this day where the hairdo of porn star Peter North seem to mimic that of the late former US President Ronald Reagan – even rumor has it that the famed male porn star Peter North was even an alleged bastard child of the late former US President Ronald Reagan. Does this explain about the then “Pornography Commission” set up by then US President Ronald Reagan with the then US Attorney General Edwin Meese III? 

Anyway, according to the UK’s National Archives, the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had her hair done as often as 118 times a year!!! Does the “Iron Lady” need all that glamouring-up to protect the Capitalist West from the then “Evil Soviet Empire”?