Enough with the trousers, President Coleiro
Here’s the latest bit of sartorial horror from page 2 of Times of Malta. Trousers on a woman are a no-no for formal occasions, unless they’re palazzo pants and worn in the evening (by women who are over 5’6″).
For formal occasions before 8pm, it’s SKIRTS or DRESSES. Formal occasions do not include Angela Merkel at a political conference.
When the woman is head of state, trousers at formal occasions during the day look even worse, and worse still when those trousers are casual and worn with a separately mixed jacket.
The outfit is wrong for the occasion, terribly wrong for her position, and wrong for her size, height and shape. Women who are that spectacularly short – the president cannot be more than 4’10” – should not wear trouser suits or jackets and trousers, even if they are young and slim, let alone when they are as wide as they are high and what is known as an ‘apple shape’.
Nor should they, when they are that obese, try to make up for their lack of height by wearing hooker-heels, as the president does. The main function of hooker heels is not to add height, as many Maltese women appear to believe, but to tilt the female bottom outwards and upwards and the bosom forward in a sexual message – a really lousy idea when both are huge, as in the President’s case (and that’s quite apart from the fact that the President shouldn’t be sending out any kind of sexual message).
That’s why the President’s bottom is sticking outwards in all published photographs so far. Yes, it’s large to start with, but it’s also artificially tilted upwards and outwards by those five-inch heels she insists on wearing.
She makes matters a hundred times worse by wearing the sort of jacket that for earlier generations (of men) was called a ‘busli sormi’: one that stops just short of the hips, revealing the bottom.
Hooker heels are always inappropriate for a woman of 60. You can only get away with them when you are in your 20s, slim and beautiful (young people can get away with anything, because youth is so wonderful in itself and so forgiving), and wearing them ironically with non-tacky clothes. Hooker heels are phenomenally inappropriate for a head of state.
And the President really, really needs an on-call hairdresser to go to the palace every morning and get that hair in order. The rest of us can jump under the shower and rush out of the house, because we are not the President. She can no longer do that. It’s OK for the rest of us to be scruffy and even a bit shabby from time to time – who cares? But she can’t. From here on in, she’s representing Malta and always under the camera.
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Maybe that is the true reason why she skipped the canonisation of the two popes. She must have difficulty buckling the security belt on aircraft passenger seats.
I think she skipped the canonisation of the two popes because she wasn’t allowed to make a speech from the pulpit..
She looks like a sunburned skunk with that two-tone hair colour. Imma l-aqwa li blonde.
She is not an unattractive woman, let’s give her that. She needs to put herself in a different mind set though.
With what she has given out in interviews, we already know that she thinks it’s a waste of time and waste of public money (she has also said that she is not the sort for ‘pompi’) to make herself look good for the occasions she is/will be attending.
Someone needs to tell her that looking presentable in the best way possible is HER JOB now since she is representing her country.
[Daphne – She has absolutely no problem with pomp, ceremony and wasting money. Her installation ceremony was extremely fussy and long, and cost an unnecessary fortune. I think her real problem is that after a lifetime of throwing on whatever and getting away with it, she is now at a complete loss as to what to wear not to look a complete shambles. Also, where posture and carriage are concerned, it’s way too late to do anything. The body has set gracelessly and now any attempt to straighten her back and keep her chin up will look forced and be uncomfortable.]
She could lose some weight.
And tell me how will her weight affect the work she does?
She represents all of us, not “locally”, but on the world stage. If she’s overweight she’ll look horrible, and she makes us all look horrible.
Do I have to spell it out a hundred times?
Standards, standards, standards.
It’s the sheer size of the woman that troubles me. Gandhi’s calls for equality and egalitarianism had credibility due to his diminutive, emaciated looks, amongst other things.
Coleiro is a doughnut-scoffing socialist. She is hardly dying of hunger there. Her gut is hanging over so much that she will soon need one of those old/morbidly obese people buggies.
Her gut rivals Manwel Mallia’s gut.
I like to see an A/B comparison between the two guts.
It would be a gut contest.
Again, those Nappy Pants.
I’ll just squeeze out a bit more advice: Merilweez is carrying too much body weight around.
A natural diuretic is an infusion of buzbiez which she should take throughout the day.
A natural cleanout would be boiled onions at least twice a week.
Start the day off with a freshly squeezed citrus juice and warm water to clean out the system.
Keep off the pork, oil , fried food, nibbling, any fats.
Try limiting bread to two slices a day.
Aristotle’s rule: Everything, in moderation.
Cardinal rule:
Breakfast like a king
Lunch like a prince
Dine like a pauper
Instead of opening up San Anton Palace: install a gym and a personal trainer.
Next we’ll having to look at her in a bikini.
I’m surprised the Net TV team hasn’t thought to ridicule this hamallagni angle. There’s a field day they can have with Labour on a daily basis.
And the imdellka greasy hair angle.
Those feet haven’t seen a pedicure in decades.
What a gross immediate reflection of the whole person hygiene angle.
I hope San Anton Palace has increased its detergent budget.
She represents Malta in an honest way.
I can’t wait to join Marilweez in the President’s fun runs.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1398881307060869&set=a.1398881233727543.1073741836.1384775358471464&type=1&theater
Manuel Mallia x’iharsilha!
What is it with this woman and white and black? Jeez
Not sure if you have seen this:
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/05/01/servizz-ta-childcare-ghall-haddiema-tal-etc-se-jitwaqqaf-mis-sajf-li-gej/
Even Agatha Barbara had better dress sense when it came to official occasions.
This one looks like an overweight badly dressed frump.
The pity is that she is not that bad looking and with some good advice she can be made to look presentable and not such an embarrassing eye sore.
[Daphne – Agatha Barbara took advice, that’s why. She was dressed by Josephine Bonello of Touch of Class boutique in Milner Street, Sliema. The shop would be opened especially for her out of hours. I lived directly across the street at the time, which is how I know.]
Agatha should have sent her sister Rose over there too, but they probably wouldn’t have men’s jackets with padded shoulders.
Joseph’s ordered an enquiry into the disappearing tanker.
By right, James Piscopo as Transport Malta boss should head it and who knows, his pushchair might turn up.
The length of the ‘busli sormi’ jacket, generally in tweed, in fact fully concealed that part of the body, that being the jacket length in vogue at that time.
The busli sormi type of jacket had ‘cuts’ on the lower edge on both sides of the back panel, so forming a lift-up flap providing access to trouser back pockets and avoiding creasing when the wearer was seated.
The short jacket stopping just short of the hips was known, in Malta at least, as a ‘Beatle jacket’.
Issa ghandha kok maghha u tiekol b’ xejn. Nispera li ma tehxienx aktar.
She has a hairdresser: Alexandra Zammit, daughter of Emmanuel Zammit, who is one of those closest to the President. She was transferred from health to social security when Coleiro was minister there and appointed secretary to one of the medical boards so she can pass the people they want to pass.
Now she has been transferred to the president’s office, and her only work is to do Coleiro’s hair.
“I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout
Just tip me over and pour me out.”
The black-pants-white-jacket combo was splendidly worn by Goering in his heyday.
Then again, his body proportions were quite similar to those in discussion.
the title caught my eye, and I assume the rest of the article is therefore focused on such ridiculous nonsense. Some people have better things to worry about than fashionable attire, others really need to learn how to not try and pick a needle out of a hay stack. Why the bother, honestly? do you have nothing better with which to occupy your time?
Had she been running for a modelling campaign, then maybe such comments would suffice.. but truth be told, who on earth cares about the above?
Obviously, you do, since you have taken the time to comment. Appearances matter, whatever your line of work. It’s not fashion per se – or lack of it, in this case – that is the concern but the general lowering of already abysmally low standards.
Would you trust a surgeon who didn’t bother dressing properly when entering the operating theatre?
Exactly.
Maybe Michelle Muscat is giving her some style tips, considering that both of them are nearly the same size.
Look who’s resurfaced after last month’s thunderstorms:
Dr Joe Cilia
Citizenship Concessionaire at Individual Investor Program, Malta
Nahseb li ghandek punt validu – ghandu jkun hemm min jaghtiha pariri ta’ kif tidher fil-pubbliku. Kariga ta’ president iggib certi sagrificcji u protokol.
Please stop suggesting that the President needs a stylist, a hairdresser, a shoemaker, a vegan chef etc etc – the less she employs, the better off for my taxes. I mean, can we stoop any lower? Ah yes, Alfredo Sant for MEP. Viva l-lejber! Hey hey.
don’t mean to attack you,
nor trying to defend President Coleiro (honestly have no idea what she’s supposed to be doing, public figure?)
but… have a look at what the best president the world has ever seen wears… http://infosurhoy.com/saii/images/2009/10/26/URUGUAY-FrenteAmplioJoseMujica-490_376.jpg
i like most of your articles but have the impression that you don’t always look for the right matters to confront.
If you have no idea what the president of Malta is supposed to be doing, why are you so sure it’s wrong to criticise her manner, self-presentation and general behaviour?
U Jo jidhaq u jghid, “Ara kemm wahhaltulha tajjeb talli ppruvat taghmilha tal-helwa mieghi, tajtha job li zgur ma tafx taghmel. Veru Michelle?”.
Prosit Jo kemm taf tpattihom.
Needed this. I cannot stop laughing.
Kemm tifilhu tkunu injoranti ghid ??
Din fuq il-President ta’ pajjizkhom qed titkelmu ta !! Imbilli libset qalziet kisret xi ligi ? Imbilli ma ghandix figure ta mudella ghamlet xi haga hazina ? Qabel ma tparlaw fil-vojt harsu harsa fill-mera kollha kemm inthom.
X’naqbad nghidlek, hlief li I haven’t forgotten my sovereign, if others have. Down with the republic.
Mhux problema – jien harist lejn il-mera u rajt hafna diffetti, imma ma zzattatxt biex imur nilghaba ta’ President ta’ pajjizi, u ha nghidlek, probabilment jien inkun ahjar minnha.
Let’s call Mr Starkers of ‘Arani Issa’ for a total make-over sponsored by Josie Muscat.
Unfortunately for Manuel Mallia, he’ll have to stick to trousers.
How unfortunate for Manuel Mallia. He’ll have to stick to trousers.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-05-05/opinions/woman-power-4856905732/
A 1500 euro top up per year on the minimum wage. The question remains; does this imply there will be those who’ll pay taxes and those who won’t, both earning the same?
And another thing, why should I subsidise ‘entrepreneurs’ in this manner? One also wonders what happens to any calculation, data and measure of the economy now that costs shall be detached from their respective entries.
What happens to the GDP figure, if not inflated via deficit spending directly contaminating the private sector? If this is his way of removing figures from the lower end of the scale, doesn’t mean we’ve improved our workforce to skills, employability and added value. What it means is sanctioning lower wages with artifice.
And finally, where does he get the resources?
I saw her shoes in an earlier post. I’m shocked.
They are really hooker heels. Incredible. Absolutely incredible. I hope she will never appear in public next to Queen Elizabeth II. She would stand out like a very, very sore and ugly thumb.
[Daphne – She’ll have to, when Malta hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in a couple of years, unless the Prince of Wales deputises as he did last time.]
He won’t. I have it on authority that Her Majesty will make the trip to Malta. She has a soft spot for the place. To think that we pissed it all away on a whim.
Indeed. I had totally forgotten about that. I shudder at the thought.
CHOGM Malta is next year, actually. And Phyllis Muscat will be in attendance.
Dressed for the occasion. It looks like the kettle drum that accompanies the village band as it parades the village street on festa day.
Such low-life people to be honest, you bash on the President of Malta for her size, the way she dresses, her hair colour which is absurd.
So you say, she does not represent the state like the state is supposed to be represented with her style, hair colour ect.
Its people like you that represent Malta in such a negative way, because face it or not Coleiro is the president not you.
And need I comment on the fact that you bashed on her size? Its so disrespectful especially over someone who clearly whether you like it or not, has more authority than you.
Doughnut-scoffing socialist? Difficulty buckling the security belt? You preach about this woman, who should represent Malta in a more lady-like way. When, people like you cast a shadow on the entire Maltese population because, its one thing to give suggestions, but its another to imply that Coleiro is ‘too big’ to fit into a security belt, and that she will soon need one of those obese people buggies.
Grow up people, I would love to see you say this to her in person. Not hiding behind a computer screen. Maybe people will actually take you seriously, in the future if you are talking sense not absolute rubbish.
I’d be a better president than Coleiro. Most of us here would.
Coleiro, as you rightly point out, is the president. That means she represents Malta. It also means that anything she does wrong – and there’s been lots of it so far – she does in Malta’s name. The presidency is not a private office for the enjoyment of the incumbent. Is this so hard to understand?
Spot on.
One of the very first things Ms Caruana Galizia said is that Marie Louise Coleiro is not fit for purpose, because the Presidency is not a title, but has a specific purpose to fulfil.
Part of this purpose is to represent the State with dignity and appropriate behaviour, which Coleiro Preca continues to demonstrate herself to be unable to do.
Where are her advisers? If I were the President, I would ask for advice every step I take.
I would want to keep the position in high esteem and make sure that I won’t be criticised.
Let us give her some time until she adjusts to her new role. It is not easy to go from one position to another.
Obama’s facepalm says it all.
Mhux ahjar kulhadd jara tieghu, kull minn jghalli jdejjh ghandu xi jxomm. Halluha bi kwieta il gid li ghamlet ma ssemuhx dak mhux billi jkollok apparenza fenomenali imbaghad tigi taqa u tqum minn kulhadd. Ahjar tkun kid inhi u tkompli bil gid li qeda taghmel. Nahseb ahjar kulhadd ihares harsa fil mera li ghandu d dar ax garanzija li kulhadd ghandu difetti. Kompli bil hidma li qed taghmel eccelenza u prosit minn qalbi.
Mrs Preca is really out of her league. Her hair colour is terrible.
And yes, trouser suits on a very short, obese stature are definitely a no no.