In her zarbun: Those shoes! That sjut!
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May 5, 2014 at 12:56am
Will somebody please take the trouble of deconstructing and analysing the President of Malta’s outfit and grooming, because right now I’m too exhausted and fed up of hamalli to do it myself.
Let’s say I’m suffering from hamallagni burn-out – so over to you. As they say, give me a break. Please.
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My God.
I’ll keep it brief: Merilweez needs a new wardrobe, and pronto.
Not at all. We just need a new (real and proper) President.
Keep it briefer. Malta needs a proper president. Pronto.
And needs to stop looking like one.
They have some very nice large gilded mirrors at the palace. The president should consider using them.
Did we really need the second photo?
Anyway, I’m no expert in women’s outfits, but I’d say that was an improvised guerilla desert version of a Merkel power suit. In other words, it’s a Tropenguerillaimprovisiertmerkelmachtanzug.
Get a new wardrobe. Keep it simple, classic and well-cut. That is the least she can do.
Oh, and throw away those shoes.
How about just throwing away the president, and finding something more suitable.
Those shoes are for a 20-year-old chav sex-pot and not for a 60-year-old head of state. She’s sending out a sex message there.
The suit is way too casual: the intended message is ‘down to earth and accessible’. The real message is ‘scruffy and shabby’.
The combination of those shoes and that suit send out signals of social availability with probable sexual undertones, the shoes signalling a degree of sexual eagerness and cheap nonchalance.
That’s the ambassador suit. And she’s still sporting the Crudelia Demon tac-cerimonja.
Jahasra, this is too easy.
Isn’t ‘President’ a brand of Brie?
Now I know what I’ll tell my kids when they ask me why it has that name.
Looks like she’s got one in every colour. She was wearing an identical one when she had ‘Prof’ Lino Bianco his letter of appointment as ambassador to Romania.
Her trouser-front trousers was creased in such a way as to leave nothing to the imagination. Please spare us, Madam President.
Her hair would not look a mess if someone recommended that she should wear a hat for morning ceremonies and just cover it up.
As for those shoes, was she considering a pole-dancing session for fat-granny-fanciers after the ceremony?
A final observation, looks like our PM did a fine job by finding someone who can ridicule the Presidential Office. Even Agatha Barbara knew to wear skirts and dresses.
The President’s overall look is so disheveled and crumpled that it looks like she slept in her clothes, jumped out of bed, barely dragged a comb through her hair, and then grabbed the first pair of shoes that caught her eye.
Very few women can be dressed from top to toe in white and look good. You have to be young, tall, thin and wearing an outfit that is immaculately tailored. The President doesn’t fit any of these criteria.
For some reason, she is enamoured with white. Someone needs to send her a memo to ditch this shade because it’s just not working.
This suit is poorly made and fits terribly. I am not sure if the material is cotton or linen, or a polyester mix, but whatever it is, it’s a wrinkled mess.
If you are short and overweight, you need to wear a jacket that is long enough to at least cover your derriere, so that it will elongate your trunk and give the illusion of height and slimness. Mid-thigh would be a good length.
This jacket is way too short, emphasizing the President’s ample hips and bottom. Pippa Middleton, she is not.
As if this jacket wasn’t awful enough, she has five buttons on each cuff. They only serve to make her arms look shorter and fatter.
The trousers are too tight around the thighs and too long around the ankles.
As for those shoes, could they be more hideous? They look ugly and cheap, and open-toed is totally inappropriate for the occasion. Frankly, if those were my toes, I would keep them hidden at all times.
Finally, we come to the hair. I know the ombre look is quite fashionable at the moment but I have a feeling this was not intentional. If you are going to dye your hair blonde, then go to a good hairdresser regularly and get it done there.
The President of Malta desperately needs a makeover and a competent stylist. An honest look in the mirror wouldn’t hurt either.
You missed the trouser-hem. As far as I can see it’s machine-stitched on the exterior.
Be thankful for small mercies. There isn’t a photo of her derrière in that see-through linen combo.
That aside, she could have at least matched her horrid and unsuitable mules to the jacket buttons if she really had no other outfit to wear.
On the positive side, let’s just be thankful she didn’t represent our country in Rome last week dressed like that.
Wait till you see her photo on page 2 (luckily not Page 3) of today’s Times of Malta.
Ghandha mirja id-dar din? Suppost qed toqghod il-palazz. The years have not been too kind for her figure, or maybe Etkar isn’t doing his job properly in cooking the right food to keep her trim.
Where do I begin?
Trouser suit: casual attire
Linen-mix suit (crumpled): uber casual
Posture: lacks grace
Overall outfit: should have been a sombre shade to match the sombre occasion
Peep-toe shoes with hooker heels: NO NO NO. Not on any woman her age, let alone one who is head of state. And…are those MULES?
Pedicure: a head of state and a woman of 60 should not be wearing silver polish. Who applies silver nail polish these days, anyway?
And I still can’t get over the fact that a man in a dark suit thought it appropriate to wear a straw hat, as did the lady next to him.
Can you see her nails on the photo? Because I can’t, so I can’t comment about her nail polish.
Many Maltese women polish their nails, I hardly ever see any woman in London with nail polish.
Right toe looks like silver nail polish to me. I’m in London and have been for a few years – we do apply nail polish, but the non-hamalli stick to classic colours such as shades of red and pink.
That was a definitely a Brit.
The lady with the appropriate attire and shoes is the US ambassador and she is not wearing a straw hat. We can only dream of the president having the good taste in clothing that that ambassador does.
SEND HER AN IMAGE CONSULTANT TO THE PALACE ASAP.
I do not work in fashion but through reading, television and the internet I know what, when and how to wear attire for different occasions.
Besides, when clothes and shoes are out of fashion, I either throw them away or keep them just for memory’s sake. And I am a stay-at-home mum not a head of state.
Simple: morbid obesity and white linen, crumpled or not, don’t go together.
What about a laundry press for starters?
For goodness sake, someone should advise her on style and what a woman her size, height and shape – more so a President – should wear.
There is no way a woman of her age, physical stature or status should own a pair of shoes like that. With her kind of figure (very shot and round, big tits, big belly) she should wear tailored skirt/dress suits with some armour underneath to hold everything in.
That doesn’t mean she cannot wear some colour (except, of course, on a solemn wreath-laying occasion like that). But she always looks, I don’t know, dull seems to be the best way to describe her. Shabby.
Smart, expensive shoes are a must. AND P-L-E-A-S-E…isn’t it about time someone told her that the way she colours her hair is HIDEOUS? She has a two-tone colour, dark underneath and blonde on top, as if she cannot afford a full head of colour/lights.
And I’ve noticed her hair isn’t always fresh either. One time on TV it looked positively dirty and oily which made the colour difference even worse.
She should stop thinking on the lines of being a modern-day female Robin Hood and start thinking about her new role as President of Malta.
I say keep the shoes, and change the President.
Who said evolution is slow and takes centuries?
When I was at Sea World a couple of years ago, whales didn’t dress up.
2014 it is, and voila.
The good thing is that the President’s outfit deconstructs by itself, spontaneously.
Typical peasant. I wonder why she could not find the right man for such a long time.
What the Italians refer to as ‘unta’ is a good way to describe her too: greasy.
Another “culona inchiavabile” as a famous Italian would say.
Spot on, mdellka is the word.
She should not have toes showing.
Stockings at all times, even summer.
There’s loads more to say, but I am not into “educating Rita.”
This one too should never have been there in the first place.
Very high heels are a big No-No. So and peep-toes. And so are mules for anywhere but the beach.
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Her posture is terrible, and the shoes don’t help at all.
These people need to stick to the rules, which are there for a reason.
Forget Princess Diana’s rebellious way of trying to change the monarchy. It didn’t work, it won’t work in tiny Malta and if it does, she’ll be just like the ordinary MP not the head of state.
Well, let’s put it this way. When we revert to the Maltese Lira her picture will look realistic on crumpled banknotes.
She’s a definite seven pinter.
Roslyn says:
My mum would sum up this style very briefly, efficiently and succinctly: “Wiċċ ta’ mdellka.”
What a fat mess she is.
The shoes shock me deeply. I do not even wear them for a night out with friends (I’m 36) let alone to go to a ceremony, of whichever nature. And she does not even look comfortable in them. She looks as though she is struggling not to fall over. Come on.
I dare not mention the suit, the hair, the toenails (for God’s sake).
The shoes, however, are in a class of horror of their own. God help us. God really, really help us.
Or maybe with all her new-found free time she could hit the gym a little
Seems to me Muscat gave her the job to make a bigger mess of herself than Godfrey Farrugia did as health minister. Really cruel of the PM.
Was it not Caeser who cried “let me have men about me that are fat” . So what’s all the fuss about Joseph doing the same.