Isaac Mizrahi's design for Malia, Michelle and Sasha Obama
While Women's Wear Daily published sketches of designer ball gowns for Michelle Obama to wear Inauguration night (she will likely choose a different designer, what WWD and the designers did there was just for fun), a U.S. businessman named Earl Stafford was conjuring up his own inaugural ball. Prompted by the Washington Marriott's $1 million Build Your Own Ball offer, he decided to throw a People's Inaugural Ball for 1,000, one third of whom will be homeless folks, battered women, disabled soldiers, and terminally ill patients. Stafford heads the Stafford Foundation, which is committed to the underserved, marginalized and distressed.
The people will be pampered in a luxury hotel for 3 days, and provided with tuxedoes and ball gowns, hair dressers and beauticians for the event.
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It's easy for me to start an argument with myself over this.
It's easy for me to start an argument with myself over this.
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"Balls are silly."
"Balls are silly."
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"Yeah, but this is an important milestone in history, and it should be marked with a grand celebration."c-
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"Michelle will make a statement with the designer she chooses."
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"Who cares?"
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"Who cares?"
"Me, maybe."
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"There are better ways to spend $1million (not these). And how will those people feel going back to their misery?"
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"Well, Mr. Stafford does head a foundation to help them. Maybe their lives will improve with his help, beyond 3 nights. And wouldn't you love a chance to do what Earl Stafford is giving these people a chance to do?"
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"Um, I dunno, wearing an uncomfortable dress, and having to talk to people I don't know for 3 or more hours?"
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"Yeah, but maybe Michelle and Barack will stop by." -
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"There are better ways to spend $1million (not these). And how will those people feel going back to their misery?"
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"Well, Mr. Stafford does head a foundation to help them. Maybe their lives will improve with his help, beyond 3 nights. And wouldn't you love a chance to do what Earl Stafford is giving these people a chance to do?"
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"Um, I dunno, wearing an uncomfortable dress, and having to talk to people I don't know for 3 or more hours?"
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"Yeah, but maybe Michelle and Barack will stop by." -
Mr. Stafford said: The People's Inaugural Project offers the underprivileged in our society a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to our nation's capital and join in the watershed inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. It's a historic investment for our foundation.
Illustration for Charles Perrault's Cinderella from Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé: Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye(1697). Gustave Doré's illustrations appear in an 1867 edition entitled Les Contes de Perrault. Second of three engravings (from wiki commons)
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Lesley and Peter made these from yellow construction paper when we lived in İstanbul in the late '80s. The yellow has faded in these past 20 years, and some glitter has worn off. Like Turkish carpets, they have grown more valuable with age.
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