Letters to the Editor
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well
astonishment around here wasn't about boobs - it was about Merkel. Like few other female politician before her, Merkel has cultivated a slight disdain for fashionable clothing and generally a low attention for her looks - she's as famous for her practical and somewhat gender neutral dresses as for her relative lack of makeup and her plain hairdo, the latter being the stuff quite some jokes about her in her early days.
She's a scientist by training, has a Ph.D. in Physics and has quipped occasionally that people should respect or disrespect her for her efforts, not for her looks.
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The guy who typed "vomit"?
I'd bet you'd pay folding money to do a motorboat in Merkel's rack.
If we can be treated to that photo of Dick Cheney aka "Vice President Tight Pants" eating ice cream with a clear Unitary Bulge on display, we can certainly deal with Andrea Merkel's Wagnerian ta-tas.
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Svutlana
Actually, now that I think of it you sound more like Yoda, but I'm sure you're a hulk a burning love too.
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inappropriate dress
Yes, she's a woman. Yes, she has cleavage. But I think it's inappropriate to wear something with a plunging neckline to a business event unless you're a movie star, model or hooker. And let's face it, if you're a politician, every event is a business event. I wouldn't dare wear something so revealing to one of my business outings, even if it were an evening event, and my company is by no means conservative.
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The opera
is not a business event.
She's showing off. That's what people do at the opera.
Next issue?
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Merkel's Boner (a famous American baseball reference for a stupid mistake)
Chancellor Merkel is built like a soprano, but has the face of a linebacker. So, maybe her motive was redirection as much as allure. I enjoy women's breasts but I also enjoy the aesthetic pleasure of a beautiful dress. Carving out the center of an elegant gown merely draws attention away from the unlimited potential of a sly smile and a brilliant turn of phrase. A billboard sized commercial for big boobs is also an inadvertant implication that there isn't much else of interest.
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Svutlana=Sasha Baron Cohen
Wanna bet? I hope Svutlana comes to the big screen.
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@kansasgirl - now yxou can add politicioan to that list
Frankly, that gown isn't that extraordinary. Kansas isn't the US, and the US isn't Europe.
So, that list of yours is illogical anyway (where, actually, do you count Carla Bruni - can she wear a lowcut robe for beeing a model, or not for being a a president's wife?)
So, instead of dwelling in that maze of illogic, just add European politicians to that list of yours, and be done with it :-)
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elegant, gorgeous
Large-breasted women are always having to hide their endowments. But this is the type of event, and the type of gown, where a large-breasted woman gets to take over the room. I'm reminded of "half-naked Elena" being the center of attention and the locus of power at the opera in "War and Peace".
Gutsy, secure with herself, powerful. That's how I think of Merkel.
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snickering and snorting
Thanks for all the puns guys, I'm sitting here snorting in my coffee.
Hate the criticism of Hillary. For a woman who is powerful - actually scratch that - for a woman who wants to do anything apart from bake and have kids, everything about her, from her breasts to her tone of voice, is going to be problematised by someone, somewhere. But whatever they say - you dress like a tramp/you dress like a frigid man etc etc - the fundamental problem is this: what the hell do you think you're doing out of that box?
The best way forward is this: know that, whatever you do, someone's going to pick on you for it somewhere, so screw that and do what you feel like doing. Obviously Angela's doing that - wow, and they're gorgeous. European skin - sigh. The upside of never seeing the sun.
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Politicians to the list
@Chris W - I don't know if you've looked at a map lately, but Kansas is part of the U.S. whether you like it or not. If you ever visit there you'll find some of the kindest, friendliest people in the country.
However I live in LA now and work in the entertainment industry. I also work out at the same gym that many a porn star does, so I'm used to seeing considerable cleavage (not much of it's real, but it's out there for all the world to see).
I still think the plunging neckline was inappropriate. You read any advice column or book on women's dress in the workplace, and they'll all tell you that cleavage is a don't, right up there with flip-flops, tank tops and mini skirts. If I'm going to an event where I know I will see and be seen by business associates, I wear something work-appropriate. If I'm out on my own time with my friends and want to dress sexy, I do. Since I'm not a world political figure, I don't have to worry about being photographed in what I'm wearing.
I wouldn't consider Carla Bruni a politican, just the wife of one.
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Well...
I'm a liberal guy.
Quite a picture. Any woman that wears a dress that makes her cleavage look like a hood scoop on a drag racer is just screaming for a little too much attention. But that was in Oslo and not Peoria...
There is a lot to be said for decorum and modesty. Décolletage in Peoria would be a little more refined. I wonder if Bushie boy would want to massage her shoulders now? *snicker* Not if Condi was around...
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kansas girl,
Let me put it this way:
You may live in LA,
But if this give you pause,
Don't try Oz.
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As Miles Davis once said...
...So what.
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I couldn't resist...
Frau Merkel has normal female secondary sexual characteristics.
But your President has a Dick which does not shoot blanks...just ask Harry Whittington...
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Great look on Merkel!
Notice the way that her necklace echoes the shape of her jawline while the necklace itself is echoed by the shape of the scooped neckline of her gown. Also, midnight blue is a great color for evening. Long ago I read a book by a french author called Elegance written at the time that Jackie Kennedy was first lady. The book was just the last word in what to wear and it prescribed plunging necklines for the opera. Americans are such prudes.
Merkel looks perfectly appropriate. Big breasted gals look so much better in lower cut dresses, especially if they have short waists.
@ Canuckistan Bob
Hillary Clinton has average-sized breasts for her height and age. Her hips are also average-sized. Because she has a short waist however, she would actually look better in V-necks instead of those trussed-up suits she feels compelled to wear due to the general stuffiness of the American voter. I say: Free Hillary! In a V-neck, it will be perfectly clear to everyone that our Senator Clinton is shaped like a normal woman and not like a Thanksgiving turkey.