We break down the reasons why the first lady never wears her coat sleeves. What message does Melania want to send to the world with this gesture that is so common in fashion?
If you like fashion, surely the trend of wearing 'off the shoulders' coats is not unknown to you. It consists of putting on coats as if they were capes, a usual chic gesture among fashionistas that in 2016 'Vogue' renamed when talking about look 8 of the Demna Gvasalia fashion show, which consisted of an anorak specifically designed to be worn as if it were a cape . "The contrast of wearing a normal outer garment as an exotic coat was a truly modern twist and the moment the art of shrobing was born," the post wrote.
In fact, shrobing is media art when associated with Meghan Markle, who attended the Commonwealth Youth Forum reception in a striped Altuzarra dress, which she paired with a Camilla and Marc blazer draped over her shoulders. When Meghan does it, the Duchess becomes a fashion icon, but when it's Melania who sets the trend in motion, social media is quick to criticize her. "Does he think he's Batman?" is one of the usual jokes that accompany her public appearances.
What is the message of the cape coats her?
This weekend, Melania visited Ohio in a Michael Kors skirt, Saint Laurent shirt, and Kors off-the-shoulder jacket. The Melania formula was repeated once again, but why does she never wear her coats on a regular basis? One of the few times that Melania used the sleeves of her jacket in her normal way was precisely when she wore the infamous Zara parka that made her one of the most hated women on the planet. Perhaps she did it because then her jacket was already in charge of sending the message that she had in mind and she showed that, when that time came, she really did not care about anything.
Putting on coats 'off shoulders' is neither easy nor comfortable. It is a tendency that limits movement and exempts the wearer from being able to make any effort. She indicates that the wearer of the coat is someone who does not ride the subway - it is impossible to grab onto the bar without the coat falling off or someone pushing you and your Delpozo coat not ending up on the floor. By the way, we are aware that if we had a Delpozo, we would not go by metro, but rather someone who is taken everywhere.
Anna Wintour wears her coats in this way and leaves the cars in which they take her to the parades showing off shrobing, showing that her mission these days is to sit down to watch the parades without having to move her arms. Oh, a side note now that we're talking about fashion weeks. After publishing an article in 'The Guardian' in 2012 in which it talked about the art of 'shoulder-robing', 'BuzzFeed' explained that, in September, fashionistas want to show off their new coats, but since temperatures remain high during that month , they put them on their shoulders to show them off.
Melania presents the image of a woman who is distant and unable to undertake any task, especially since she does not really need to do it. Especially notable were the photos of her allegedly adorning her Christmas tree with the $3,000 Calvin Klein coat draped over her shoulders. For starters, don't the Trumps pay the gas bill and have to walk around the house with a coat? To continue, she tries to put the shooting star on the tree with a coat as a cape and tells us where the coat ends.
Another noteworthy occasion was when she uploaded a photograph of her to the networks in which Melania wore a pink coat in such a way that she seemed to have different arms because she had not put it on, again, correctly. The lights of the image and the way she put on her coat made her a real alien.
Wearing the coat as a cape, however, worked in her favor as she prepared to board her private plane with her husband for a trip to Ohio. When Donald Trump tried to shake her hand, she found an empty sleeve, so on that occasion her 'off shoulders' coat helped her not to shake hands with her husband, avoiding that public rejection that she has not hesitated to do in more of an occasion. Is this way of wearing her jackets her anti-Trump armor?
