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RED DRESSES AT THE WHITE HOUSE..

 OH HOW EMBARASSING!

I often get my news clips from the  many friends who know Filipino employees working for the popular people of the world. ...Believe me, I get stuff from the yaya of the great grandson of a middle eastern King, and even the maids of famous movie stars, and the private chefs of a famous Broadway producer. He is the one who send me the latest info in the world of fashion....

Let us just say, I have friends in low places, with the discretion to merely pass on stuff that is in the news but may be unoticed by the simple folk such as myself.

This is why, cooks, nurses, yayas and personal assistants know more than even you as to what is really going on. So be careful of the silent hired help! They can be your friends  or your worse enemies.

Some servants who are friends of mine and my children keep in touch with the comings and goings of popular people they work for...believe me, they know what is really happening even in the  secure domain of the White House!

Here is a recent report I got from Washington, D.C. but remember the tsismis is not at all going to talk badly about genuinely nice people like Laura Bush.  

First Lady, Laura Bush exclaims " Oh No, they are wearing my dress!"


Talk about embarassing moments! First Lady Laura Bush is wearing the very red dress sent to her by her stylist from the racks of Oscar de la Renta from  Washington, D.C.'s swank botiques.
 
  Laura Bush was seeing red last weekend when she found not one, but THREE of her guests in the same identical $8,500 Oscar de la Renta dress...talk about pricey designer knock offs. Being always the considerate one, Laura dashed up the White House stairs and made a quick change,  smiling and happy the party was at her house. Warned by a Filipino aide de camp, she was able to avoid being seen, but was photographed in the dress before the dinner started.  Laura raced to change, leaving the three other women to fume over the audacity of the other two.


I'm sure the designer has some kind of lame excuse for this occurrence, but for $8,500 a woman should have some peace of mind that this kind of social faux pas does not occur again, cuz what use  is she First Lady if she can't get a one-of-a-kind dress !


Actually Laura Bush is very humble and doesn't want to be extravagant, so she doesn't live beyond her means. Gee, wouldn't we all wish that our Filipino politicians wives and girlfriends stop buying P75,000 shirts at Escada and St. John botiques...I mean if Laura Bush can buy off the racks, then Mrs. Congresman and Mrs. Senators should take the hint to cut back on high fashion, and those who patronize the local designers here locally must be assured no one has the same outfit at a big event!

HERE IS THE CBS NEWS COVERAGE OF THIS FIASCO...
Laura Bush Among Four Ladies In Red
First Lady, Three Others Wear Same Dress For Kennedy Center Honors

(CBS) Every woman who's ever attended a formal party has had the same concern: What if someone else shows up in the same dress?

As CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras reports, that's exactly what happened to first lady Laura Bush at Sunday's Kennedy Center Honors, always one of Washington's biggest nights for stars, and glamorous fashion.

With guests in the spotlight at the exclusive White House receptions that go with the ceremony, the designer gowns are always scrutinized.

And on Sunday, four women at the reception wore the exact same $8,500 Oscar de la Renta dress, Mrs. Bush among them.

Letitia Baldridge, Jacqueline Kennedy's chief of staff and White House social secretary, says the gown was beautiful, but oh, what a faux pas!

"They all should have congratulated one another on their good taste and the fact that they could afford the dress. … Jacqueline Kennedy, when she was first lady, made sure, and her couturiers made sure, that nobody else wore that dress that season."

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