the kicker

Dear Robin Givhan…

…and, for that matter, any other fashion critics looking for another angle on The Obamas’ Clothing Choices and What They Mean: We have a story idea for you! Does today’s much-circulated NASA image–which, as Curtis noted on The Observatory, “may be be the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system”–remind you of something? […]

November 14, 2008

…and, for that matter, any other fashion critics looking for another angle on The Obamas’ Clothing Choices and What They Mean: We have a story idea for you!

Does today’s much-circulated NASA image–which, as Curtis noted on The Observatory, “may be be the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system”–remind you of something? Say, a much-discussed and much-derided dress worn last week by a certain soon-to-be First Lady?


Discuss. In, say, 800 to 1,000 or so words. (And, for the idea: You. Are. Welcome.)

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.