# Time to start criticizing Jill Biden's wardrobe **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484 "2021-04-06T12:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/61 "2021-04-09T01:05:48Z")
Winner! ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/62 "2021-04-10T15:06:32Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > They are called patterned tights. To be more specific, sheer patterned tights. Tights are thick, by definition. If the hosery is sheer, it’s stockings or pantyhose, but it cannot possibly be tights. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/63 "2021-04-10T15:12:03Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > Tights are thick, by definition. If the hosery is sheer, it’s stockings or pantyhose, but it cannot possibly be tights. - Everyone, from Neiman Marcus to Target to Forever 21, refers to them as patterned/printed/sheer tights. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/64 "2021-04-10T17:39:40Z")
My daughter is a dancer and has lots of pairs of tights, none of them thick. Tights are not thick by definition; most tights are very thin. For fun @Bootb look up the definition of tights, I won’t even do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/65 "2021-04-10T17:49:17Z")
Didn’t Michelle Obama sport [**bare arms**](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6986019&page=1) when she was FLOTUS ?? What the Hell kind of whacked-out, Socialist, Marxist, exhibitionist, hedonistic, Caligula people are you voting for, anyway ??? /sarcasm Dr. Biden looks amazing. Good for her ! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/66 "2021-04-10T18:01:12Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Didn’t Michelle Obama sport [**bare arms**](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6986019&page=1) when she was FLOTUS ?? > > What the Hell kind of whacked-out, Socialist, Marxist, exhibitionist, hedonistic, Caligula people are you voting for, anyway ??? > > /sarcasm > > Dr. Biden looks amazing. Good for her ! - It’s truly scandalous when the First Lady displays bare arms. /s [![](https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/jQj_6DlW4yX06gx44CnDHh7dEPo=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-76288426-85669c0441784d22927ba7dca5ec5105.jpg) ](https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/jQj_6DlW4yX06gx44CnDHh7dEPo=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-76288426-85669c0441784d22927ba7dca5ec5105.jpg) [![](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/fashion/2017/01/13/JS117625643_Zuma-Press-eyevine_Former-First-Lady-Nancy-Reagan-Dies-At-94-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq8dBEnyYrQ3XnIVzJ5MIc9XzCwwhXiGzJaOe_zX4ZzYs.jpg) ](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/fashion/2017/01/13/JS117625643_Zuma-Press-eyevine_Former-First-Lady-Nancy-Reagan-Dies-At-94-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq8dBEnyYrQ3XnIVzJ5MIc9XzCwwhXiGzJaOe_zX4ZzYs.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/67 "2021-04-10T20:24:07Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Didn’t Michelle Obama sport [**bare arms**](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6986019&page=1) when she was FLOTUS ?? She has every right to do that, it’s protected by the Second Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/68 "2021-04-10T20:28:00Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > She has every right to do that, it’s protected by the Second Amendment. 🏆 ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/69 "2021-04-10T20:38:47Z")
Oh, yeah. Stands to reason: she really did have great guns. [![](https://ifhappinesscanlastforever.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/1800330_10101289571146059_1859243854_n.jpg) ](https://ifhappinesscanlastforever.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/1800330_10101289571146059_1859243854_n.jpg) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/70 "2021-04-10T21:34:54Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > Tights are thick, by definition. [Nope](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tights#Noun) > A close-fitting, [**sheer**](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheer) or non-sheer skin-tight [garment](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/garment) worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the [waist](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waist) [down](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/down), usually including the [feet](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foot). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/71 "2021-04-10T23:27:14Z")
I want the Good Doctor to be sporting thigh high boots next time and see mass cardiac arrests everywhere in the reichwingosphere. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/72 "2021-04-10T23:28:06Z")
I’ve been wearing tights for a large number of decades, and they can be just about any thickness. Also, in the UK, tights refers to just about any type of panty hose-like garment. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/73 "2021-04-22T19:53:50Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > It was classy 'cause Melania kept her pinky finger out. - > > [https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uM9q4WpYhkY/VeP4cNV0cEI/AAAAAAAAGsE/NyHdcxJoch4/s1600/No%2Bpinky%2Bfinger%2Bthrust%2Bso.jpg](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uM9q4WpYhkY/VeP4cNV0cEI/AAAAAAAAGsE/NyHdcxJoch4/s1600/No%2Bpinky%2Bfinger%2Bthrust%2Bso.jpg) > > Prevents fisting. Got it. - So does slapping one’s hand away. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/74 "2021-04-22T21:32:21Z")
Two things: First, as long as we are fessing up to our own commentary on the appearance of political figures whose views we oppose, I personally have jeered at Ted Cruz, who has a truly disturbing visage. And maybe that’s worse than picking on someone’s fashion choices, because you can pick your clothes, but not the shape of your face. Second, can I please at least have a hint as to what the disturbing typo was? My imagination is failing me. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/75 "2021-04-22T22:10:43Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Second, can I please at least have a hint as to what the disturbing typo was? There was an ‘r’ missing from a word. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/76 "2021-04-23T00:23:04Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > And maybe that’s worse than picking on someone’s fashion choices, because you can pick your clothes, but not the shape of your face. No, but he sure as hell can choose the style – or presence – of a beard. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/77 "2021-04-24T11:08:50Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > No, but he sure as hell can choose the style – or presence – of a beard. Even better, he can choose not to be a complete scrotum at every opportunity, in which case I, and I suspect most of us, would find it far easier to resist the temptation to make jokes about his appearance. {checks earpiece} What? He actually _can’t_ not be an utter trashfire of a human? I apologize for the previous suggestion. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/78 "2021-04-24T14:31:28Z")
> [@carlb](#): > > Even better, he can choose not to be a **complete scrotum** at every opportunity, in which case I, and I suspect most of us, would find it far easier to resist the temptation to make jokes about his appearance. I just realized what his beard reminds me of… ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/79 "2021-04-24T15:42:15Z")
A [Dick Tracy](https://joshreads.com/2008/02/the-corpse-bride/) villain? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484/80 "2021-04-25T04:35:44Z")
Stat? citicizing? wadrobe? wardobe? I must be pretty thick. I’m not seeing it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-start-criticizing-jill-bidens-wardrobe/939484.md?page=5)