Michele Bachmann may have a set of sparkling baby blues to kill for (try it, she dares you!) and a smokin’ hot body to boot, but how does Rep. “Crazy Eye Candy” from Minnesota keep herself looking so fabulously fashionable??
Why, the secret styling weapon she keeps stashed inside her walk-in closet, of course!
From a 2006 Tribune article:
Shopping help comes from another quarter, as well. Before Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit this past summer, Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, hit the stores — “he’s got a good sense of style” [she said] — and came home with “a sleek, simple hourglass dress with a yoke collar in winter white.” He even bought a matching coat and shoes.
Ooooh, I bet he got Michele a cute li’l number too!
“Since I was a little girl, I either wore my mother’s high heels or aspired to wear high heels,” Michele explained.
OMG, what a coinkidink, same with Marcus! What are the chances!?
“I grew up in a very male-dominated home with three brothers and a dad who was a real outdoorsman,” she said. It was only while attending law school that she became more clothes-conscious. Then came the ’90s, “when I was pregnant with one child or another,” she said. “I wasn’t particularly stylish then.”
C’mon Michy! Popping out precious li’l miracles of God every which way is the absolute perfect time for over-sized flannel shirts, faded high-waisted jeans, and MC Hammer pants.
“I dress fairly simply,” she said. “I like clean lines. I like solid colors. But I like an outfit to have a little kick.” For inspiration, she looks to Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis — and indeed, the pale pink suit and gloves she wore for President Bush’s fundraising visit in August seemed a flashback to Camelot.
That choice was inspired by a girlfriend who owned “a darling pink suit” that she had bought at Herberger’s. Bachmann thought it was the special outfit that the event required, “so my girlfriend went to get an identical one at the store’s sidewalk sale,” she said. “For $39!”
God that Marcus really is a lifesaver!
But it wasn’t until her election to the Minnesota State Senate that the 5-foot-1 Bachmann felt compelled to “take a little more care with how I looked.”
“I have a very lean wardrobe,” she said. “I get hand-me-downs from my mother, who also does a lot of garage-saling. On occasion, I’ll go to Nordstrom’s Petites and get something for full price, but only if I think I’ll get four or five years’ wear out of it.”
By then Marcus is more than happy to take if off her hands. He’s such a good girlfriend, wife, husband!