Melania Trump’s High Heels

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/melania-trump.html

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To the Editor:

“Melania Trump, Off to Texas, Finds Herself on Thin Heels,” by Vanessa Friedman (On the Runway, nytimes.com, Aug. 30), was inappropriate. I am no fan of any of the Trump family, but this column crossed the line from valid critique to nit-picking.

The woman is a former model, married to a rich man and accustomed to dressing well according to high fashion standards. Her husband ran for office; she did not. The fact that she wore high heels when boarding a plane, regardless of her destination, is not newsworthy.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and shoes are just shoes, not “the go-to stand-in for more nuanced, complicated emotions and issues.” Give Melania, and us all, a break.

DENNIS DONELSON, SAN ANTONIO