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Hallo Readers,

You may recall the famous scene in the first Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker and Obi -Wan Kenobi walk into the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine to find it full of every sort of weird alien species. It was a dark and threatening place. But if you think that was bad, just you wait until you see the lineup of the rich and powerful in attendance at the inauguration of America’s 47th president on Monday 20 January. Given that the weather forecast is it will be the coldest inauguration day since Ronald Reagan in 1985, it would be a lie were WTF to deny that she was hoping that at least a few of them would contract a serious case of frostbite, but it has not been announced that the ceremony will be moved indoors. Unlike 47 and Mrs 47, who boycotted the event on 20 January 2020, 46 will be there as well as his First Lady, and the Vice President, who lost to 47, the Second Gentleman, who is married to the Vice President who lost to 47, and members of the Senate and Congress, as well as former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. And of course there will be members of 47’s family, including his daughter Tiffany, by his second marriage, whom he regularly seems to forget is actually his daughter at all. And there will be Elon Musk, who now sticks to 47 like shit to a blanket. In addition, paying obeisance, will be the billionaires who used to diss him but now crawl up his fundament, doing his bidding in order to keep the cash flowing in. Step forward, Jeff Bezos from Amazon, now only the world’s second richest man, who is busy slowly disembowelling the Washington Post (which he owns) to prevent it being too hostile and who has done a deal to pay Mrs 47 $40m for a televised biography on Prime; Steve Zuckerberg from Meta, who has now abandoned fact checking because the truth is no longer welcome or, indeed, desirable; Sundai Pinchi from Google, who is starting to tow the 47 line; and Tim Cook from Apple who has coughed up £1m for the Inauguration Fund. Our own Nigel Farage will be there because it will be a lot more fun than a Saturday surgery in Clacton. As will Rudy Giuliani, fresh from settling with the two election workers to whom he owed $160 million for defaming them and who was repeatedly found to have been in contempt of court. Sadly, 47 will not have enough time to pardon the January 6 rioters now locked up in penitentiaries various across the country because he cannot do anything presidential until he has taken the oath. 46 had Lady Gaga and J.Lo. 47 will be serenaded by Village People.

The MAGAmorons are indignant at the announcement that Michelle Obama will not be there, just as she failed to show at the state funeral for President Jimmy Carter. Nancy Pelosi, whom WTF wants to be when she grows up, has also announced that she will be washing her hair and unable to attend. This is seen as a terrible snub and a breach of protocol, despite the absence of 47 and Mrs 47 four years ago. Honestly though, come on. Why on earth would you want to freeze your bits off on a bitterly cold Monday in January watching an election denier, a man who tried to overturn the will of the people four years back,  a convicted felon and a civilly adjudicated sex offender and a barefaced liar, take an oath on the Bible he doesn’t read to uphold the constitution he intends to circumvent? WTF’s television will be tuned to something else. She might be outside, creosoting the shed. And she doesn’t even have a shed. God help us all…

Oh, if you are wondering why WTF is not writing about the ceasefire and hostage exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas, it is because she will believe it when she sees it. Let us see what the weekend brings.

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We start our review of the week’s abject attire with actor Meagan Good wearing something absurd.

Meagan has fabulous legs but in addition to showing us all of them, she is also putting horrified bystanders in fear of an imminent Minge Moment by parading about in what is basically a crimson horse blanket with matchy-matchy shoes.

Next up, we have actor Jamie Foxx wearing a very lairy blazer at the premiere of his Netflix movie Back in Action.

He looks like he is appearing in an American remake of Hi Di Hi. The trousers are tragic and those shoes were last spotted on Coco the Clown.

We are now in New York where we encounter actor and star of Wickd, Cynthia Erivo. wearing Loewe. Scroll down slowly.

Seriously? Who knew that Loewe made lampshades?

Say hi to singer Justin Bieber at a pal’s birthday party in a Beverley Hills bowling alley, wearing trousers by Marni and hideous Balenciaga boots.

Those are not boots. Those are storage boxes. As for the alleged Marni trousers, they are not trousers, not even of any kind. They are super-capacious  pyjamas. If, Heaven forfend, anything fiery had happened to the Bieber household, he, his wife Hayley Baldwin and the new baby Bieber could have moved in to those trousers and set up home. And still had room for visitors.

WTF is sorry to bring a member of the Kardashian family into the blog, Joyce from Hong Kong, but you HAVE to see Khloe Kardashian wearing a  Swarovski x Skims bodysuit (a company owned by her sister Kim) and a Haider Ackermann satin trench coat.

MINGE!!!!!! MASSES OF MINGE!!!!!!!! PUBERAMA!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!

And finally, we have singer Robbie Williams in New York wearing a leopardskin coat.

Sigh. Robbie appears to have taken to using the same maquillage as President-Elect Trump and is the colour of a radio-active satsuma. As for the coat, he has raided the wardrobe of the late, lamented Bet Lynch from Coronation Street.

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado MsAlliance, who messaged WTF on BlueSky (@wtffashionshark.bsky.social) to rage about bubble jeans. Like these ones from Frame which cost £300.

She asks, “You know What’s Got To Go? Bubble jeans. I know we have to be kind to ourselves and others but I think that the fashion people’s general acceptance of  the “has rickets” look is letting those with responsibility for public health off the hook”. She is so right. It’s Got to Go.  

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Keep your tip top comments coming through (they have been sparse of late and you know how WTF frets when that happens) as well as your splendid suggestions for It’s Got To Go. And do follow me on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x