The Daily Dig

Posted by Susan Reimer for baltimoresun.com
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There's a lot of chatter out there about Michelle Obama's choice of garden attire Tuesday when she harvested vegetables in the White House kitchen garden with her fifth-grader helpers.

She wore a pair of salmon-colored Levis and a striped top and flowered sweater from The Gap. And a pair of tennis shoes.

"Randy" wanted to know who wears a sweater in the garden in the summer. And where were her ratty old gardening clothes? He said she wasn't setting the right example.

Coupla things.

First. I was there. It was chilly and breezy. I wore a jacket. Sweater seems appropriate.

Second, if the national press was coming to my house, I wouldn't be caught dead in my old gardening clothes.

Third. She doesn't weed. Sam Kass, associate White House chef, told us he and the pastry chef and some White House volunteers do one big weeding every week to keep the garden in shape.

I am guessing Mrs. Obama doesn't do the housecleaning in the White House, either. But that doesn't mean she is somehow setting a bad example for the rest of us.