Mad hattery

Okay, a lot of people like to snipe at First Lady Michelle Obama's fashion sense. Well, at least she didn't show up at any events of state wearing a chapeau like THIS:


And she was never seen in a, er, creation like THIS one sported by the wife of the president of Cameroon. Tim Blair's caption reads thusly: "Pope Benedict XVI chats with Cameroon’s President Paul Biya. The building in the background is actually a hat, below which Biya’s wife Chantal is slowly having her spine compressed:"



(Top photo credit: bluefly.com; second photo, news.com.au)