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Americans Are FURIOUS Over What Jeff Bezos’s Fiancée Wore to Biden’s State Dinner With the Leader of Japan

The couple has been awarded one Yike from the National Committee of Yikes.

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Let me just start by saying I’m conflicted on this one. On the one hand, I absolutely support every woman’s right to wear anything she wants at any time.

However, I am also a fashion/style/event guy — I wear sneakers to the store, and my navy inset black double-wingtip derbys to a show — and I feel like people need to capture the tone of a situation before they get ready for it.

Needless to say, anyone with the pedigree of Jeff Bezos or the woman he’s engaged to should likely favor that second option when it comes to attending a state dinner at the White House.

The second-richest person on the planet could certainly afford to hire a wardrobe advisor for his fiancée.

When the two showed up for the state dinner for Japan at the White House, an event that one should definitely try to dress appropriately for, Bezos’ betrothed was draped in a red dress that covered her from the waist down. The rest of the dress leaves little to the imagination.

And it’s not that she’s not allowed to wear what she wants, it’s just… TO A STATE DINNER? Really? Ambassadors and emissaries and leaders of countries all in attendance, and you’re going to pick your sexiest dress?

Maybe tone it down a tiny bit. And maybe that’s why folks got so upset about the whole thing — because if any of US were invited to such an event, we might not act quite as entitled as to treat it like the Oscars ceremony.

As you can imagine, the internet went crazy:

Take a look at the furor one red dress caused:

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