I also noticed that some of the sketches seemed to have no relationship to Michelle Obama's actual body. Several of the sketches made her look like a model - very tall, pencil thin, with no hips or breasts. A dress that would look good on that body type might not look good on someone with a more curvy figure.

I suspect many of these designers are so accustomed to designing for a particular body type, that they just do it automatically - they only think of their clothes as being worn by someone with the body type of Kate Moss.