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Michelle
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Valerie Bustamante
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ith her signature 60s style up-do, and smokey eye shadow and Jackie O-esque fashion — Texas Lutheran University’s first lady Michelle Dorsey always stands out in a crowd. Whether she is arm-in-arm with her husband, TLU president Stuart Dorsey, at a university event or talking to her student ambassadors, Michelle loves to play with her fashion and style. A long-time lover of clothes and shoes, Michelle said it all started when she was a teenager. “The fateful day when I started working as a junior in high school and I had money, it went straight to clothes,” 14 Seguin ~ Guadalupe County living
she said. “Unfortunately, I didn’t have a junior’s body so I wore dumb clothes. When I got into my 30s I said ‘OK, I’m going to dress for me’ and I became more confident about it.” Just as her personal style has evolved, Michelle has enjoyed seeing women’s fashion change as well, she said. “When I first started working at a bank we were required to wear suits and that’s fine, but the suits back then looked boxy,” she said. “They didn’t show any of our figures and didn’t acknowledge that we were women. We wore an oxford cloth button-down shirt that you had to iron. Then we wore little bowties, so we basically looked like men in