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Texasgal

(17,042 posts)
Mon Jan 21, 2013, 12:26 AM Jan 2013

Decades of glamour

All eyes will be on President Obama at noon tomorrow when he makes his public inauguration address but come the evening the world's attention will inevitably turn to the First Lady and the gown she has chosen to wear to the couple's second inauguration ball.
Though Michelle Obama certainly has the knack for getting it right in the fashion stakes, she may want to cast her eye over some of the inauguration dresses chosen by First Ladies gone by.
The Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington D.C. has a collection of the First Ladies choices going back 100 years, from Helen Taft to the present day.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265466/Inauguration-ballgowns-years-From-traditional-glitzy-look-dresses-chosen-Americas-First-Ladies-speculation-mounts-Michelle-Obama-wear-ball.html#ixzz2Ia4ut4IX
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Decades of glamour (Original Post) Texasgal Jan 2013 OP
I have a sense that she has done observed them. 2naSalit Jan 2013 #1
Honestly I'm getting tired of the focus on the female in the picture being all about her looks flamingdem Jan 2013 #2

2naSalit

(86,508 posts)
1. I have a sense that she has done observed them.
Mon Jan 21, 2013, 01:55 AM
Jan 2013

ON Edit: I like Hillary's gown most of all the gowns shown. Lady Bird's was a coat with fur, yikes.

flamingdem

(39,312 posts)
2. Honestly I'm getting tired of the focus on the female in the picture being all about her looks
Mon Jan 21, 2013, 02:09 AM
Jan 2013

bangs gowns .. I love all that but it's overdone to the point of reducing women to armcandy.

I hope we have a woman president and soon!

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