Explore the iconic inaugural fashion of U.S. first ladies from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jill Biden to Melania Trump, highlighting their symbolic styles.
While millions anticipate inaugurations for the historical milestones, the speeches and the spectacle of it all, others are laser focused on just one thing – first ladies’ fashion.
The New School’s Hazel Clark, who teaches fashion studies, said the event draws attention because it is a rite of passage, in this case for the country. And just as weddings and christenings are spectacles and are typically marked by particular forms of dress that are observed by others, so too are inaugurals, she said. “It’s the Oscar moment for the country,” Clark said.
Mamie Eisenhower chose a more elaborate ballgown for the festivities after her husband Dwight’s first inauguration in 1953. The established New York-based designer Nettie Rosenstein created a mauve peau de soie dress with more than 2,000 rhinestones. By that point in time, many women wanted to know what Truman would wear, but she held off on sharing any details or photographs with newspapers until a week before the inauguration.
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, the wife and daughter of Bill Clinton attend his inauguration as the 42nd President of the United States. Tipper Gore, the wife of Vice-president elect, Al Gore, sits to their left.When Laura Bush and her husband George W. turned up at the U.S. Capitol, she wore a sky blue dress with a coordinating coat with a black collar, and black square-heeled pumps.
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