Washington, March 10: Michelle Obama has said that she’ll always cherish the moment she slipped into her inaugural ball gown, a one-shouldered, white chiffon design she wore for her first Cinderella-like spins on the dance floor as US first lady.
She will have to hold on to the memories, because the gown is not exactly hers anymore.
In keeping with tradition, Mrs Obama donated the Jason Wu design to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History yesterday. It will go on public display in a new gallery for the museum’s first ladies exhibit, featuring president’s wives from Mamie Eisenhower to the present.
Dotted with beads and covered in fabric petals, Mrs Obama’s gown was a star attraction at 10 inaugural balls held on a frigid January 20, 2009 to celebrate Barack Obama’s swearing-in earlier that day as the nation’s 44th president.
–PTI