The presidential inauguration has long been an opportunity for the first lady to make an immediate first impression — and ...

Incoming first lady Melania Trump emerged on Monday, Jan. 20, in an unusual inaugural outfit, covering part of her face with ...

Eleanor Roosevelt posing in the Sally Milgrim gown that she wore to her husband Franklin’s second inaugural festivities in ...

Melania wore a floor-length white, strapless gown with a ribbon-like piece of black material wrapped around the dress designed by Pierre who also created her look for the 2017 Inauguration Balls for ...

Below are some of the first ladies whose inauguration ... according to the Smithsonian. The Nettie Rosenstein-designed dress featured more than 2,000 hand-sewn rhinestones, and was accompanied ...

The first lady’s sartorial choices throughout ... That was intentional, as Johnson considered the dress’s second life in the Smithsonian exhibit when making her choice, according to the ...

At her husband’s first inaugural ball in 2017, Trump wore a white silk crepe Hervé Pierre gown with an off-the-shoulder neckline, slit skirt and a red ribbon around the waist, which she similarly ...

In 1912 when the Smithsonian was piecing together a centennial ... Four years later for her husband’s second swearing-in ceremony, the first lady wore an electric blue Adolfo ensemble – a wool crepe ...