Michelle Obama: America's Fashionable First Lady<br />de Young Museum - de Young Museum<br />Every first lady makes an impression, whether she means to or not. Some arrive at the White House already well versed in the sartorial requirements of the job -- what Lady Bird Johnson referred to as the "harness of hairdo and gloves" -- and embrace the style-setting authority of the role as Jacqueline Kennedy did in 1961. Others resent the expectation, failing to grasp why what makes them feel comfortable should be the public's business.<br /><br />This talk looks at how first ladies -- from Dolley Madison to Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama -- have affected American style and changed the way women in this country dress for work, for the public spotlight, and for themselves.
