Fashion Is Just Part of the Fabric of First Lady's Life: Washington Post

Quoted via Washington Post:

Finally, it may be that fashion enthusiasts have become accustomed to the sight of a first lady who rarely wears suits, who prefers her dresses form-fitting and who has, perhaps, never seen a brooch that she could resist.

Michelle Obama visited an orphanage in Moscow; she toured the earthquake zone in L'Aquila, Italy, and she withstood the heat of Accra, Ghana, in a series of ensembles that reassured fashion folks that her contemporary style was not a fluke but, at the same time, did not send them into such spasms of rapture that they couldn't focus on what she said or did. The long season of widespread Obama fashion mania may finally have passed.

All it took was a little white sheath with black ribbon embroidery by Jason Wu. It was a fashion repeat. She'd worn the dress last year during a Barbara Walters interview. The do-over served as a reminder -- although none should have been necessary -- that the only people who don't re-wear their clothes are those who don't have to pay for them. See: Hollywood's red carpet. The first lady is not a starlet. more