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Obama’s Dress Joins History

By Elizabeth Brotherton
Roll Call Staff
March 11, 2010, Midnight

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History officially expanded its popular “First Ladies at the Smithsonian” exhibition Wednesday, welcoming first lady Michelle Obama’s dazzling one-shouldered, white-silk chiffon inaugural gown as its new centerpiece. While the Jason Wu-designed dress is the exhibit’s newest piece, there also are about 1,000 other first lady-related treasures, including a dress and dressing mirror once owned by the first first lady, Martha Washington.

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