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The dress that Michelle Obama wore the night her husband was inaugurated as US President is going on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC. The First Lady personally presented the white chiffon gown at the museum on Tuesday, along with its young designer, Jason Wu. It will join more than a dozen other inauguration gowns from former first ladies in a recently reopened exhibition.
Ball gown donated to Smithsonian Museum
In keeping with tradition, Mrs. Obama donated the Jason Wu design to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History on Tuesday. 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 Jan. 20, 2009 to celebrate Barack Obama's swearing-in earlier that day as the nation's 44th president.
Michelle Obama speaking at National Museum
Michelle Obama said Tuesday 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 first lady.

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