The Obama family in 2008 on election night.
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She paired the Narciso Rodriguez dress with a simple black cardigan. The dress was utterly flattering with its black criss-cross waist, Verena von Pfetten at HuffPost wrote in 2008, and the elongating blend of red into black delightfully accentuated her statuesque stature. And mostly, it was interesting to look at. Which is something to be said with regards to the usual wallflower role to which First Ladies are usually relegated a role to which I d imagine Michelle Obama would not take kindly, dress or no dress.
In 2008, Michelle Obama wore a memorable fiery red dress on election night.