Michelle Obama Wears Multiple Dresses for Her Final Tonight Show Appearance
By Erika Harwood. Photos: Getty Images.
After many appearances on The Tonight Show over the last eight years, Michelle Obama visited for the last time as First Lady last night. She took over Jimmy Fallon’s desk and wrote thank-you notes, played Catchphrase with Dave Chappelle and Jerry Seinfeld, and surprised her biggest fans while they thanked her for her service. And it wouldn’t be a Michelle Obama appearance without some noteworthy dresses.
During her interview, the First Lady wore a knee-length black dress along with zipper embellishments, adding a bit of edge to her classic style. She wore yet another dress (this was her last hurrah, after all) in a pre-taped video of her surprising people who believed they were recording good-bye messages to her (and were instructed to speak to a portrait before the real FLOTUS emerged from behind a curtain). She cinched her flowing black-and-white striped dress with a thin black belt while hugging stunned, teary-eyed supporters.
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Obama has spent the last week wearing darker hues, like the navy Jason Wu dress she wore to President Barack Obama’s farewell address, perhaps a nod to the countdown of the family’s days left in the White House.
While Michelle Obama’s legacy will be largely about her work to promote healthy living, especially for children, she’ll also be remembered as a First Lady who used her fashion sense to make statements of support and solidarity to her peers and the public. She’s also spent years showing off her fun, and stylish, side on television alongside comedians like Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres, and James Corden, all while holding her own.
This story originally appeared on Vanity Fair.
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