Michelle Obama was the life of the party as she danced the day away in Martha’s Vineyard on July 15, and celebrated the birthday of a patron with a warm hug. The former First Lady looked stylish in a white structured shirt with spaghetti straps, denim culottes and sandals, paired with aviator sunglasses, gold jewelry and braided hair.
Michelle was glowing as she danced over to the mother of media star Danielle Cadet and embraced her while wishing her a happy birthday. She was then filmed dancing to “Wobble” by V.I.C. with the crowd at Nomans restaurant.
“We love seeing our forever First Lady, @michelleobama, enjoying @nomansmv just like the rest of us,” wrote Danielle in her Instagram caption. She added that Michelle had sweetly celebrated her mother’s birthday, sharing: “Even though they had never met, she made it a point to show kindness and celebrate someone else’s special day.“
Michelle has been enjoying her summer and donning more relaxed fits, after she was heavily scrutinized for her sartorial choices during her time in the White House.
“As my popularity rose, I was being covered more, and so the press enters the scene, and there are now reports,” she said on Call Her Daddy of the media attention she received ahead of her husband’s presidential win. “So, the first thing after all this conversation and connection, the top of the article would be, ‘She was wearing.‘ Not my education, not my professional career, but it started with appearance, but it got worse as we got better.“
“That quickly, my shoes become the most important thing about me,” the mother of two added. “It can happen to the best of us. So, I shied away from fashion leading the conversation.“
© Instagram/Vineyard IconMichelle explained that she and her team decided to use the heightened scrutiny around her wardrobe to her advantage.
“I knew I didn’t completely control it,” the lawyer said. “So, let’s lean in with what we do. And let’s make sure we have a plan and a strategy in place for how fashion, just like everything else in the White House, would have meaning and impact.“
© WireImageMichelle has spoken out about the racism and misogyny she faced as the First Lady, and revealed the bizarre backlash that came with wearing sleeveless dresses.
© Getty Images“I could pull up pictures of Jackie O in a second and see this fashion icon in sleeveless dresses as First Lady. So at a point you’re like, ‘Oh, this is politics,‘” she told People.
© Getty Images“‘If you can’t beat them, make everybody scared of them.‘ That was [their] motto. If it wasn’t the clothes, it was ‘that terrorist fist bump.‘ It was every word that we said. It was my husband’s tan suit.“
The discourse was ultimately water off a duck’s back for Michelle. “I knew very early on that that was nonsense. So I just kept doing what I thought suited me,” she declared.
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