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Sweeney also struggled with the pressures of planning a wedding alongside her demanding work commitments

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Invoking designer Miuccia Prada’s observation that “Fashion is instant language,” Skorton says that “These gowns speak to us, telling us much about the women who wore them.” Lisa Kathleen Graddy, curator of the First Ladies collection, expands on this idea, noting that the dresses on display—Melania’s now among them—“are all pieces of their time period, so it’s fashion of the time, but it also shows us a bit about the first ladies’ personal style, and how each wanted to project an image of herself—and potentially the administration.” She says that first impressions can be critical, and that the seemingly trifling fashion choices of first ladies can actually go a long way toward public messaging

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