Published Jan 13, 2017 at 2:14 PM | Updated at 10:54 AM EDT on Oct 20, 2017
When first lady Michelle Obama dazzled the room at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in 2009 in a Jason Wu gown, President Barack Obama asked the crowd, "How good-looking is my wife?"
Fifty years before the Obamas, Jackie Kennedy stunned the Inaugural Gala at the National Guard Armory on Jan. 19, 1961 in an ivory silk satin evening gown by Oleg Cassini, on the evening before the inauguration.
From Eleanor Roosevelt's gown in 1933 to Michelle Obama's striking red dress in 2013, see how fashion for first ladies' inauguration has changed throughout the years.