Why did First Lady Michelle Obama wear a purple dress to greet Mrs. Trump?

As is customary, First Lady Michelle Obama received Melania Trump, the wife of President-elect Donald Trump, at the White House.

According toGlamourThe meeting was somewhat awkward, and the American press focused so much on this that they overlooked a very important detail: what outfit Michelle Obama chose to wear to meet Melania.

First Lady Michelle Obama receives Melania Trump, wife of President-elect Donald Trump. Photo: White House.

The magazine reported that the dress Michelle wore was designed by renowned designer Narciso Rodriguez and was a deep purple, similar to the color of the dress Clinton wore when she delivered her concession speech to Trump in the US presidential election.

So what message does Michelle Obama want to send to the public? According to the newspaper.GlamourTypically, purple is associated with sadness and grief. That was also the feeling of many people, especially within the Democratic Party, after Trump's unexpected victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Furthermore, purple is a combination of blue and red – the symbolic colors of the Democratic and Republican parties, a combination that reflects First Lady Michelle's hope that these two parties can come closer together instead of remaining deeply divided as they were before.

Finally, purple is also one of the three colors chosen as the official color by American voters who participated in the earlier suffrage movement.

Not only was First Lady Michelle meticulous in her choice of color, but she also showed great taste in selecting designer Narciso Rodriguez – a Cuban-American and the son of immigrants to the United States – to design that special dress for her.

Although Michelle Obama had favored Rodriguez's designs for the past eight years, wearing the aforementioned purple dress in her final days as First Lady showed her continued support for immigrants and her hope that Trump would continue her husband's legacy of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.

This shows that, despite always standing by and supporting President Obama through the ups and downs of his eight years in office, Michelle always knew how to "express her own voice" in an extremely skillful and subtle way.

According to VOV