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

As usual, First Lady Michelle Obama received Mrs. Melania Trump - wife of newly elected President Donald Trump at the White House.

According toGlamourThe meeting was somewhat awkward and the American press focused too much on this and forgot a very important detail, which was what outfit Mrs. Michelle chose to wear to meet Mrs. Melania.

First Lady Michelle Obama receives Mrs. Melania Trump - wife of newly elected President Donald Trump. Photo: White House

The magazine said that the dress that Mrs. Michelle wore was designed by famous designer Narciso Rodriguez and was dark purple, similar to the color of the dress Mrs. Clinton wore when she read her speech admitting her defeat to Mr. Trump in the US presidential election.

So what message does Michelle want to send to the public? According to the newspaperGlamour, purple is traditionally associated with sadness. That’s how many people, especially in the Democratic Party, feel after Trump’s surprise victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Moreover, purple is also a combination of blue and red - the symbolic colors of the Democratic and Republican parties, a combination that represents First Lady Michelle's hope that the two parties can come closer together instead of being deeply divided as before.

Finally, purple was also one of three colors chosen as their official color by the early American suffragists.

Not only was First Lady Michelle meticulous in choosing the color, she was also sophisticated in choosing designer Narciso Rodriguez - a Cuban-American and the child of immigrants to the US - to design that special dress for her.

Although Michelle has worn Rodriguez's designs for the past eight years, wearing the purple dress in her final days as First Lady shows that she still supports immigrants and hopes that Trump will continue her husband's legacy of reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.

This shows that, despite always standing by President Obama's side to support him through the ups and downs of his 8 years in office, Mrs. Michelle still knows how to "speak her own voice" in an extremely skillful and subtle way./.

According to VOV