By Vanessa Friedman Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at age ... via CNP/Getty Images Instead of wearing a new gown to the inaugural balls, Mrs. Carter wore the same caftan-like, high-neck ...

Betty Ford wore a blue skirt suit for his swearing-in ceremony. Rosalynn Carter's blue chiffon inaugural gown, designed by Mary Matise for Jimmae, was the same dress that she wore to Jimmy Carter ...

But Rosalynn Carter, an early adopter of the trend, did not receive the same reception when she recycled her Mary Matise-designed gold-trimmed gown to the inaugural ball in 1977 following Jimmy ...

Rosalynn Carter began her ... of swanning into the 1977 inaugural balls wrapped in a showstopping couture confection, she opted for the dated ice-blue chiffon gown she had worn for her husband ...

From Rosalynn Carter to Melania Trump, first ladies have long used their Inauguration Day outfits to make statements — whether about their own images, incoming presidents’ priorities or the ...

Rosalynn Carter, the formidable first lady who ... Rosalynn wore the same blue chiffon gown to the inaugural balls that she had worn six years earlier to Jimmy’s gubernatorial ball, in keeping ...

When Eleanor Rosalynn ... out that Carter was going to be the 39th president of the United States. The president and first lady put their best feet forward at a series of inaugural balls ...

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter ... the same blue chiffon gown that she had first worn to her husband’s 1971 inauguration ball as governor for his presidential inaugural ball.

Rosalynn Carter, the formidable first lady who ... Rosalynn wore the same blue chiffon gown to the inaugural balls that she had worn six years earlier to Jimmy’s gubernatorial ball, in keeping ...