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Just watched them dance at the Midland Ball.

MO just looks so unhappy.

BO always gives her a peck on the cheek and she can’t even eek out a smile.

She’s tripping on her dress alot too, probably quite irritating.

She doesn't seem to know how to hold it up. At the Home State ball, she kicked her feet out sideways to get up the steps. And when dancing, she kept stopping to yank the train out of her way. She's just not very graceful or feminine in that "dress". In post 350, it looked like the hem was filthy already.

I don’t think Michelle is the formal type. She will not be comfortable at these events period. Doesn’t bode well for state dinners and visiting heads of state in other countries.

Yet another way her people failed her, she should have at least one backup gown if not more and should already be IN that backup dress.

"She’s tripping on her dress alot too, probably quite irritating."

It is nearly impossible to dance in a floor-length dress, and the train would have to make it even worse. I remember a Broadway show where the show's stars were taking bows after the performance, and the women, in long dresses, all vigorously kicked the back hem of their dresses back, just before they took a big step backwards when a new line of actors/actresses came onstage in front of them to take their bows. At first, I didn't know what they were doing, but after some experience with a long skirt, myself, I realized that in order to back up, you have to get the skirt in the back out of the way of your feet or you will step on it for sure. To a great extent, it works that way for walking forward, too, with a skirt that is truly floor-length. Stepping sideways is not quite so bad but can still be a problem. When you are dancing, you can't stop dead and kick the hem of the dress out of the way every step or so. I bet he was stepping on it as well. The designer really should have thought of that. Long skirts that are truly floor-length are quite hard to manage.