Jill Biden's 2021 inaugural coat
name: label: user
content: Biden, Jill
notes: label: Description
content: For the 2021 inaugural ceremony, Jill Biden wore this ocean blue wool tweed coat embellished with scattered brilliants and velvet collar and cuffs over a matching wool tweed dress with a chiffon bodice embellished with Swarovski pearls and crystals. The color was chosen to signify trust. Dr. Biden wore them with a matching silk mask. The ensemble was designed by Alexandra O’Neil under her Markarian brand.
label: Description
content: Jill Biden became first lady with years of experience serving as second lady during the Obama administration and quickly became a trailblazer as the first first lady to work outside the White House. Dr. Biden balances her official duties with her job as a professor at Northern Virginia Community College.
label: Description
content: As first lady she has relaunched her Joining Forces initiative to support military families, advocated for the administration’s legislative initiatives, promoted partnership with the United States on a trip to Latin America, supported athletes at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Japan, encouraged Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19, met with victims of gun violence in Buffalo and Uvalde, and traveled to Ukraine to meet with first lady Olena Zelenska in a show of American support for the Ukranian people
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: First Ladies
label: web subject
content: Inaugurations
label: related event
content: Presidential Inauguration of 2021
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content: Political History: Political History, First Ladies Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alexandria O'Neil of Markarian in honor of First Lady Jill Biden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0003.02
label: accession number
content: 2023.0003
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0003.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coat
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 116 cm x 62 cm; 45 21/32 in x 24 13/32 in