She is smartly turned out, but then it helps if your husband is the most powerful man on the planet.
America’s fashionistas agree that Laura Bush has never looked better. If George Bush's first term in the White House saw her look a little like our mothers, in the second term she has decided to become the proverbial swan. It also helped she switched her designers, moving from the Dallas-based Michael Faircloth to New York's de la Renta.
You can see evidence of it here. But is it enough to make you vote for her?
Image: US First Lady Laura Bush walks through the Wismar harbour on June 7, when the G-8 wives decided to take off together.
Photograph: Krafft Angerer/Getty Images
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