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One Tear-Jerking Last Look At Michelle Obama's Best Outfits Of 2016

One Tear-Jerking Last Look At Michelle Obama's Best Outfits Of 2016
US First Lady Michelle Obama poses for a photo as she welcomes the wife of Italian Prime Minister, Agnese Landini, on the North Portico of the White House before a state dinner in Washington, DC on October 18, 2016. / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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US First Lady Michelle Obama poses for a photo as she welcomes the wife of Italian Prime Minister, Agnese Landini, on the North Portico of the White House before a state dinner in Washington, DC on October 18, 2016. / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

We spent a large part of 2016 celebrating Michelle Obama’s legacy and trying our best to ignore the imminent end of her tenure as first lady. She has done a great deal to help distract us from the latter, blessing the masses with arguably her best dressed year yet.

Sure, FLOTUS has had too many incredible style moments to count over the past eight years, but she really turned it out for the farewell tour. This rose gold Atelier Versace moment serves as proof.

Nothing can prepare us for the dark day looming in the distance when she passes along her title and the slew of best-dressed opportunities that come with it to the incoming first lady. But as they say, it’s better to smile because it happened than to cry because it’s over.

It’s in that spirit that we present 11 of Michelle’s best looks of 2016, which we intend to scroll up and down over and over again for the remainder of this year.