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Emma Burleigh

Michelle Obama shares one easy tip for professionalism that built her confidence and helped her be successful

Michelle Obama (Credit: Arturo Holmes / Staff / Getty Images)

Professionals don’t know how to dress for their jobs anymore. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, workwear has relaxed, and the playbook for dressing for success has changed. It’s caused a lot of uncertainty—but former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama shared her styling tips on how to dress for the job. 

“I do not pick something that doesn’t make me feel good,” Obama recently said in conversation with Tracee Ellis Ross about her new book, The Look. “I never wear something to follow a trend. I wear things that make me feel beautiful. That is probably the first criterion.”

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