<p>Presidential scandals just hit different in 2014 — we called this one “The Audacity of Taupe.” Then-President Barack Obama was feted as a cool guy with surprisingly good style for a world leader; first lady Michelle Obama was a fashion icon in her own right, and the young family in the White House injected a Camelot-like vibrancy to the notoriously dowdy Washington, D.C., scene.</p><p>Yet when the president <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-fashion-beauty-and-fashion-united-states-government-03a06154e00743cc9e113c51e8273a5f" target="_blank" ><u>emerged on Aug. 28</u></a> to discuss foreign policy, the headlines slipped past the possibility of military action in Syria or tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Obama wore “a beige-colored jacket and a gray, striped tie,” as <a class="Link" href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2014/aug/28/obamas-tan-suit-earns-full-flop/" target="_blank" ><u>PolitiFact put it</u></a>.