Usha Vance Wears Blue Evening Dress for 2025 Inaugural Balls With JD Vance

Vice President JD Vance’s wife Usha crossed party lines so to speak by choosing a strapless shimmery blue dress to attend Monday night’s Commander-in-Chief Inaugural Ball.

The former corporate lawyer and mother-of-three appears to have upped her fashion game for the Inaugural Events. The California native opted for a peony cashmere coat with a coordinating scarf wrap and tea-length dress by Oscar de la Renta’s Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia. She polished up the look with knee-high mauve-colored suede boots. Vance also donned a black velvet strapless Oscar de la Renta evening dress that kept with the dress code for Saturday night’s Trump-Vance fundraiser, which was a black-tie affair at the National Gallery of Art. Some might wonder if the look was slightly reminiscent of John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X.” Her frock had asymmetrical floral accents and a sweetheart neckline, the former U.S. senator for Ohio and “Hillbilly Elegy” author sported a tuxedo.

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The newly installed Second Lady earned an undergraduate degree at Yale University and a post-graduate one at the University of Cambridge. During her speech last summer at the Republican National Convention, she said her father is an aerospace engineer and her mother is a provost at the University of California San Diego. For that event, she wore a cobalt blue Badgley Mischka dress.

The newcomer to The Beltway is said to be working with an in-the-know stylist whose day job is at Tory Burch, Usha Vance attended Sunday’s wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, wearing a dramatic white double-breasted statement coat.

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