Inaugural ball gowns epitomize the celebrations that captivate the capital every four years.
"The inauguration is a combination of things. It's a very solemn civic ceremony, and it's also an amazing party," Graddy says.
This year, the partying was scaled back. There were two official balls, far fewer than the 10 for President Obama's first inauguration.
According to historian Richard Norton Smith, such festivities are driven by the need to recognize and reward campaign contributors and not presidential ego.
"And then, of course, the poor president has to do something he almost never otherwise does, and that is dance in public," Norton Smith says.
Luckily for President Obama, most of the attention is focused on his wife.
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