The First Feet

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Last month, Michelle Obama became the first First Lady to wear vintage to a public event, and now her husband has pioneered another presidential look: Flip-flops. According to the New York Post, no other American president has ever revealed his feet in public. And the Post consulted two presidential historians, a shoe expert, and a professor of public policy on this important political matter, so you know it's got to be true. [NYP; Previously]