A Look Back at Young Barack and Michelle Obama’s Style

Southside With You, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews from The Hollywood Reporter, follows a young Barack and Michelle Obama on their first date in Chicago in 1989. In honor of the film trailer’s release last month, we’re looking back at old-school snapshots of the president and first lady, from their college years to their wedding day. Southside With You hits theaters Aug. 19 — but first, take a gander at their throwback photos below.

 

A photo posted by The White House (@whitehouse) on Jan 17, 2014 at 11:25am PST

How cute is a young Michelle Obama in a yellow dress with matching hair bow and white gloves? The White House posted the image in honor of the first lady’s 50th birthday in 2014. 

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Barack Obama was perfectly preppy in a blue and yellow striped tie and blazer, walking in his high school graduation ceremony in 1979.

The future president of the United States was casual in jeans and a button up on Harvard’s campus after he was named head of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

President Obama donned a turtleneck and leather bomber jacket on campus at Harvard University in 1992, where he attended law school.

 

A photo posted by First Lady Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on Aug 4, 2013 at 9:54am PDT

Michelle Obama posted a sweet snap of the young couple in celebration of the president’s birthday in 2013. 

 

A photo posted by First Lady Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on Oct 3, 2014 at 5:05pm PDT

The couple celebrated 23 years of marriage in October 2015.