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WASHINGTON, Dec 7, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The White House's latest crisis came in the form of a fashion disaster when three holiday party guests arrived wearing the same dress as first lady Laura Bush.
The president's wife, who was wearing the $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta dress for the official presidential holiday photo, chose not to say the course and went upstairs to change her outfit, CBS News reported Thursday.
"She went upstairs and changed, very easy for her to do. It was the right thing to do, take the heat off the other women," said party guest Letitia Baldridge, Jacqueline Kennedy's Chief of Staff and White House social secretary.
The first lady's office said Mr. and Mrs. Bush were amused by the incident, which the office said was a White House first.
"They all should have congratulated one another on their good taste and the fact that they could afford the dress," Baldridge said. "Jacqueline Kennedy, when she was first lady made sure, and her couturiers made sure that nobody else wore that dress that season."
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