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Barack Obama is back to the grind after spending a few weeks on vacation earlier this year, and his style appears to have evolved. The former president, known for his dad jeans and headline-making suits during his administration, has elevated his post-presidency style, wearing a brown leather jacket and a pair of dark wash, slim bootcut jeans while out in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Obama was visiting the National Gallery of Art with Michelle Obama, who wore head-to-toe black.

The leather jacket marks a new, more relaxed phase in Obamas style evolution (as do the new jeans). He looks, for lack of a better description, pretty cool. As president, he wore suits that rarely made headlinessave for the aforementioned tan number. This new outfit, with a fitted jacket, less-dad-like jeans, and matching brown shoes and belt, show a laid-back man without the weight of the free world on his shoulders. Whats next? Maybe a Rocky-esque sweatsuit (this could be his time to finally take up CrossFit) or a the same leather jacket in black. Whos to say how Obamas post-Oval Office duds will change, really? He can wear whatever he wants now!

This occasion marked Obamas second public appearance since returning from his Caribbean vacation. He was first spotted in New York on February 24, surrounded by supporters and a Secret Service detail. He was leaving a meeting with the Simons Foundation, which is reported to be involved with Obamas Presidential Library in Chicago.

As People noted, the National Gallery of Art trip is Obamas first appearance since denouncing President Trumps claims that the Obama administration had tapped his phones in Trump Tower before the election. We'll leave it to the tabloids to determine exactly what kind of statement, if any, he's making with that leather jacket.

While biking with his daughter Sasha in 2008, President Obama wore a polo with a pair of jeans that forced many of us to ask: Wheres the flood?

He then wore a baggier pair during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania a week before the 2008 electiona risky move that ultimately paid off.

The president may have thought it was safe to wear his favorite pair of jeans in the confines of Air Force One in 2008, but there were cameras everywhere.

The president was on dad duty and wearing the ultimate dad uniform watching daughter Malias soccer game in 2009.

While taking a walk with Malia in 2014, Obama appeared to be making wiser denim choices.

After years of trial and error, Obamas taste in jeans seemed to be changing by 2015.

On October 31, 2016, after eight years in office, the president wore a pair of a well-fitted, dark-wash jeans, achieving what many who enter politics hoping to achieve: the status of a style icon.

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While biking with his daughter Sasha in 2008, President Obama wore a polo with a pair of jeans that forced many of us to ask: Wheres the flood?

By Alex Brandon/A.P.

He then wore a baggier pair during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania a week before the 2008 electiona risky move that ultimately paid off.

By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

The president may have thought it was safe to wear his favorite pair of jeans in the confines of Air Force One in 2008, but there were cameras everywhere.

By Alex Brandon/A.P.

The president was on dad duty and wearing the ultimate dad uniform watching daughter Malias soccer game in 2009.

By Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.

By Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images.

While at Camp David in 2010, a young girl appeared to prefer sitting on the ground rather than next to Obamas 90s-style jeans.

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During a visit to D.C.s International Spy Museum in 2010, Obama paired his loose-fitting jeans with a pair of black sandals that only a dad would have the confidence to wear.

By Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images.

Michelle and Sasha appear to share a laugh at the expense of the the presidents choice in pants while on a trip to Florida during the summer of 2010.

By Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.

The black sandals reemerge on a boat later in 2010.

By Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.

While taking a walk with Malia in 2014, Obama appeared to be making wiser denim choices.

By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images.

After years of trial and error, Obamas taste in jeans seemed to be changing by 2015.

By Greg E. Mathieson Sr./Rex/Shutterstock.

On October 31, 2016, after eight years in office, the president wore a pair of a well-fitted, dark-wash jeans, achieving what many who enter politics hoping to achieve: the status of a style icon.

By Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images.

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