Washington (CNN) It's been five years since then-President Barack Obama gave a news conference at the White House and announced "we don't have a strategy yet" to combat ISIS in Syria. It was a serious and consequential development, which, Obama added, he hoped to remedy shortly by meeting with his military and national security advisers.

Yet, when the news conference ended, the general talk of the day was not about a lack of strategy in the fight against a terror group in the Middle East.

Instead, it was about taupe, the color of the suit Obama was wearing that day.

Five years in Washington can feel like a lifetime ago, and the way Obama's suit was covered then, versus where something as trivial would fall in today's news cycle, is for many an example of just how much the times have changed.

The crux of the issue was the shock of seeing Obama stepping out on his normal, traditional blue or gray suits that it caused such a divisive disturbance in America's normal sartorial acceptance of the President's choices. New York Rep. Peter King zeroed in on it during a CNN appearance at the time, saying it made the country look less serious about taking on ISIS.

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