Hillary Clinton, can you please stop getting cooler and cooler? You're making the rest of us look bad.

The secretary of state took to the podium at the swearing-in ceremony for her Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs, Mike Hammer, on Thursday night. Everything was business as usual until Sec. Clinton pulled out a mysterious white box. She explained:

"We're also here to celebrate the color purple. And Mike, I was in a real dilemma. I have pantsuits in nearly every color... except purple. And so I've got to get appropriately attired -- as you can see the entire family is appropriately attired -- and thanks to the good work of the PA staff..."

Purple, it turns out, is known to be Hammer's favorite color.

Clinton then put on purple beads, tossed her hair (as she's wont to do), and slipped on some cocktail rings.

But Sec. Clinton wasn't done, adding, "Then, of course, the piece de resistance..." She then pulled out a pair of wild green and purple cat-eye sunglasses and proceeded to walk Hammer through his oaths in full Mardi Gras garb.

Wild shades, popping her collar and drinking wine in a castle? Confidential to Hillary: even though you give us an inferiority complex, please stay awesome.

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• July 1979 with First Lady Rosalyn Carter (Hillary in navy)

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• January 1990 at a Chicago Cubs game

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• September 1991 in a formal campaign photo

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• October 1991 with Bill & Chelsea in Arkansas

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• November 1991 on the campaign trail in New Hampshire

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• November 1991 on the campaign trail in New Hampshire

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• January 1992

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• July 1992 with Tipper Gore

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• July 1992 at a rally in St. Louis, Missouri

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• July 1992 at a party for Bill Clinton

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• August 1992 with Al & Tipper Gore

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• October 1992 at a Presidential rally

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• January 1993 at the Inaugural Ball

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• June 1993 speaking at the White House

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• November 1994 with Princess Diana in Washington, D.C.

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• July 1998 in New Jersey

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• April 1999 at a Whitehouse Dinner in Washington, D.C.

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• April 2001 at the Costume Institute Gala in NYC

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• November 2004 at the Annual Promise Ball in NYC

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• May 2005 at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Hosts "The Downtown Dinner"

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• May 2007 in London, England

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• August 2007 at the 'Late Show With David Letterman' in NYC

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• May 2008 on her Presidential Campaign in Portland, OR

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• August 2008 at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO

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• November 2008 at the 19th Annual Glamour Women Of The Year Awards in NYC

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• November 2009 in Singapore

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• May 2010 in Washington, D.C.

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• July 2010 at Chelsea's wedding

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• December 2011 at the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner

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• April 2012 at FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women Dinner

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• May 2012 at the Symposium On Global Agriculture And Food Security

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