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Know what guys, I would like to suggest Free People. Only one person I believe this would even remotely apply to was Hillary Clinton.
All I have to do is change my hairstyle, I’d say in case I ever need to get Bosnia off the front page.
She had a great quote about this. She said she just liked to make sudden changes and refresh herself. Usually, she did change her hair cut and style a few times during her ‘eight year’ incumbency. With that said, it did seem to correspond with different chapters in her time, from leading the effort for health care reform, to focusing more on international problems, to hereafter running for the Senate when her hair was cut very short. I tend to think people tried to read identical core person -but it is a sign of someone who doesn’t know themselves….and consequently she became the main Lady in history to be elected to political office.
They did detect something significantly unique about her clothes and it was the fact that she often had a direct role in designing them for herself, even if the public didn’t know -or public did not widely know this fact at the time. For the sake of example wanting a gown that looked like those from Ancient Roman friezes to wear for a dinner honoring those in the fine and performing arts, or in shades of oranges, yellowish and pink for her trip to India where she knew that those colors had cultural significance, as someone who wrote a full life oral history biography of her I would have to say that everything about her style was entirely rooted in her substance -her knowledge of history. As a result, not until years later, even after her death, that sketches from her youth began to show her talent and skill for design.
By the way, the way the press release about her gown was written, it didn’t make it explicit just how central a role Jackie Kennedy had been in designing her own gown, even if there was intense fascination and even fighting among the clothing industry press to get copies of drawings of what she might wear.
Later when her designer Oleg Cassini, known as a costume designer in Hollywood and not general ‘high fashion’ clothes for sale to the public, published his book, he revealed the memos and detailed notes she sent him about what she wanted for different state dinners or foreign trips.
She was extremely talented in so many fields, intellectual, visual and artistic, even looking at the human behavior, that she put to good use in offering to the President her analysis of world leaders and powerful people. I must honestly say that I don’t know that there was significance apart from a) they liked the designs these designers proposed to them and b) they thought the exposure might New York City industry -and so it was a way for these two women to perhaps give their fellow Texan and Arkansan some media exposure which should hopefully lead to more commissions and I don’t know anything more.
When I was invited into the private rooms, I do know that it did still exist throughout the Clinton years since I personally saw it. Regarding your first question it’s true that Pat Nixon accepted the supplies and machinery for a beauty shop that were donated to the White House by a cosmetology association, and she had them installed in a small room on the second floor, in the family quarters.
In 1987 I did unearth a forgotten dauggereotype that was created from her by a Anthony Studios in NYC.
She was 24 when she eloped with President Tyler -and she certainly looks it in this image, as you probably know.
She is holding a pen in that picture. I used copies of the image in two of my books, Ladies, volume 1, as well as America’s Families. That said, this image is also possibly available on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division website. Of course, interestingly, with that said, this image is the earliest known photograph taken of an incumbent Lady. So it’s not based as a matter of fact, one prime example is a story about Ida McKinley scandalizing in Turkish pants outfits. I have done perhaps more extensive research on her whole life in preparation for what will eventually be published as the first fulllength biography of her life and nowhere is there any claim of accuracy -and obviously no documentation -on her wearing these pants.
Below are a few other outlandish stories involving fashions of the Ladies.
Perhaps it was done as a satire -I know that Mencken famously cracked that Millard Fillmore’s only accomplishment was installing the first White House bathtub, and for almost 80 years now, it still circulates as fact!
Look, there’re a few instances of Ladies’ wardrobes causing controversy, with regard to Ladies’ most outrageous outfits.a certain amount those I’ve seen from the 1890’s could fold within its own tube so it was more of a short stub of a pen rather than the elongated one we think of today, To be honest I am not sure if they existed in ‘18441845’. Needless to say, dozens of them are from her later years, as a widow, Through the years I have seen loads of photographs taken of Julia Tyler.
Whenever engraving or photograph, does she actually is wearing the pen, in no images of her, unfortunately -whether it be painting. One immediate thought -there were smaller, compact inkwell pens at one point. I seem to recall that it was a problem in the ‘re election’ year of her husband, that would be 1972. Amid the women’s magazines, I reckon it was Ladies Home Journal, often had a big cover story and profile of an incumbent Lady after she’d been there for a few years and often accompanied by a spread of them in new styles, and all that stuff This is where Pat Nixon first appeared wearing pants -the first Lady to do so. While looking at his bare head -Brother, where is thy broadbrim, at the White House, she recognized amongst the members of the public who attended her weekly open house reception as being a fellow -and former -member of her Quaker meetinghouse, she exclaimed to him.
Dolley Madison had been raised wearing the modest clothes and bonnets in somber colors which covered her face and body, intended not to draw deflect attention from her, as a former Quaker.
She began dressing in the most current styles of her era, including the lowcut flimsy dresses of the Napoleonic Era, right after she left the faith.
And now here is a question. He looked at her exposed upper chest and neck and retorted, Sister, why is thy kerchief?! So there’s a famous story which Dolley Madison’s nieces enjoyed telling about her. Former Lady Abigail Adams snidely remarked in a private letter that Mrs, when Dolley Madison famously wore her ‘low cut’ dresses that showed off her shoulders and the p of her bosom.
Madison looked like a nursing mother.
Left the faith, there was a famous anecdote about Dolley Madison encountering an old friend who. Had been a Quaker.
She looked at his head and saw he was no longer wearing the large blackish hat that Quaker men traditionally did. Brother, she asked, where is thy broadbrim? He looked at her gown without sleeves or neck and with plunging neckline and quipped back. Sister, where is thy kerchief? When Harriet Lane -the niece and White House hostess of the bachelor President James Buchanan popularized what was called the ‘lowneck’ lace bertha it set off something of a popular style -yet when her immediate successor Mary Lincoln wore shoulderless, some fortyfive years later armless dresses, she was criticized as showing off her bosom. Anyway, the 21 year old bride of President Cleveland, wore gowns without sleeves and showed off her shoulders, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union circulated a petition pleading for her to cover up her skin being that she was a bad influence on the morals of young American girls, when Frances Cleveland.
Eleanor Roosevelt owned a blue aquamarine ring given her by the government of Brazil which she turned over to the federal government since it was a state gift.
Although she was not as closely identified with it as was Barbara Bush with her threestrand fake pearls, Nancy Reagan wore a large and wide gold necklace and bracelet in the latter years of her tenure.
Mamie Eisenhower was famous for often wearing beautiful costume jewelry, and even pieces from discount stores like Penny’s and Woolworth’ As a widow, she was rarely photographed without her ‘colored glass’ flag pin. United Nations in 1988 wearing them. Actually, a lot was written on this pic and you may find some factual information that is reliable in the otherwise unreliable Kitty Kelly biography of the Lady. For instance, it covers the 1981 Inaugural, You might also consult the fully reliable MakeBelieve, by Laurence Leamer.
Kelly’s ne is acrimonious but she did punctuate her work with some substantive factual research and I believe information on the Inaugural clothes can be found here.
I believe Nancy Reagan’s Inaugural trosseau may have is the most expensive regarding the 1981 and after all 1985 US currency.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s response. Whenever asking the Lady to stop wearing these dresses being that it corrupted the morals of young women who copied her, it alarmed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and they actually drew up and had their various branches copy a petition, consequently sought to get all its members to sign it. Along those lines, Frances Cleveland wore many gowns that showed off her bare neck, shoulders and arms -.
She kept wearing them.
Not really Inaugural gowns, the point at which Ladies’ clothing began to cover political consequence is more the established patterns of their spending in economic times and the cost -Mary Lincoln in the course of the Civil War. Nancy Reagan receiving gifts of free couture clothes throughout the 1981 recession.
I’m afraid I’d have to say that none of the Inaugural Ball gowns of these Ladies really managed to convey the policies of their husbands or reflected economic downturns, or wars and akin crises -this event is the one night when they are almost entirely removed from those considerations and reality. We’re only talking about a pool of 23 women -only half of the tal number of Ladies, since not all Presidential Inaugurations were marked by a Inaugural Ball and not all Presidential wives attended those balls which were held. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. There was also the came of Frances Cleveland, in her young 20s who wore shoulderless gowns and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union petitioned her to please stop doing this as long as it was a bad moral influence on the young women of the nation.
That said, this request for information was a ‘multi part’ question.
You know anything about this, right?
While as pointed out by the Wash Post, pat Nixon had a beauty salon installed in the White House, Nancy Reagan renovated and expanded it. I have heard that Laura Bush had it removed but can’t verify. This is the case. I could share them with you – for now it does not looking promising, the technicians tell me, Therefore in case it does prove possible to retrieve them and these files have not been harmed. Remember, I am certain that you gonna be able to find public domain photographs of these 25 different Ladies in their Inaugural gowns by doing some deep online searches. Then the historical gowns mentioned in the first paragraph will likely appear as images on mannequins where an older Smithsonian exhibit had them displayed. Now let me tell you something. Obama at the White House website. Anyway, I had begun to gather lots of these images myself for a scheduled online exhibit at my personal website but unfortunately these, with thousands of others, were lost with a ‘hard drive’ crash of my laptop four weeks ago and it still remains uncertain when or if any of it can be saved.
Pictures of those from Bess Truman to Laura Bush may be available online at the websites of every of their husbands’ presidential libraries and museums, and for Mrs.
Since she was so refreshingly frugal compared to many other Ladies, it top-notch possible source on Jacqueline Kennedy might be the catalogues of her personal items that were sold at the famous Sotheby’s auction in Perhaps the John Kennedy Library in Boston has a copy. Suit which Mrs. It’s only in recent years that this was formally acknowledged and the family has legally responded by deeding it as a gift to that repository.
I believe there can be a condition, however, of some many decades before permission will grant any public display of the suit. Kennedy was wearing at the time of her husband’s assassination was sent by her mother in the months following that event to the National Archives in Washington. There were even booklets printed to give women specific instructions on how they could achieve the Jackie Look for themselves. She shaved the back of her neck clean and wore her longer back hair up, and stories ld of how college girls went insane for this and droves of them got their a la Frankie haircut. In the recent past certainly noone except had as massive a global influence on hair styling as did Jackie Kennedy. Actors have as much influence on trends, I’d say if not more, than do Ladies.
In earlier periods the influence was greater.
There was one other who had as much influence -Frances Cleveland who, at 21 years old, married the bachelor ’54 year’ President in the White House.
Now news is so broken into so many specialized interest categories that the general public might never see or hear anything about a Lady unless they wanted to, or searched it out. It’s a well the story moved fast -and women by the thousands apparently abandoned the bustle mostly there’s also a great story of how Frances Cleveland unwittingly expedited the demise of the bustle dress in either the late 1880’s or ‘mid 1890”s In any event, as the young bride of a President and hereupon as a young mother of three young daughters she was enormously popular and her clothing style was copied by many other women.
Cleveland didn’t like the bustle and would no longer wear it when the forthcoming social season began that fall. Two reporters in Washington in the course of the summer apparently were hard pressed for a live news story and completely made up the claim that Mrs. Mary Lincoln liked to wear ball gowns with very long trains but also without shoulders and President Lincoln once remarked that he thought she needed a little less tail and little more neck instead. She was also known for wearing elaborate head dresses of multiple roses, and in a letter to his wife, one Senator described Mrs. For example, lincoln critically, as wearing a flower pot on her head. In my opinion your perspective on the subject can give it a genuine relevancy and widen its interest, All I believe, Ladies was reduced to fashion mannequins thus making them of interest to a limited audience. Consequently, I think this can be a really new field of study within the stillnew study of Ladies. She also carried capes and wraps so she could cover up when she wanted to, in the Twenties, Florence Harding wore some evening gowns that bared her shoulders -despite her being 60 years old -keeping current with the vogue of the Jazz Age.
I do recall that early in her husband’s tenure as president. I’m pretty sure I haven’t done further research on it -though I seem to remember a story about it at the time in the Washington Post, reagan wore grey knickers with a dress, that generated lot of controversy. I am able to discuss facets of Inaugural history and the Ladies roles within it but not to discuss particular detail elements about their clothing styles -unless it affected political or popular culture. They did not, betty Ford never wore one since her husband became President upon the sudden resignation of Richard Nixon in Although Bess Truman and Lady Bird Johnson did wear one every after their husband’s election to their own terms and thus Inaugurations as President respectively. Then, with the Inauguration of Harry Truman that the tradition has remained a consistent one and so 11 different Ladies have had Inaugural gowns, And so it’s only since 1949. Found And therefore the real reason she wore an used gown to her husband’s 1977 Inaugural Ball actually had nothing to do with frugality and everything to do with sentiment, as for Rosalynn Carter. I only have the most limited scholarship on what they wore. There’re some individual presidential spouses I have conducted indepth research on of whom I’ve written ‘fulllength’ biographies and look, there’s some information I do know. My area of expertise on Ladies is focused largely on their political impact, speeches, media relations, policy interests and symbolism. Normally, she was sarcastically described as looking like a piece of a furniture set, I cannot recall the specific person who either stated or wrote about Julia Grant who wore the heavily beaded. Laced, tasseled and ribboned gowns of the Victorian era. Anyways, like everyone does, the other factor is that they get older, thus they adapt along the way -so in that respect they do change in a second term.
They tend to focus more intently on their work and less about how the public will respond to their appearance, well, only in that they seem to recognize that the time they have left to achieve what they seek for is slipping by.
While using the title of a popular movie from that era, piped up, Realgentlemen prefer greyish, in the case of Bess Truman, she got a lot more light grey and there was some snickering about that until President Truman.
Even if they look different in a second term, the history books. Did you know that the commemorative coins, the caricatures and cartoons of them have all already been cast from their initial image -so how their hair looks and is perceived by the public usually defaults to that initial strong image. Wouldn’t dare offer anyone advice on personal stuff like that, let alone someone noone knows what works best for them. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. As long as there will always be critics, more than anything, nearly any individual has to find what they feel most comfortable looking like and ignore critics. That said, because she was one of those who spent an inordinate quantity of energy on her clothes, I think your work on Edith Wilson especially merits study, however, particularly, and public appearances generally.
It was the first time that Europeans gave sustained and serious attention through their media on Americans, generally, and the President.
I believe she very much equated the role of Lady at the time of her tenure as did lots of the Washington elite and general population, apart from a vanity that seems apparent from not only her private letters but in her public memoir.
Certainly the effort she made in her public appearances in Europe with the royal family members of England, Italy and Belgium suggest a hyper consciousness about maintaining this status and keeping it on par with the Europeans. Yankee royalty. It’s a well I don’t believe it was purely a motivation of personal vanity but a patriotic feeling of truly embodying her own nation and asserting that the United States was on equal status with the powers of the old world. However, that very first trip by an incumbent President and his wife to Europe right after World War I was an important one regarding the policy as well as symbolism. In thinking about this subject I have to immediately enable you to know that I am not in any way versed on matters of clothing of the Ladies except in the political symbolism and the socioeconomic status they may represent regarding the currency and cost. Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Sarah Polk, Harriet Lane, Mary Lincoln, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes, Lucretia Garfield, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft.
Therefore this was because of one of a few potential factors.
One fact almost always misunderstood about Ladies and the outfits they wear to the Inaugural Ball is that this event has not been continuously held before From George Washington inauguration as the first President in 1789 until Franklin Roosevelt’s fourth and final one in 1945 only 14 Ladies attended Inaugural Balls.
Presidents, wives who chose not to attend the Inaugural Ball or wives whose husbands did not seek for a Ball to be held. Not sure I’d call any of them controversial. Like a feat of mechanical engineering, she had the famous Elizabeth Arden draw up rigorous detailed drawing on how it was all to be done. Fact, many people were in wonder about Mamie Eisenhower’s insistence on wearing bangs over her forehead -she came in with them and left with them, never changed them.
They eventually became popular with many women by the late 1950s who copied them and some novelty company even made fake paper bangs people could buy and stick on their foreheads as a gag gift, men and women wrote letters to major national hard news magazines criticizing. Thus being bewildered by the Mamie Bangs. Eleanor Roosevelt was famous for sometimes running from one task to another, from private life to a public event at the White House, and on occasion shocked people by showing up wearing her hair net or an almost white head scarf tied in her hair which looked like a rag of sorts. There were other more compelling impressions, as television and color photography and the more direct public involvement of Ladies in the events of their husbands’ Administration’s increased. From the time of Mary Lincoln until Mamie Eisenhower, about 90 years, the formal photograph taken which captured the Inaugural Ball appearance of a new Lady also served as the first of the official White House photograph portraits released of a Lady (as the years of the first and perhaps second term went on, the image my be updated to a more current one, yet the image which still dominated was still that very first one.