Amen. I hope the days of "dressing up" will return.
Moochelle intended to recreate the Kennedy aura----but she flopped redecorating the WH, and caused global horror gallivanting around Europe. She looked like she wore a chenille bedspread at the Inaugural Ball.
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Jackie Kennedy was the epitome of a First Lady. her redecorating the WH was her finest accomplishment. She was hailed as she traveled the world in exquisite clothing.
In Oleg Cassini's 1987 autobio---In My Own Fashion---Jackie's designer wrote that she wanted to wear the gown he designed for the Inaugural Ball, but that she had already ordered a custom-made gown from Bendel's and could not back out of the order. She did wear Cassini's magnificent gown-----to a ball held the night before.
Later she wanted the Cassini gown in the Smithsonian collection of First Lady inagural ball gowns--she loved it so much. But they insisted she submit the Bendel gown since it was the one she wore. In several Jackie bios she is shown in the Bendel gown
This is Jackie in the Bendel. She wore a cape over it for the ball.
CASSINI'S EXQUISITE INAGURAL BALL GOWN
JACKIE'S WEDDING DRESS (which she hated)
