I read the whole article, and the story of Anne Lowe’s career is fascinating. She was evidently quite a character, herself. Like many talented artistes, she did not have a lot of business sense. It is a pity she did not have a partner to take care of that side of it.
I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Boston. It seemed that every home had a portrait of JFK in their den. Usually over the grand piano that nobody every played except when children were forced to take lessons.
The level of Kennedy worship in that area is scary. Even today, if you run a Kennedy on the ballot - even if he's a drunken bum - he's likely to win.
Ted Kennedy for example. I rest my case.
Jackie:
Air head ding bat!
That woman was so stupid she married a Kennedy.
See how that turned out?
The Camelot factor, after all these years, still remains. This family is a disgrace. From Joe and his bootleg whiskey, to Teddy and the “inconvenient death” of Mary Joe, John and his sexual escapades while president-— this is all a joke on everyone...
I have never heard about Jackie O’s “colored dressmaker”.
I’m surprised a movie or play have not already been produced about it. It would be an interesting story from the tailor’s perspective at that point of our history.
If it ever does become a movie, just don’t let SNL comedian Leslie Jones get that lead role. She wouldn’t be a good fit, unless it was also meant to be a comedy.
As a kid I loved JFK. I remember he insisted that we pursue physical fitness and study science. There was never any doubt about his patriotism and hatred of communism.
Jackie inspired us with her style and gracious living.
As an adult I have come to re-appreciate his presidency.
Well I sorta liked this wedding story & photos.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/maid-of-honor-t-rex-costume-sister-wedding
“The groom’s father — the famously domineering Joseph Kennedy — was involved in every detail of wedding planning, including the dress,(snip)”
Joe had planned for his oldest son, Joe Jr, to be President. That unraveled when Joe Jr was killed in World War 2. Jack was next in line and Joe was determined that Jack would be President.
Jackie was a young woman who was from an acceptable family, had gone to acceptable schools and had the necessary pedigree to be acceptable to Joe.
Joe Kennedy planned everything from Jack and Jackies courtship to the wedding and may have even required proof that the marriage had been consummated. He was that much of power freak.
Mary Todd Lincoln had a black dressmaker too...former slave, Elizabeth Keckley.
Here’s a funny story. My dad was a writer and he did articles on people he did a story on the. Senator Jack Kennedy for the Saturday evening post. He relayed to me that the most memorable thing about that story to him was when he went to their apartment in New York Jackie Kennedy answered the door in a short bathrobe. All he remembers is that she was incredibly bowlegged from the horse riding I guess.
Jackie who?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/jfk-jackie-kennedy-camelot-myth
“The name “Camelot” is such an accepted sobriquet for the Kennedy Administration that many don’t recognize it as a creation of Jackie Kennedy’s during a Life magazine interview following JFK’s assassination. It certainly evokes an image of a romantic fairy-tale … but, when considered in light of its origin, it’s nowhere near as flattering a nickname as it was intended to be.
“What prompted Jackie’s analogy was the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot”, which presents the kingdom ruled by King Arthur as a place built on lofty principles, more idyllic than Eden. The plot, however, focuses on the forces out to destroy Camelot – the adulterous romance between Lancelot and Arthur’s queen, Guenevere, and the machinations of Arthur’s bitter illegitimate son, Mordred. Arthur, though witty and idealistic, is not very adept at thinking for himself or dealing with the thornier aspects of government...
>>The 1953 wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy was so perfect it is still being talked about more than 65 years later. As recently as 2017, gossip website The List was still calling it “the most beautiful wedding ever.” It was a fairy tale worthy of the legendary couple who would preside over Camelot.
A gossip website in 2017 wrote about a wedding from 65 years ago.
There is a website or forum on every single bit of minutiae about everything these days.
Johnson and Smith “x-ray specs” catalogs.
The secret coded numbers in the dead wax of 45s recorded by Cosimo Matassa.
Telling me a gossip website wrote about a celebrity’s early days from over half a century ago is no sign of lasting “greatness” or “perfection”.
A perfect wedding. (JFK probably nailed a couple of other “broads” at the reception.)
It wasn’t all smooth sailing. Her father, John (Black Jack) Bouvier was too drunk to escort Jackie down the aisle.
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/jack-jackie-kennedy-get-married-newport-ri/
Worst of all, Jackie wanted her father, John Vernou ‘Black Jack’ Bouvier, to give her away. Her mother, Janet Auchincloss, had a different plan. She excluded Bouvier, her ex-husband, from the pre-wedding parties and told him he wasn’t welcome at the reception. Then she secretly assigned Michael Canfield, her son-in-law, to make sure Bouvier got so drunk before the wedding he couldn’t attend.
I didden read this bllcrap. The Ole Afro American (or cuban, Haitian, or pr, or caribe or whatever) could have quit, and left a whitesa to finish up. Sick of hearing about this sort of racial crap.
I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania. I was a 16 year old high school sophomore when JFK was killed. No one I knew had any JFK pictures hanging in their homes. The morning after the assassination, our home phone started to ring early and it seemed that my father was on various calls all day. Most of the callers were his Italian American friends from the country club and from what I could hear, the theme of every call was celebration with much laughter included. And no one seemed surprised at all.
I’m guessing this is to show that Jackie Kennedy was just another old white racist.