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To: MadIvan
This article is a little superficial from a historical point of view. (And just a touch inaccurate. "Hillary Clinton" and fashion in the same city block, let alone sentence, is right out.)

Grace Coolidge was not a "sweater girl", she was very much an elegant dresser in the haute couture mode, and I can't imagine her wearing sportswear anywhere but on the tennis court (or Worth - I mean, WORTH, having anything to do with her if she did.)

Frances Folsom Cleveland was indeed a beautiful woman.

There were other great beauties among the First Ladies - Julia Gardiner Tyler, the "Rose of Long Island", Harriet Lane, who acted as hostess for her uncle James Buchanan, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Ellen Axson Wilson (who's a distant cousin) But the all time prize for captivating First Lady is still held by Dolley Madison.


14 posted on 08/04/2004 4:51:04 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Don't forget Abigail Adams!


17 posted on 08/04/2004 6:48:20 AM PDT by bushfamfan
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To: AnAmericanMother


19 posted on 08/04/2004 7:17:45 AM PDT by ppaul
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