Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

[Mercedes]

following 3 pictures and quote from http://www.swinginchicks.com

HER '60s LOOK: Some people considered her one of America's gorgeous women in her prime; others don't put her on quite that high a level but admit that she made a lot out of what she had -- wide-set eyes, a big smile, and a glamorous, though not classically beautiful, appearance. Photographers and magazine editors loved her, for her youthful, pleasing looks were quite a contrast to elderly aspects of previous First Ladies such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, and Mamie Eisenhower. Jackie was on countless magazine covers, including such gossipy movie tabloids as Photoplay, which usually covered sizzling movie stars. She made the following Life covers:

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in '53, an article about the JFK/Jackie courtship, the cover showing them boating; an August 24, 1959 cover showed her in pink and with pearls; on May 26, 1961, wearing bright red and her trademark pillbox hat; in September of that same year, showing off her restoration work at the White House; on December 6, 1963, while showing JFK's funeral; an April 26, 1963 issue about her childhood; a cover shot of her in Cambodia on November 17, 1967; on November 1, 1968, the coverlines read "Jackie's Wedding" and the article showed her wedding to Aristotle Onassis; in '72, a cover story about her battles with an invasive photographer; in July '89, a 60th birthday tribute; in August '99, this time with her daughter.

Tall and lean, Jackie had impeccable, aristocratic, cultivated style and brought a new youthful beauty to the White House. For the inauguration in '61, she hired designer Oleg Cassini to create her wardrobe, telling him she wanted to dress as if "Jack were President of France." Her glamorous clothes dazzled the nation and inspired a whole look, making her a role model for American women. Women even copied her hat style when Jackie accidentally dented a pillbox hat -- similar hats with similar dents suddenly became fashionable. According to the book Wild Women in the White House, a maid once pulled some sexy black lingerie from JFK's bed and handed them to Jackie, thinking the lingerie was hers. Jackie handed them to Jack with the quip, "Not my size." The same book also claims that Jackie told a reporter that she wore "sable underwear."​

pictures bellow from http://pro.corbis.com
Christina Onassis, Caroline Kennedy and
Jacqueline Onassis

 

[Mercedes]

http://www.harpersbazaar.com
excerpt from article "Jackie, Audrey and Grace Would All Be 75 This Year"

"And I've been so influenced by Jackie's style as well. When you think of her, you can always conjure a specific picture in your mind of what she's wearing," says Jennifer, referring to the unadorned cloth coats, low-heeled pumps, shift dresses and spare elegant lines of the suits and gowns that Jackie brought to mainstream America. A decade after her death, her influence is still showing up on the runways: Oscar de la Renta reinvented her full-skirted dresses with the bow-cinched waist; Michael Kors at Celine showed her classic oversize sunglasses paired with a head scarf; and her signature color palette of icy pink , yellow blue and green was used in the spring collections of Valentino and Versace.

More than any other first lady, Jackie possessed the charisma and photogenic qualities of a movie star, marking a departure from matronly foerunners like Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower. How fitting for the young woman whose Miss Porter's School yearbook entry declared that her life ambition was "not to be a housewife." When Jackie moved into the White House in 1961, she looked like anything but a housewife, wearing significant jewelry and fur coats and changing her hairdo according to whim and occasion-French twists, bouffant bobs, chignons, even wigs.

Jackie's atypical good looks stood in stark contrast to the era's pervasive ideas of beauty: Her yeyes were set a little too far apart, her teeth crooked, her face too wide, her feet size 10; everything about her was larger than life and slightly out of proportion. Crucial to Jackie's style legacy was her ability to edit and cultivate her attributes-assets and flaws alike. She hid her imperfect teeth with a demure smile and she chose her clothing (favoring Givenchy, she had American-made incarnations of his designs created by Oleg Cassini during her tenure as first lady) in order to maximize what she thought was a less-than-ideal body. She was ultimately so successful in her efforts that the 1962 Miss America publicly lamented , "If only I looked like Jackie." But Jackie wasn't the only role model influencing women of her day, and the first lady herself cited Audrey Hepburn as a major inspiration.

all pictures from http://pro.corbis.com

Lee, Anthony and Jackie

 

[PinkSunrise]

I love her..one of the greatest celebs of all times

 

[breathe0xygen]

According to the book Wild Women in the White House, a maid once pulled some sexy black lingerie from JFK's bed and handed them to Jackie, thinking the lingerie was hers. Jackie handed them to Jack with the quip, "Not my size." The same book also claims that Jackie told a reporter that she wore "sable underwear."

what a mature response... I'm amazed. I'm also amazed how she looks so elegant and sophisticated in every picture.

 

[adorefaith]

 

[esiders]

I'm a Jackie fan too. To me she wasn't a great looker, but a woman who knew how to accent her good features and always looked effortlessly chic. Her sister Lee was known as the beauty in the family...
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[Mercedes]

adorefaith, I love the second and fifth picture you posted!

I'm a Jackie fan too. To me she wasn't a great looker, but a woman who knew how to accent her good features and always looked effortlessly chic.

I completely agree. She looks so polished in every photo (even when she was barefoot ). Although she wasn't a classic beauty, when she was younger I think she was pretty in an unusual way.

 

[Ella]

I made a collage...(pics from the Met Costume Institute site)

This first one reminds me of those Spring 2004 Oscar de la Renta dresses.

I love all the pictures posted...

 

[justlooking]

someone earlier described her chin as "french." what do you mean by a "french chin"... like a Roman nose?

 

[urd]

^are those the same de la renta dresses as the pink one in sex and the city?

 

[TheSoCalledPrep]

this is a great book of Jackie.. i have it, it's fun

http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpidEQ1171657423AMPdomain_idEQ1856AMPmeta_idEQ1

 

[cocomonkey4]

i adore her. she had this regal air about her, very classy. impeccable posture too.
she had one of those striking face/look that you can't confuse with anyone else,. it's been imitated but never matched.

 

[cheiby11]

My favourite pics of her

(getty)

 

[cheiby11]

from style.com

she is so lovely in the Aspen pic

 

[cheiby11]

so romantic with John ...

(getty)

 

[cheiby11]

happy family in Hyannis Port Weekend in 1963

John, John Jr., Jackie, Caroline.
Dogs Clipper standing, Charlie with Caroline, Wolf reclining, Shannon with John Jr., two of Pushinkas puppies

(getty)

 

[cheiby11]

famous cover of Life magazine (1953)

(getty)

 

[cheiby11]

White House Dinner in honor of President of Tunisia. White House, Grand Staircase in 1961

(google)

 

[cheiby11]

like in fairy tale

1961 on the morning of John's snowy Inauguration Day ceremony

(google)

 

[cheiby11]

little lady


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