The secrets of Jackie’s iconic pink Chanel suit | New York Post The secrets of Jackie’s iconic pink Chanel suit Comment(required) November 15, 2013 | 9:11pm President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leave St. Stephen's Church in DC following morning mass on November 12, 1961. Bettmann/CORBIS Jacqueline Kennedy (center) with the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur at the White House on October 24, 1962. Courtesy of Kennedy Library Archives/Newsmakers Jacqueline Kennedy waves at the camera while visiting with her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill (right) in London on March 27, 1962. Bettmann/CORBIS Architect John Carl Warnecke explains a model of Lafayette Square to Jacqueline Kennedy on September 26, 1962. Bettmann/Corbis President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline arrive at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. EPA Kennedy and Jacqueline greet the crowd. Art Rickerby/Getty Images Kennedy and Jacqueline greet the crowd.

Art Rickerby/Getty Images Kennedy and Jacqueline make their way through the airport at Love Field. Art Rickerby/Getty Images JFK and first lady Jacqueline leave Love Field. AP VP Lyndon B. Johnson (from left), Jacqueline Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy have breakfast in Fort Worth, Texas on November 22, 1963. CORBIS Women model suits designed by Chanel, which many believe inspired Jackie Kennedy's iconic pink suit. Paul Schutzer/Getty Images President John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline leave the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast. EPA Jacqueline Kennedy rides alongside her husband in Dallas, Texas before he was assassinated. Bettmann/CORBIS Jacqueline Kennedy wears her bloodstained suit as she stands with brother-in-law Robert Kennedy as the body of President John F. Kennedy is placed in an ambulance. AP Jacqueline Kennedy bears witness as Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. Keystone/Getty Images Coach Mike Woodson and Iman Shumpert barked at each other...

15 Jackie Kennedy's iconic pink suit November 15, 2013 Inside Zapruder family's complicated history with JFK film Talking about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, who had been riding ahead of the first couple in the fateful 1963 motorcade, recalled her most heart-rending memory of that day. The recollection is seared into the minds of generations of Americans who were not in Dallas five decades ago on Nov. 22, but, after watching the vivid color film footage of the shooting, felt as if they had been among the horrified bystanders in Dealey Plaza. “I [looked] over my shoulder and saw, in the president’s car, a bundle of pink, just like a drift of blossoms, lying on the back seat,” Lady Bird Johnson said at the time. President John F. Kennedy and Mrs.

Kennedy disembark from Air Force One at Love Field, Dallas.EPA/Cecil Stoughton That “drift of blossoms” was, of course, the diminutive figure of Jacqueline Kennedy — Jack’s 34-year-old wife, crouching for cover in the strawberry-colored Chanel suit, which became an emblem of the tragedy. “The outfit is a terrible talisman of American history and heartbreak,” says New York-based fashion expert Pamela Keogh, who writes about the iconic wool bouclé two-piece in her book “Jackie Style.” “But despite symbolizing a very sorrowful moment in our nation’s past, it also shows Jackie’s courage.” The grief-stricken First Lady famously insisted on wearing the blood-spattered suit during the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One before the flight back to Washington, DC. “Let them see what they have done,” she repeatedly said when asked if she wanted to change. Writing in her diary about the hastily arranged inauguration ceremony, Lady Bird Johnson noted: “Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood.

Women model suits designed by Chanel, which many believe inspired Jackie Kennedy’s iconic pink suit.Paul Schutzer//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images “Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights — that immaculate woman exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.” Photographs of Jackie being met at Andrews Air Force Base by her brother-in-law, Bobby, show the solidified dark brown marks. It wasn’t until the following morning that the grieving widow finally agreed to take off the outfit, after the official autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. She then comforted her two children, Caroline and John, at the time aged just five and two. Today, Jackie’s pink suit, with its distinctive navy blue collar, is kept inside an acid-free box in a numbered storeroom within the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland. It has never been dry-cleaned and, according to the few staffers who have seen the suit, looks brand-new except for the telltale blood stains. It will remain hidden from the American public until at least 2103 because Caroline, her sole surviving heir, signed a deed in 2003 stipulating that it remain hidden for 100 years.

The terms will likely be renegotiated by Kennedy’s descendants in the next century. “The dress won’t see the light of day in my lifetime,” says Keogh. “And for that, I’m grateful. “To my mind, there would be something very ghoulish about it being put on display.” There is no denying the fascination for the suit, which has been copied dozens of times on-screen. It has been worn by a succession of actresses playing the chic First Lady in movies and TV series. Most recently, Minka Kelly wore a version in this summer’s civil-rights epic “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” while Ginnifer Goodwin re-created the look in the National Geographic Channel film “Killing Kennedy” airing this month. Jacqueline Kennedy waves at the camera while visiting with her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill (right) in London on March 27, 1962.Bettman/Corbis Most experts concur that the suit Jackie owned in 1963 was itself a copy of a Chanel. They believe it was manufactured in the Big Apple’s Garment District by the upscale fashion label Chez Ninon.

“In the old days, Chanel let certain US-based designers buy a suit and literally copy it, line-for-line,” explains Keogh. “They would send them the exact material and buttons from France.” So why would a wealthy blue blood, one of the most famous women in the world, wear a knockoff? The answer lies with Jackie’s father-in-law, Joe Kennedy, who bankrolled her wardrobe and was conscious that fancy Paris design houses didn’t square with the First Couple’s all-American image. “It was part of this movement to have the Kennedys seen as not too silver spoon and ivory tower,” says Scott Stoddart, dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. “Chez Ninon maintained a close relationship with Chanel, which saw the arrangement as a way to repay Mrs. Kennedy’s long-term patronage.” It was routine for Jackie and her sister, Lee Radziwill, to cherry-pick pieces by Givenchy, Chanel and Pierre Cardin, and have them copied “relatively on the cheap” by their favorite designers such as Oleg Cassini.

“Receipts don’t exist for the Chanel [facsimile] but there are other receipts from around the same time for other items made up in New York from French designs,” adds Stoddart. Fashion historian Steven Brawley, who blogs at pinkpillbox.com , reveals that the original suit debuted in the September 1961 issue of Life magazine, in an article about the fall Chanel collection. Architect John Carl Warnecke explains a model of Lafayette Square to Jacqueline Kennedy on September 26, 1962.Bettman/Corbis Headlined “In Suits Too, a Trim and Slim Fit,” the editorial showed a brunette model, a Jackie look-alike with bouffant hair, wearing the double-breasted jacket and skirt and crossing a New York City street. Was it a coincidence that the same issue of Life featured Mrs. Kennedy on the cover, talking about her plans to renovate The White House? “I often wonder if she was reading her interview, then flipped to the fashion pages, saw the suit and thought, ‘I simply must have that!’ ” says Brawley. The day of the assassination was not the first time Jackie appeared in the outfit.

Photos show her wearing it at least six times prior to her husband’s murder, ranging from a mass at Camp David in November 1961 to a meeting at Washington, DC’s Lafayette Square in September 1962. She wore it during her March 1962 trip to London when she lunched with Queen Elizabeth II. “The suit was supposedly a favorite of the president’s because he liked the bright pink color,” says Stoddart. “He asked her to wear it in Dallas that morning because it would look good photogenically — something the crowd would spot.” Jacqueline Kennedy (center) with the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur at the White House on October 24, 1962.Kennedy Library Archives JFK, always image-conscious, approved his wife’s outfits for the important Texas trip, which was meant to mark the start of his 1964 re-election campaign. In an interview with biographer William Manchester, Jackie recalled that her husband told her, “There are going to be all these rich, Republican women at that lunch . . . wearing mink coats and diamond bracelets. And you’ve got to look as marvelous as any of them.

Be simple — show these Texans what good taste really is.” Not that she needed the advice. “There were no such thing as stylists in those days, but Jackie had a very clear sense she was going to be surrounded by men in grey or navy blue suits,” explains Keogh. “She knew she needed that block of color to stand out. Nobody was going to have a rare and beautiful pink Chanel suit like her’s.” She paired the suit with the equally iconic matching pillbox hat made by Halston (who did millinery work for Bergdorf’s), but left the coordinating coat, in a darker shade of pink, aboard the plane because the weather that morning in Fort Worth was unexpectedly mild. To this day, nobody knows what became of Jackie’s hat after the shooting. There are several theories about its whereabouts, the most common being that Mary Gallagher, Jackie’s former personal secretary, now in her 90s, was handed the hat by Secret Service staff and kept it in her collection. Although Gallagher has sold many of the items that she received from her famous employer, she refuses to comment on its fate. Another possibility is that it somehow just got thrown away by the crew who cleaned the president’s limousine of blood.

After all, the concept of CSI didn’t exist back then. A missing piece of history, the pillbox hat remains absent from that box in the windowless room of the National Archives, where perhaps the saddest symbol of the JFK tragedy lies in controlled temperatures of between 65 and 68 degrees, in 40 percent humidity, shielded from light and prying eyes. Share this: The secrets behind Jackie's iconic Chanel suit Email a friend TALKING about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, who had been riding ahead of the first couple in the fateful 1963 motorcade, recalled her most heart-rending memory of that day. The recollection is seared into the minds of generations of Americans who were not in Dallas five decades ago on November 22, but, after watching the vivid color film footage of the shooting, felt as if they had been among the horrified bystanders in Dealey Plaza. “I [looked] over my shoulder and saw, in the president’s car, a bundle of pink, just like a drift of blossoms, lying on the back seat,” Lady Bird Johnson said at the time.

That “drift of blossoms” was, of course, the diminutive figure of Jacqueline Kennedy — Jack’s 34-year-old wife, crouching for cover in the strawberry-colored Chanel suit, which became an emblem of the tragedy. “The outfit is a terrible talisman of American history and heartbreak,” says New York-based fashion expert Pamela Keogh, who writes about the iconic wool bouclé two-piece in her book “Jackie Style.” “But despite symbolizing a very sorrowful moment in our nation’s past, it also shows Jackie’s courage.” The grief-stricken First Lady famously insisted on wearing the blood-spattered suit during the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One before the flight back to Washington, DC. “Let them see what they have done,” she repeatedly said when asked if she wanted to change. Writing in her diary about the hastily arranged inauguration ceremony, Lady Bird Johnson noted: “Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. “Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights — that immaculate woman exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.” Photographs of Jackie being met at Andrews Air Force Base by her brother-in-law, Bobby, show the solidified dark brown marks.

It wasn’t until the following morning that the grieving widow finally agreed to take off the outfit, after the official autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. She then comforted her two children, Caroline and John, at the time aged just five and two. Today, Jackie’s pink suit, with its distinctive navy blue collar, is kept inside an acid-free box in a numbered storeroom within the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland. It has never been dry-cleaned and, according to the few staffers who have seen the suit, looks brand-new except for the telltale blood stains. It will remain hidden from the American public until at least 2103 because Caroline, her sole surviving heir, signed a deed in 2003 stipulating that it remain hidden for 100 years. The terms will likely be renegotiated by Kennedy’s descendants in the next century. News_Image_File: Jackie Kennedy “The dress won’t see the light of day in my lifetime,” says Keogh. “And for that, I’m grateful. “To my mind, there would be something very ghoulish about it being put on display.” There is no denying the fascination for the suit, which has been copied dozens of times on-screen.

It has been worn by a succession of actresses playing the chic First Lady in movies and TV series. Most recently, Minka Kelly wore a version in this summer’s civil-rights epic “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” while Ginnifer Goodwin re-created the look in the National Geographic Channel film “Killing Kennedy” airing this month. Most experts concur that the suit Jackie owned in 1963 was itself a copy of a Chanel. They believe it was manufactured in the Big Apple’s Garment District by the upscale fashion label Chez Ninon. “In the old days, Chanel let certain US-based designers buy a suit and literally copy it, line-for-line,” explains Keogh. “They would send them the exact material and buttons from France.” So why would a wealthy blue blood, one of the most famous women in the world, wear a knockoff? The answer lies with Jackie’s father-in-law, Joe Kennedy, who bankrolled her wardrobe and was conscious that fancy Paris design houses didn’t square with the First Couple’s all-American image.

“It was part of this movement to have the Kennedys seen as not too silver spoon and ivory tower,” says Scott Stoddart, dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. “Chez Ninon maintained a close relationship with Chanel, which saw the arrangement as a way to repay Mrs. Kennedy’s long-term patronage.” It was routine for Jackie and her sister, Lee Radziwill, to cherry-pick pieces by Givenchy, Chanel and Pierre Cardin, and have them copied “relatively on the cheap” by their favorite designers such as Oleg Cassini. “Receipts don’t exist for the Chanel [facsimile] but there are other receipts from around the same time for other items made up in New York from French designs,” adds Stoddart. Fashion historian Steven Brawley, who blogs at pinkpillbox.com, reveals that the original suit debuted in the September 1961 issue of Life magazine, in an article about the fall Chanel collection.

Headlined “In Suits Too, a Trim and Slim Fit,” the editorial showed a brunette model, a Jackie look-alike with bouffant hair, wearing the double-breasted jacket and skirt and crossing a New York City street. Was it a coincidence that the same issue of Life featured Mrs. Kennedy on the cover, talking about her plans to renovate The White House? “I often wonder if she was reading her interview, then flipped to the fashion pages, saw the suit and thought, ‘I simply must have that!’ ” says Brawley. The day of the assassination was not the first time Jackie appeared in the outfit. Photos show her wearing it at least six times prior to her husband’s murder, ranging from a mass at Camp David in November 1961 to a meeting at Washington, DC’s Lafayette Square in September 1962. She wore it during her March 1962 trip to London when she lunched with Queen Elizabeth II. “The suit was supposedly a favorite of the president’s because he liked the bright pink color,” says Stoddart.

“He asked her to wear it in Dallas that morning because it would look good photogenically — something the crowd would spot.” JFK, always image-conscious, approved his wife’s outfits for the important Texas trip, which was meant to mark the start of his 1964 re-election campaign. In an interview with biographer William Manchester, Jackie recalled that her husband told her, “There are going to be all these rich, Republican women at that lunch . . . wearing mink coats and diamond bracelets. And you’ve got to look as marvelous as any of them. Be simple — show these Texans what good taste really is.” Not that she needed the advice. “There were no such thing as stylists in those days, but Jackie had a very clear sense she was going to be surrounded by men in grey or navy blue suits,” explains Keogh. “She knew she needed that block of color to stand out.

Nobody was going to have a rare and beautiful pink Chanel suit like her’s.” She paired the suit with the equally iconic matching pillbox hat made by Halston (who did millinery work for Bergdorf’s), but left the coordinating coat, in a darker shade of pink, aboard the plane because the weather that morning in Fort Worth was unexpectedly mild. To this day, nobody knows what became of Jackie’s hat after the shooting. There are several theories about its whereabouts, the most common being that Mary Gallagher, Jackie’s former personal secretary, now in her 90s, was handed the hat by Secret Service staff and kept it in her collection. Although Gallagher has sold many of the items that she received from her famous employer, she refuses to comment on its fate. Another possibility is that it somehow just got thrown away by the crew who cleaned the president’s limousine of blood. After all, the concept of CSI didn’t exist back then.

A missing piece of history, the pillbox hat remains absent from that box in the windowless room of the National Archives, where perhaps the saddest symbol of the JFK tragedy lies in controlled temperatures of between 65 and 68 degrees, in 40 percent humidity, shielded from light and prying eyes. Jacqueline Kennedy's Pink Chanel Suit: Then & Now Jacqueline Kennedy's Pink Chanel Suit: Then & Now Jackie's iconic Dallas suit stored until 2103; pillbox hat still missing By Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston/Public Domain JFK's Assassination One of the most haunting images from November 22, 1963, is Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink suit smeared with President Kennedy’s blood in Dallas. The fateful day began with the First Lady beaming radiantly next to her husband while wearing the Chanel suit she’d worn several times. The day ended with the newly widowed 34-year-old escorting her husband’s body to the White House. Her pink suit and stockings still caked with her husband’s blood so the world could see. In remembrance of the 51st anniversary of John F.

Kennedy’s assassination , here’s a detailed look at Jackie’s iconic pink suit — a frock that none of us will ever see in the flesh. continue reading below our video 7 Shopping Tips for Budget Savvy Shoppers Courtesy of Kennedy Library Archives/Newsmakers/Getty Images The Pink Chanel Suit While most people consider Jackie’s pink suit an actual Chanel suit, others consider it a high-end reproduction or knock-off. The jacket and skirt design appeared in Chanel’s 1961 autumn/winter collection; however, Jackie’s pink suit was constructed by Chez Ninon on Park Avenue in New York City. Chanel reportedly provided fabric, trim and gold buttons for the “line-for-line” reproduction, which many say makes it an authentic Chanel suit. Jackie loved wearing French designs, but felt compelled to wear American-made garments; thus, this American-made Chanel suit satisfied her wishes. Its estimated cost was $800 to $1,000. The bubble gum-colored suit is classic Chanel, from its boxy, three-quarter-length sleeve jacket to its fitted skirt. Although it appears solid pink, the wool bouclé fabric features threads in lighter and darker shades of pink and red.

Jackie reportedly described the suit as “raspberry-colored.” The double-breasted jacket features a wide, notched lapel collar and trim (on the cuffs and pockets) in navy blue. Underneath, Jackie wore a sleeveless navy blue blouse. The hemline of the slim skirt fell just below Jackie’s knees. Before November 22, 1963, Jackie had worn this pink suit at least six times in public including to morning mass in 1961, in London with her sister Lee Radziwill in 1962 and at the White House with Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur on October 24, 1962 (seen here). On a few occasions, Jackie wore her signature triple-strand of pearls with the suit (which she did not wear in Dallas). The First Lady topped off the pink dress with a matching pink pillbox hat with navy blue trim made by Roy Halston Frowick (Halston). Halston, who was the head milliner at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City when he made Jackie’s signature pillbox hats, also made the pillbox hat she wore on President Kennedy’s inauguration day.

Pillbox hats were meant to sit on top of the head, but the First Lady always pinned them tilted on the back of her head so that her face was visible. By Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston/Public Domain November 22, 1963 Before Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy departed for their three-day whirlwind trip to Texas, the President told Jackie (according to William Manchester’s 1967 book “The Death of a President”), “There are going to be all these rich, Republican women at that lunch… wearing mink coats and diamond bracelets. And you’ve got to look as marvelous as any of them. Be simple—show these Texans what good taste really is.” The pink Chanel suit, one of Jackie's favorites, was selected for the Texas trip by the First Lady and her personal assistant Providencia (Provi) Paredes. On the fateful morning, President Kennedy and the First Lady woke up in their room at Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas. President Kennedy spoke at a Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast, an event Jackie didn’t plan to attend until the President had a Secret Service agent fetch her.

The large crowd wanted to see Jackie. “Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer,” said President Kennedy. The audience laughed. “But of course she looks better than we do when she does it.” When Jackie finally arrived, beaming in her feminine pink ensemble, the crowd applauded. The pink Chanel suit was accented with Jackie’s pink lipstick, white gloves, low-heeled navy blue pumps and a navy blue handbag with gold chain handles and closure. The top button of her jacket was unbuttoned. Jackie's pillbox hat was pinned on the crown of her signature bouffant hairdo. “Two years ago I said that, I introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was the man who had accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris,” said President Kennedy. “I’m getting somewhat that same sensation as I travel around Texas. Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear.” By Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston/Public Domain Dallas, Texas The misty morning had cleared to reveal beautiful, blue skies. After the breakfast and following motorcade through Fort Worth, the Kennedys took a 13-minute flight on Air Force One to Dallas Love Field.

Upon landing, Jackie received a bouquet of red roses — a stark color against her pink suit that foreshadowed things to come. Clear skies meant that the President and First Lady, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie, would ride through Dallas in the Presidential limousine, a convertible Lincoln Continental, uncovered and without a bubble top. Jackie’s pink suit was a pretty pop of color in the midnight blue limousine. As the motorcade headed toward the Dallas Trade Mart, the site of President Kennedy’s next speech, Jackie put on her black sunglasses. President Kennedy requested she remove them — it was a beautiful day and the crowd wanted to see her. Jackie removed them. Although some describe that day as hot, the temperature only reached 69 that day according to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). During the motorcade, the temperature was most likely around 66 or 67 degrees; therefore, Jackie would have been comfortable in her wool suit. At 12:30 p.m., the motorcade turned the corner onto Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository. Shots fired.

The final shot stuck President Kennedy’s head. Jackie scrambled onto the trunk of the limousine — some say she was fleeing, others say she was retrieving part of her husband’s head. Secret Service Agent Clint Hill jumped on the back of the car and urged Jackie to get down. The First Lady returned to her seat and her husband’s body slumped onto her lap. It wasn’t until Life Magazine published color frames of Abraham Zapruder’s historic 8-millimeter film in October 1964 that most of the public learned that Jackie’s dress was pink. They’d only seen her dress in black-and-white photos and black-and-white TV broadcasts. By Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston/Public Domain The Bloodied Suit After President Kennedy died at Parkland Hospital, Jackie was asked by aides if she would like a clean change of clothes. She insisted on wearing her pink suit covered in her husband’s blood. “Let them see what they’ve done,” she said. Later in her diary, Lady Bird Johnson wrote: "I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy's dress was stained with blood.

One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood — her husband's blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights — that immaculate woman exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood." At the hospital, Jackie removed her pillbox hat. "While standing there I was handed Jackie's pillbox hat and couldn't help noticing the strands of her hair beneath the hat pin. I could almost visualize her yanking it from her head," wrote Jackie’s personal secretary Mary Barelli Gallagher (who accompanied Jackie to Dallas) in her 1969 memoir “My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy.” It wasn’t until the morning of November 23, after Jackie accompanied her husband’s body back to the White House, that she removed her bloody garments. The suit and accessories were soon stored at the Georgetown home of Jackie’s mother Janet Auchincloss. By Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston/Public Domain Where is the Pink Suit? At the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland, rests Jackie’s pink suit, stockings, navy blouse, navy pumps and handbag.

The garments, which have never been cleaned, lie unfolded in an acid-free box in a dark, climate-controlled vault in an undisclosed location. The Los Angeles Times reported that the vault’s temperature is always 65 to 68 degrees, humidity is 40 percent and the air is changed six times per hour. Except for the blood, the suit reportedly looks brand new. The suit and accessories arrived in a box at the National Archives sometime before July 1964 with a note from Jacqueline’s mother Janet Auchincloss on her personal stationery that simply said, “Jackie’s suit and bag worn November 22, 1963,” according to The New York Times . Meanwhile, Jackie’s pillbox hat and bloodied gloves are missing. Mary Barelli Gallagher, Jackie’s personal secretary, is said to possibly have the pillbox hat; however, she has not confirmed it. After Jacqueline died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on May 19, 1994, at age 64, the pink suit legally belonged to her daughter Caroline Kennedy.

In 2003, Caroline deeded the suit to the National Archives with instructions that it cannot be seen until 2103, according to The New York Times. Special access to the suit is never granted. It’s a suit that none of us will ever see. Only in photographs. Sources 1000+ images about Hats. Jackie Kennedy on Pinterest | Jackie kennedy, Jfk and First ladies Forward John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known as "Jack" or by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963 35th President of the United And His Wife . First Lady of the United States .Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy .....July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ en.wikipedia.org/... en.wikipedia.org/...

See More Jackie Kennedy's Pink Suit: What You Didn't Know About The Iconic Outfit (PHOTOS) Jackie Kennedy's Pink Suit: What You Didn't Know About The Iconic Outfit (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post Canada reddit ADVERTISEMENT November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy and one image (besides the tragic killing of the former president) still stands out in our minds: Jackie Kennedy's pink suit . Most of us are familiar with the late former First Lady's iconic outfit (including her often duplicated pillbox hat ) which she wore at the swearing in of former president Lyndon B. Johnson even though it was covered with JFK's blood. Former First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson detailed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' strength and composure during the swearing-in and noted her elegant suit: "Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed ... I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy's dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband's blood.

Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood." So, in honour of the late president's passing and Jackie's incredible courage, we take a look at seven facts you may have not known about her elegant pink suit. 1. The Chanel Myth Legend says that the suit was created by iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel but this is false. In fact, it was a reproduction by New York fashion salon, Chez Ninon , who made it for her in 1961. 2. Whatever Happened To The Suit? According to the Los Angeles Times , the suit sits in the National Archives, has never been cleaned and is banned from public display under Kennedy family instructions until at least 2103. 3. And The Hat? The L.A. Times reports that the iconic pillbox hat , which was removed at Parkland Hospital while Jackie was waiting for doctors to confirm her husband's death, is lost. It was last known to be in the possession of her personal secretary, Mary Gallagher. 4. True Colours The suit took nearly 90 hours to make and included many shades of pink including raspberry, cherry, rose and blush. 5.

A Personal Favour Jackie, who had already worn the suit at least six times before Dallas, sported it on that fateful day because her husband requested it . The suit was his personal favourite. 6. A Contradiction However, Jackie's personal assistant, Providencia Paredes, says she chose the suit for the Dallas event because JFK told her to "pack something light because it's supposed to be warm over there." 7. Jackie's Strength Although her suit was stained with JFK's blood, Jackie insisted on wearing the suit at Johnson's presidential swearing-in . When asked if she wanted to change, Jackie replied, "No, I want them to see what they have done to Jack." Jackie had incredible style: 1000+ images about Jackie Kennedy's Pillbox Hats on Pinterest | Jfk, The suits and Jacqueline kennedy onassis Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Jackie Kennedy's Pillbox Hats Jackie put the pillbox on the fashion map. From Halston to Cassini, the hat topped many of her most famous outfits. All rights reserved to appropriate copyright holders.

27 Pins505 Followers Jacqueline Kennedy’s Smart Pink Suit, Preserved in Memory and Kept Out of View - The New York Times The New York Times Fashion & Style |Jacqueline Kennedy’s Smart Pink Suit, Preserved in Memory and Kept Out of View Search Jacqueline Kennedy’s Smart Pink Suit, Preserved in Memory and Kept Out of View Critic’s Notebook Photo John and Jacqueline Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. Credit Art Rickerby/Time & Life Pictures, via Getty Images On the plane back to Washington, in her pink Chanel suit, caked with her husband’s blood, Jackie Kennedy resisted all suggestions from aides that she clean herself up. Instead, she just said, “Let them see what they’ve done.” But for the half century since John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the most famous artifact from that day, one of the most recognizable articles of clothing ever worn, has been seen by almost no one. Now preserved by the National Archives in a climate-controlled vault outside of Washington, it is subject to Kennedy family restrictions that it not be seen for almost a century more.

If there is a single item that captures both the shame and the violence that erupted that day, and the glamour and artifice that preceded it, it is Jackie Kennedy’s bloodstained pink suit, a tantalizing window on fame and fashion, her allure and her steely resolve, the things we know about her and the things we never quite will. That Mrs. Kennedy is so closely linked to an item of clothing is fitting. In nearly three years as first lady, she had gained universal celebrity for her youthful style. Politically, it meant huge crowds whenever she accompanied the president. But for Mrs. Kennedy, who felt vulnerable, fashion gave her a sense of separation from the public’s gaze. It was armor. Continue reading the main story So even on that day, before the horror of what ensued, to look at Mrs. Kennedy was to be drawn inevitably to the pink suit, a line-for-line copy of a classic cardigan-style Chanel with navy lapels. The suit came from Chez Ninon, a Park Avenue salon that created many of her clothes, following her taste for simple lines.

She wore it at least six other times, including on a 1962 visit to London and that same year to greet the prime minister of Algeria. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Fifty years ago, at noon in Dallas, Clint Hill, who was the Secret Service agent assigned to Mrs. Kennedy, thought the pink suit looked fluorescent against the dark blue of the car carrying the president and the first lady. “She stood out so much in the car because of the color of that suit,” said Mr. Hill, who has released a new account of the killing, “Five Days in November,” in time for the anniversary. “It was like the sun just illuminated it.” Now preserved in its vault, the pink suit and its accessories, still stained, the stockings blood-powdered and folded in a white towel, remain essentially unchanged from the day of the assassination. Only the outfit’s matching pillbox hat and white kid gloves are missing, lost in the chaos of that day. Photo Wearing the bloodstained pink suit that has become one of the artifacts of Nov. 22, 1963, Mrs. Kennedy arrived at Andrews Air Force Base and was escorted by her brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy.

Credit Associated Press Although the National Archives has kept the suit and accessories, including navy shoes, bag and navy blouse, since 1964, when they arrived in a dress box, the items legally belonged after her death to Caroline Kennedy as her mother’s surviving heir. So a deed of gift was made in 2003 with the provision that the suit would not be seen by the public until 2103. Through her office, Ms. Kennedy declined to comment. Over the years, the Kennedy family has sought to avoid the sensational treatment of assassination artifacts, and that is the explicit intent of the 100-year restriction. Nonetheless, Martha Murphy, chief of special access at the archives, said Mrs. Kennedy’s clothes are the only items in the assassination collection with this specific restriction. By comparison, scholars and researchers who meet special criteria of the archives may view President Kennedy’s clothing and the rifle used by Lee Harvey Oswald. To the best of anyone’s knowledge, access to Mrs. Kennedy’s suit for research purposes has never been granted. After Mrs. Kennedy returned to the White House, early on Nov.

23, her clothing was put in a bag, presumably by her personal maid, Providencia Paredes, and soon after placed in a dress box. Records show that it arrived at the archives sometime before July 1964, accompanied by an unsigned note on the stationery of Mrs. Kennedy’s mother, Janet Auchincloss. The note simply said: “Jackie’s suite and bag — worn November 22, 1963.” It is unknown whether Mrs. Auchincloss made the decision to send the clothes to the archives or, as many believe, was following her daughter’s wishes. Ms. Paredes, in an interview, said the suit was at first sent to Mrs. Auchincloss’s home in Georgetown, but she is confident Mrs. Kennedy would have made the decision on where to send it. “Nobody would have made that decision for her,” she said. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The Kennedy family never advised the archives about cleaning the suit, Ms. Murphy said, although leaving blood and other residue on garments is a standard conservation practice.

“It’s part of the history of the object,” said Phyllis Magidson, curator of costume and textiles at the Museum of the City of New York. Ms. Murphy, who has seen the suit, said it essentially looks brand-new. For all Mrs. Kennedy’s visibility, it seems fitting that her pink suit should be hidden from view. “She certainly understood invisibility and disappearance very deeply, as well as staged appearance,” said the cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, author of “Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon.” “So the unseen suit is a very poignant and accurate emblem of her contradiction.” And noting that Mrs. Kennedy’s interest in historic preservation adds another facet to the suit’s status, Ms. Magidson said, “It has everything encapsulated within it.” Curators cannot think of another historical garment imbued with more meaning, and also deemed too sensitive to be shown. Among items of apparel with similar resonance are garments worn in concentration camps and the tatters that remained after the atomic blasts in Japan. But these objects, while deeply affecting, are displayed in museums.

Other examples mentioned by curators include Napoleon’s death coat, a shoe dropped by Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine and the suit and cloak Abraham Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated. Mrs. Lincoln gave these items to a family friend. That man’s family kept them until the 1950s, when the American Trucking Association raised money to buy and donate them to the government. Since the ‘60s, they have been on display at Ford’s Theater, though the cloak was put away because of wear. Photo Ms. Kennedy wore the pink suit at least six other times, including in 1962 to greet the prime minister of Algeria. Credit Robert Knudsen/White House, via John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston But when Lincoln was alive, relatively few Americans knew what he looked like. Besides, his image, even if it had been familiar, would hardly have compared to Mrs. Kennedy’s riveting beauty and pop culture celebrity.

She was, as Norman Mailer said in a 1962 essay critical of her televised tour of the White House, “an institution being put together before our eyes.” For that reason, combined with the fixation on President Kennedy’s assassination and a charged media culture, most experts believe that displaying her suit would be problematic. “It would produce hysteria if it were placed on view,” Ms. Magidson said. Those who knew her say it is almost certain that Mrs. Kennedy played a role in nearly every step of the suit’s journey from Manhattan dress shop to Dallas, and eventually to the vault. She was a woman of meticulous organizational skills, who dictated to her White House secretary, Mary Barelli Gallagher, from her bed, and who dogged people with her morning memos. (Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. once likened them to Churchill’s “Action This Day” memos during World War II.) Advertisement Continue reading the main story Ms. Gallagher’s 1969 memoir, “My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy” makes a good companion to “The Death of a President,” by William Manchester, the one book on the assassination commissioned by the Kennedys. Loaded with details about Mrs.

Kennedy’s work and personal habits, Ms. Gallagher’s memoir is sort of a backstairs view of the noble purposes that Mr. Manchester ascribes to her. For instance, he referred to Mrs. Kennedy as a “retiring” socialite who was transformed by loss, “a new Jackie.” But he did not consider that maybe the skills and determination that she used to hunt down clothes and furniture were the same qualities she magisterially deployed after the assassination. And what about her stony refusal to change her clothes? Though describing White House duties, Ms. Gallagher offered many instances where Mrs. Kennedy had no compunction about saying no. She wrote, “If she didn’t want to participate in some activity, nothing could drive her to it.” The Manchester book described President Kennedy taking an unusual interest in what his wife planned to wear on the Texas trip, something he had never done in their marriage. He said to her, Mr. Manchester reported, “Be simple — show these Texans what good taste really is.” Ms. Paredes, though not disputing the account, gives less significance to it: “Maybe the president told her to wear the suit. I don’t think she gave it a thought.

It was a practical suit to travel in.” She added, “I did pack a lot of clothes for her, because you never know about the weather. The president called me on the phone. It was the last time I spoke to him. He said, ‘You know, it’s going to be hot in Texas.’ ” Correction: November 22, 2013 A critic’s notebook article last Friday about the pink Chanel suit worn by Jacqueline Kennedy on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 misstated the title of the Algerian leader she greeted while wearing the same outfit in 1962. It was the country’s prime minister, not its president. A version of this article appears in print on November 15, 2013, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Hidden Away, a Pink Artifact Of Glamour and Shed Blood. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe The Jackie Look: Fashion’s First Lady - NY Daily News The Jackie Look: Fashion’s First Lady The Jackie Look: Fashion’s First Lady NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jacqueline Kennedy with then presidential nominee John F.

Kennedy ride up Broadway in a ticker-tape parade. She is wearing the the coat and the pill box hat that was then copied all over the world. (Frank Hurley) NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, May 18, 2015, 12:00 PM (Originally published by the Daily News on May 20, 1994. This story was written by Mary Talbot.) When Jacqueline Kennedy entered the White House in January 1961, she assumed a role as culturally and politically enduring as any her husband played: She became and remained, the 20th century’s First Lady of Fashion. The pillbox hat, the black-framed sunglasses, the sleeveless suit-dress, the leopard coat, all are indelible symbols of an era, of Camelot’s vigor, freshness and panache. And not only did Onassis influence the style sense of entire globe, but she inaugurated American “style diplomacy” - fashion as a deft, fur-trimmed political tool.

“The Jackie Look, or what I call the A-line look, created a worldwide impression of such dimension that she became the First Lady of the world,” says Oleg Cassini, Onassis’ official designer during the Kennedy administration. “There wasn’t one lady on the planet who didn’t want to dress like her, comb their hair like her, walk and talk like her. And it was the first time an American designer could influence world trends.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis death coverage (New York Daily News) Cassini notes, the young First Lady entered the White House knowing the fashion would be her personal, diplomatic vehicle. “When she arrived, she didn’t have any clothes,” says Cassini. “But then she showed up in that little beige suit, with the little beige hat, and she looked so youthful and pretty. All the ladies in their fur coats looked like bears.” On presidential journeys, Onassis wielded fashion like an eloquent treaty. On a 1961 trip to France, she wore American designs - all Cassini’s - until she appeared at a triumphal Versailles ball in a Givenchy gown and diamond hair clips: What better way to honor the French than by honoring their fashion?

In Spain, she donned mantillas and bolero hats; at the Vatican to meet the Pope, a long vestment-like gown. Her style diplomacy, Cassini says, was a natural extension of “her finesse about doing the right things at the right times.” The “Jackie Look” literally swept the world. On Inauguration Day, the pillbox hat that Halston had designed for the First Lady threatened to fly off in the win. She shoved it back on her head, denting it, and from then on, pillbox hats were designed with discreet indentations. As or the famous leopard coat-and-hat set she posed in the cover of Life, it was so often copied, said Halston, that “she put that animal on the endangered species list,” where it remains today. Never-before-seen photos of Kennedy family up for auction The Lane Bryant chain marketed “First Lady Fashions,” and strapless evening dresses, Pucci pants, jodhpurs and sunglasses were copied and sold on the mass market. Store mannequins appeared in bouffant hairdos, and even the Leningrad fashion magazine, Mody, published ads for Jackie-like clothes.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life is a profile in courage For Kathleen Moore, a former Women’s Wear Daily editor who is completing a thesis on Jackie Kennedy’s style, the First Lady’s sartorial sense “was one of the main fashion events of the 20th century.” Moore calls Onassis’ famous sleeveless suit “the first power suit.” “It didn’t hide her figure, but it didn’t cling to it. It was a relaxed suit that flew in the face of pinched ’50s clothes.” And Onassis’ influence continues to this day. Scarves knotted under chins, striped French sailor jersey and jodhpurs have filled fashion pages in recent seasons, and Lamy, the French eyeglass company responsible for her famous shades, recently reintroduced the original “Jackie” design. Jacqueline Kennedy wears a dark red wool two-piece day dress by Christian Dior for a televised tour of the White House on Valentine's Day in 1962. (KENNEDY LIBRARY/REUTERS) Jackie Kennedy and her husband President John F. Kennedy just after their arrival at the airport for the fateful drive through Dallas.

She wears a pink Chanel suit made of wool with matching pillbox hat. (Art Rickerby/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image) First Lady Jackie Kennedy (C) in white coat and hat with Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith (R) on a visit to India. (Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett) First Lady Jackie Kennedy wearing a lovely patterned dress standing on the grounds of the Taj Mahal during visit to India. (Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett) Jacqueline Kennedy's Ann Lowe's gown with an exaggerated hourglass shape, and pleating details fashioned into flowers and a tiered hemline. (Bradford Bachrach/AP) Jacqueline Onasis Kennedy in London. She is wearing a safari-style jacket over flared hipster trousers and a polo neck jersey. (Handout) Even our collective memory of JFK’s assassination is embossed with her pink Chanel Suit with navy piping. And after leaving the White House, when official attire was no longer required, Onassis never lost her flair. Moore cites a recent photograph in WWD of Onassis in a Carolina Herrera dress, flanked by Herrera and another woman in the same confection. “She looked so much better than the others, and you know why?

If you look closely, you can see she had changed the buttons, the shoulders, even move the neckline.” As Oleg Cassini reverently puts it, “she will always be the great lady of fashion.” Tags: Jackie Kennedy's Pink Suit: 6 Things You Didn't Know About the Iconic Look | E! News Jackie Kennedy's Pink Suit: 6 Things You Didn't Know About the Iconic Look By Art Rickerby/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images There are few looks more iconic than Jackie Kennedy's pink suit and matching pillbox hat. And while many of us may think we're pretty familiar with the outfit the former first lady wore on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, the Today show has unveiled some pretty surprising facts about the historic suit 50 years after that tragic day in Dallas. Here's what we learned: 1. Dress For Less: Though many think the boucle suit was a Chanel design, it was, in fact, a knockoff of sorts. To avoid political criticism and embrace a made-in-the-USA look, the first lady had an exact replica of the French fashion house's suit made stateside from authentic Chanel fabric.

PHOTOS: Taylor Swift's Jackie O Fashions 2. Familiar Fashion: Before Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton , Jackie O was the queen of shopping her closet. The brunette beauty had worn the pink number a total of six times prior to that fateful day. 3. Presidential Influence: Though it was Jackie who ultimately picked what she wore in Dallas, it was the president who told her personal assistant, Providencia Paredes, "Pack something light because it's supposed to be warm over there." 4. Star Style: In his last public speech, JFK acknowledged his wife's pull on the public in her stylish suit. He joked that for a trip to France, he introduced himself "as the man that accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris" and that he was "getting somewhat the same sensation as I travel around Texas." He got a huge laugh when he quipped, "Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear." NEWS: Michelle Obama dishes on her biggest fashion regret 5. Swearing-In Suit: Mrs. Kennedy refused to change out of her bloodstained suit for Lyndon Johnson's swearing-in as the new president. "No, I'm going to leave these clothes on," she said.

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Question: Who famously wore a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat?
Answer: Jackie Kennedy