Specifically, this is the story of Kate, a young Irish immigrant and talented seamstress who is employed by the famed New York fashion boutique Chez Ninon. According to witnesses, when Lady Bird Johnson asked if Jackie wanted to change her outfit, she replied, “No, I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”Īuthor Nicole Mary Kelby takes this iconic suit and builds a delicate and beautiful tale with it at the center, told, not from the viewpoint of “the Wife”, but through the lives of the people who designed and constructed it. Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States. That bright suit and its accompanying pillbox hat immediately conjures up tragedy – and strength: despite being stained by the blood of her assassinated husband, Jackie insisted upon wearing the suit hours later as Lyndon B. Few garments have come to define a moment in history as the pink Chanel suit that Jackie Kennedy wore on that fateful November day in 1963.
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