Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy wore a pink Chanel suit on November 22, 1963. The suit was stained with the blood of her husband, U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The double-breasted, raspberry pink and navy trim collared suit was matched with a trademark matching pink pillbox hat and white gloves.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy wore a pink Chanel suit on November 22, 1963. The suit was stained with the blood of her husband, U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The double-breasted, raspberry pink and navy trim collared suit was matched with a trademark matching pink pillbox hat and white gloves. A long-time question among fashion historians and experts about whether the suit was made by Chanel in France or a quality copy purchased from New York’s semiannual Chez Ninon collections, was resolved by Coco Chanel’s biographer, Justine Picardie. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chanels suit was one of the strongest symbols of bourgeois female chic that could be found anywhere in the Western world, evoking a powerful image of a sophisticated, intelligent and independent modern woman. Although women wearing pink in the 21st century is common, pink was new to fashion in the 1950s, and was a color loved and even popularized to an extent in American fashion by Mamie Eisenhower, who endorsed a color which, according to cultural historian Karal Ann Marling, was called ‘Mamie Pink’ The suit had six gold buttons and four square pockets, two on each side. The fabric was a light weight wool from Linton Tweeds in a nubby weave known as bouclé.
The wide quilted collar jacket on the sleeves was navy silk, and at the top of each pocket blue silk. There were two gold buttons on the sleeve and around the edge of the jacket, which she did in Dallas. For cool weather, Kennedy would wear a matching silk Accompanying hat in pink band with a matching pillbox band of a matching pink band. The silk blouse came with a sleeveless navy shell blouse with a blue knotted scarf at the neck and tucked into the front of the front. It was said that the pink suit had first been shown by CocoChanel in her 1961 autumnwinter collection. After the last of these occasions, she was apparently not photographed wearing it until the day of the assassination, when she was pictured in it at Fort Worth and Dallas leading up to the assassination. She was revealed wearing it after stepping out of Air Force One at Love Field. After President Kennedy was assassinated, Jacqueline Kennedy insisted on wearing the suit, stained with his blood, during the swearing-in of Lyndon B. Johnson on Air force One and for the flight back to Washington, D. C.
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