Jackie O

I remember when John F. Kennedy died. I was just a little girl staying home from school ill, lying on the living room sofa watching television. All of a sudden a news bulletin came on the TV, “We interrupt this program for a special announcement. President Kennedy has just been shot.” It was a terrible ordeal, but through all the pain and suffering Jackie Kennedy held her head high. My, how she suffered; it was written all over her face. Even as a little girl, I could see the pain there. Yet she had this beauty and pose about her, even in her suffering. When she remarried and became Jackie Kennedy Onassis, she still had this beauty and pose about her.

The media added to her identity making her into an icon. She became an icon for classic beauty, if she wasn’t one already. She wore plain shifts as dresses. They became the vogue. They were a plain style, but also elegant. Everyone wanted the Jackie O shifts. They were quite the fashion fad at the time, but I was still a little girl. Then in 1994, the Jackie O shift had a comeback. It was really the style and I finally bought one. When I put it on, I felt wonderful and a feeling of class came over me too, but as far as icons go – Jackie O was a classic!