Except for the hair, it looks like a still from “The King and I”.
Thank you.
As for her class, she won my heart when a Secret Service guy in the car tried to pull her to safety when she climbed out on the trunk.
“Mrs Kennedy! What are you doing?”
“I’m picking up pieces of my husband’s head,” was her coolly snappish reply.
Like Jack, she was as tough as nails. But this thread is intended to be far shallower than discussing what makes a woman a classy dame.
Ike was classmates at West Point with Gore Vidal’s father, who related his legendary status for having nailed the French instructor’s wife. That famous smile that never failed him.
Strange though it might sound, I can assure you Diana was much prettier in person than in photos. Film did her no justice.
I’d always thought Jackie was very cultured, elegant and fashionable, but my estimation of her went way up a couple of years ago when her tapes with Arthur Schlesinger surfaced http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article10051101.aspx:
Jackie Kennedy was the kind of woman that other women thought was extremely attractive. Men, not so much.
I was unaware of these photos. She looks quite good.
Since my “thing” is complaining* about Canadians, not the French, I cannot in good conscience…aw, who am I kidding! That’s awesome, and raises her hotness immensely.
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- All in good fun, y’know. I love even the Quebecois. Even that woman in Montreal who was the only person in the Department of Public Works/Direction des travaux publics I could find who spoke English and who answered my question about the sewers of Montreal with, “What is this word you use, ‘sewer?’” but who I forgave being a dolt because she sounded cute. Whatever else I am, I am shallow.
Classy? Who else ever wore pearls to the photo booth?
Super stylish, and imho, yes class. She dealt with some harsh life blows in a very quiet classy way. Other than that? I didn’t see her as some “OMG, look at how successful she’s been on her own, WOW what a woman”! All this “she’s a single mother who worked her way up the ranks” crap is crap. Ummm, she was married to a president and then to one of the wealthiest men in the world. So she had job, so what? How hard it is to be a successful magazine professional when you’re already famous and wealthy?
I need to see a shot of all the first ladies in skin tight outfits before I can judge who’s hot or not. A pretty face in no way makes up for the right curves in the right places. In fact, it’s more the other way around.
Nobody’s denying that she (or Princess Diana) were stylish and iconic at all. Jacqueline Kennedy was undeniably classy and graceful as well.
The question is whether or not she was attractive.
I personally have never seen it; most any woman on TV is better looking, and has been for the past 40 years.
I think it’s a combination of her style and grace combined with the fact that she didn’t look like someone’s grandmother or great aunt lent her a certain relative attractiveness, but in comparison to contemporary women, she wasn’t anything special at all in the looks dept.
I mean, she wasn’t in the same league as other women considered beautiful or at least good looking who were about the same age - Grace Kelly, Anne Bancroft, Audrey Hepburn or Jane Powell come to mind as women who were actually attractive and born around 1930.