The sad story behind Jacqueline Kennedy's famous wedding dress

The sad story behind Jacqueline Kennedy's famous wedding dress

Ann Lowe is an African American fashion designer who has worked hard to please her high-class clients.

She was commissioned to design and sew Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress on her wedding day to John Kennedy, son of the US president, in XNUMX.

Reports said that it took about two months to work on the bride's ivory taffeta wedding dress and tiered pleated maid's dress, and more than 50 yards of silk taffeta to make Jack Kennedy's intricate wedding gown and about 10 other bridesmaid dresses. Just 10 days before the wedding, disaster struck for the fashion designer. A water pipe burst in Lowe's New York studio, and the wedding dress spoiled the bridesmaids' dresses. Anne Lowe, frightened by the news of the bride and family, decided to keep quiet. Lowe and her team worked day and night to recreate the intricate gowns. And a huge material loss for her, instead of a profit of 700 dollars, she incurred a loss of 2200 dollars, and her secret remained for years after the accident passed, and here was the material loss.

As for the moral loss, it was when the bride did not like her wedding dress, and described it as similar to a tablecloth and a lamp. Jackie asks about the designer of her dress, and she avoids answering the question because she is of black skin.

At the time, Anne Lowe was not surprised by Jackie's behavior, as she stated that she designed and made many dresses for the royal families in Europe and America, and most of them concealed her identity because she is a woman of black skin.

Although Lowe's clients are very wealthy, they have always urged her to lower her prices and often end up losing money from her commissions, and when Lowe declares bankruptcy, there is a rumor that Kennedy may have paid her debts anonymously to the IRS.

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