Caroline Leaper

Jan 19, 2025 | msn.com | Caroline Leaper

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Jan 19, 2025 | msn.com | Caroline Leaper

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Jan 19, 2025 | yahoo.com | Caroline Leaper

The famously stylish and sociable hostess Dolley Madison was the first First Lady to host an official inauguration ball, in 1809. In her richly embroidered cream dress, with a substantial bustle, she set the tone for generations to come by pulling out all the stops when choosing her inaugural gown. Today, the inaugural gown is possibly the most important dress that an incoming First Lady will ever wear (she likely holds only her wedding gown in higher regard).

Jan 12, 2025 | vogue.co.uk | Caroline Leaper

Before we knew Kate or Naomi, before even Twiggy, or Jean “the Shrimp” Shrimpton, there was another British export who made waves as a supermodel of her era. In 1951 Barbara Goalen’s face – according to a Herald Sun article published that same year – had become “as familiar to Britons as Winston Churchill’s”. But how many today could recall her impossibly waspish waist or her haughty eyebrows, in the same way they might recognise Twiggy by the spikes of her lashes alone?

Nov 17, 2024 | msn.com | Caroline Leaper

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