JACKIE KENNEDY: A FASHION ICON.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born into a wealthy family and raised to a life of privilege. Her 1953 marriage to Senator Jack Kennedy at the wealthy enclave of Newport, Rhode Island, was one of the most glittering social events of the decade. Mrs. Kennedy became a popular figure during the 1960 presidential campaign; after her husband’s election, her beauty, love of clothes, and sense of style set her apart from her rather plain predecessors as First Lady, Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower. Criticized in some quarters for wearing European fashions, she patronized American designers, particularly Oleg Cassini (whose designs, however, owed much to European originals).

Her inauguration outfit of a fawn-colored woolen coat with matching pillbox hat was instantly copied by thousands of women; a red dress (by Chez Ninon after a Marc Bohan for Dior original) that she wore for a televised tour of the White House became another iconic “Jackie Look.”

In 1968, five years after her husband’s assassination, Mrs. Kennedy married wealthy Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis; after his death in 1975 she returned to New York City and lived there until her death in 1994. Throughout those years she dressed with elegance and style; but her time as a true fashion icon came during her brief years in “Camelot,” the Kennedy White House.

9.Answer the questions:

(1) In what way did Jacqueline Kennedy differ from her White House predecessors?

(2)What details of her style became iconic for thousands of women?

LANGUAGE STUDY

Emphasis on verb ‘STAND’.

- to stand for: 1) підтримувати, стояти за; 2) символізувати, означати, позначати, означати; 3) бути кандидатом; балотуватися; 4) терпіти, виносити.

- to stand by: 1) бути присутнім; бути байдужим глядачем; 2) захищати, допомагати, підтримувати; 3) тримати(слово), виконувати (обіцянка); дотримуватися (лінії поведінки); 4) спостерігати, нічого не роблячи; 4) бути напоготові.

- to stand on1) залежати від чого-н 2) точно дотримувати ( умовності і тому подібне ); 4) продовжувати наполягати на істинності що-н.

- to stand out: 1виділятися, виступати; 2) не задаватися; триматися.

- to stand in with: 1) бути в хороших стосунках, підтримувати хороші стосунки; 2) брати участь, допомагати.

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