Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, 1953

Jacqueline Bouvier married Senator John F. Kennedy in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12, 1953, in a portrait-neckline gown by Ann Lowe, a Black designer who dressed New York society. Toni Frissell's photo shows the fitted bodice and the bouffant skirt worked in tiers and circles. The dress took 50 yards of ivory silk taffeta and more than two months to make. Lowe's studio flooded just ten days before the wedding, and her name went unmentioned in the press coverage at the time.