Hairstyles: The First Lady Edition Vol.1

Nobody will ever believe this, but Lady Bird had really good hair. She was always well-coiffed.

She dressed conservatively but she dressed very well. She had some beautiful designer clothes.

Following Jackie Kennedy and with her prominent nose, she was never considered a great beauty. Lyndon was a sadistic bastard as a person. And as a politician, he lied to the American people and escalated the Vietnam war. Some people will never be able to see past those things to who Lady Bird really was.

But Lady Bird's personal style has been underestimated over the years. She deserves more credit for being her own woman and fewer comparisons to Jacqueline Kennedy.

I prefer Jacquline Kennadey's to Nancy Ragen's or Hillay Clinton's.

I sort of agree, R1. It's like Michelle Obama - if you can't get past the fact that she's not white - you'll never begin to appreciate who she really is - a wonderfully, complex (sometimes flawed) human being who has led a remarkable life. And I get that some people have lived a long time and never imagined there would a non-white U.S. First Lady.

I see people say and post things about her that are so wrong. But if you let yourself be blinded by bigotry (especially when you can never admit that's the real problem), you'll never to be able to see her objectively.

However much the GOP tries to canonize Nancy and Ronnie - the truth is the truth. And when they try to portray Nancy as the GOP Jacqueline Kennedy, I have to laugh.

Nancy had the worst case of GOP Helmet Hair ever - it was more impenetrable than Reagan's imagined Star Wars Missile Defense Shield.

OP you left out the Doily Madsen.

Snack cake anyone?

Martha (nee Dandridge) Custis Washington was one hot fuckin' babe.

You just had to get past that mob cap and the powdered wig.

Um, I had several surnames and "Madsen" was not one of them.

I was born Dolley Payne and I married a wealthy Philadelphia lawyer and fellow Quaker John Todd, Jr. When he died, I married James Madison.

Two rich, successful husbands - Martha Washington was a dog next to me.

OP, I wish you had included Barba Buish and Roselin Crater. They were my favorite modern FLs.

Barba Buish is a man.

And she likes to beat the shit out of asswads who misspell her name.

P.S. Roselin Crater's not too happy about it either.

I always suspected Jackie Kennedy had problem hair; maybe the opposite of Mamie Eisenhower but still a problem. Her hair was always very "set" looking like her hairdresser used a ton of hair spray. I remember seeing her in high winds and never a hair out of place. She didn't vary that style much at all.

Jackie Kennedy didn't have perfect hair but it was pretty good. She disliked it, because she felt it was too coarse.

What Jackie Kennedy had was a great sense of personal style and access to some of the best hairdressers in the world. Mr. Kenneth frequently did Jackie's hair was in New York. Jackie specifically did not go for the stiff, over-sprayed helmet hair. She was young and she hated that look

Someone once said that Mr. Kenneth knew how to manage Jackie's hair so that it wasn't overdone - so that Jack Kennedy would want to reach over and brush a lock of her hair off her cheek.

No one used Mr. Ingrid of St. Olaf? Maybe Mrs. Humphrey, when she was Second Lady.

And Rose Nylund - he still does Rose' s hair when she visits St. Olaf or St. Gustav.

R8

Nancy Reagan was the best-coiffed, for me. But I will always have a soft spot for Mamie Eisenhower, cunt extraordinaire.

I am sorry how could anyone call Hillary, Michelle or Eisenhower's FOTUS hair stylish?

R4, Nancy Reagan's hair was appropriate for a woman of her age and station in life, particularly in the 1980s. Nancy Ragen, I'm not so sure about.

R10, I know what you mean, but that's how well-groomed women wore their hair at the time. The modern, looser hairstyles, with stray locks here and there, would have been considered unkempt, especially on a woman in the public eye. As R11 says, Jackie's hair was actually less stiff than most women's hair in the early 60s, and it was very becoming.

Lou Hoover, OP, forever and ever.

r7 is humor-impaired.

[quote] OP you left out the Doily Madsen. Snack cake anyone?

I'm as moist as a snack cake after finding this thread!

Eleanor Roosevelt actually had wonderful hair - long, thick, and natural blonde.

Eleanor still had pretty damn good hair when she was older.

She wore it long but pinned up when she was first lady, as matrons did during the 1930s. Of course Eleanor was no beauty, but at least Mother Nature showed her some kindness when handing out brains, and hair.

French first lady.

Brigitte Macron, 66, met her husband (Emmanuel Macron, 40) when she was his school teacher, he was 14... screwed him then, ruined her job and family for the love of a kid. How many male teachers would have been fired and convicted for this?

Thank you R1 for standing up for Lady Bird. If you read Robert Caro’s books about LBJ—he treated his wife like garbage. Poor woman.

This wins hands down.

That is why I voted for Mamie!

Bar Bush, vicious old WASP witch queen that she was, had great hair.

She’s Thing OneTwo because she ate Thing Teo, R27

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I didn’t even make the survey? That could drive a woman to drink.

Eleanor had lovely hair where it counted - down below. Unfortunately, her husband couldn't satisfy her - his paralysis started at his waist, so she was forced to seek solace from with the maidens in the presidential typing pool.

When they said "There is a magnificent bush in the First Lady's office, they weren't talking about Bar!"

First Ladies - lots of photos

R30

Michelle Obama's hair was very conservative Washington political wife. The same with Laura Bush.

I've noticed that since Michelle and Laura have left the White House, they don't really wear their hair in conservative first lady styles anymore. Michelle is much more experimental with her hair now. And Laura has grown her hair a little longer and it's more comfortable now.

I guess they can do that now that they are former first ladies and private citizens again just living their lives like anyone else now.

Michelle and Laura, two of my favorite first ladies ever.

R23, according to age of consent laws in France, a man would not have been convicted

This is prophetic! I foresee a time will come when luxury dissolves into the atmosphere like a perfume, and everywhere the simple virtues root and branch and leaf and flower. And on that bench there we'll relax, and taste the fruit of all our actions. Why regret life, which is so much like a dream?

[quote] Brigitte Macron, 66, met her husband (Emmanuel Macron, 40) when she was his school teacher, he was 14... screwed him then, ruined her job and family for the love of a kid.

They met when he was 14, but they maintain they did not have an affair until he was 18.

If you can prove otherwise, please do so.

Hillary Clinton has nice hair too. I've always liked the various shades of blonde she has.

But towards the end of her reign as first lady, she had more politican hair then first lady hair. I guess because she was just elected senator of NY state.

R37 this is about American first ladies, not foriegn first ladies.

Let's get back on topic please.

William Rufus King, the boyfriend of the only bachelor President.

[quote] [R37] this is about American first ladies, not foriegn first ladies.

#1) I was addressing a point another poster had made upthread

#2) I will post exactly what I like, where I like, when I like, and as I like.

I have stated my boundaries.