Explore the iconic inaugural fashion of U.S. First Ladies, tracing styles from Mary Todd Lincoln's ball gowns to Melania ...

Vanity Fair Since Martha Washington’s appearance on George Washington’s Inauguration Day, the fashion choices of the First Ladies have been closely observed, analyzed, and symbolically presented.

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...

Roosevelt's secretary of state, John Hay, served as Lincoln's private secretary and was given the ring by Mary Todd Lincoln ... the traditional full morning dress, which typically includes ...

As someone here reminds me, Mary Todd Lincoln’s sisters all supported ... Though I have aimed to dress apolitically, someone rightly calls out my Sambas — the overexposed footwear that marks ...

Queen Mary was a vision on Tuesday when she stepped out wearing the most glorious gown for a special New Year's celebration. The Danish Queen, 52, was joined by her husband, King Frederik ...

Delusional and desperate do not describe Gilpin herself. She is warm and clear-eyed when we speak last week before her final ...

Queen Mary of Denmark oozed glamour in a jaw-dropping gown and gleaming jewels as she rang in the New Year alongside her husband King Frederik at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. Queen Mary and ...