{"id":354,"date":"2012-09-05T22:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:22:21","slug":"ann-romneys-dress-and-its-connection-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/ann-romneys-dress-and-its-connection-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Romney’s Dress – and its connection to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newspapers and blogs have been going wild over First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s dress last night as well as Ann Romney\u2019s dress she wore last week.\u00a0 They have been calling Mrs. Romney\u2019s dress very \u201cReaganesque\u201d (it was red).<\/p>\n

\"\"Ann Romney’s beautiful red silk taffeta dress with cuffed sleeves and a small V-neck came from Oscar de la Renta’s pre-fall 2012 collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

But what many people do not realize, and perhaps something that Mrs. Romney may not have even been aware of, is what a wise choice the Oscar de la Renta dress was, as his family has many ties to the White House.\u00a0 Oscar de la Renta has been a designer of choice for many First Ladies including Nancy Reagan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Laura Bush.\u00a0 He was even responsible for the dress Mrs. Clinton wore for her daughter\u2019s wedding as well as Jenna Bush Hagar\u2019s wedding dress.\u00a0 But what so few know is that his connections to the White House are even deeper.\u00a0 Oscar de la Renta\u2019s wife Annette is the daughter of billionaire philanthropists Jane and Charles Engelhard.\u00a0 Mrs. Englehard was a friend of the Kennedys and a member of the Fine Arts Committee of the White House and helped restore the White House.\u00a0 Her most memorable contribution is, without a doubt, the White House Christmas cr\u00e8che.\u00a0 Englehard was first tasked to secure a permanent cr\u00e8che for the White House by Mrs. Kennedy and the search was continued and finished by Mrs. Johnson.\u00a0 For more information on the White House cr\u00e8che see Christmas at the White House<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jane Engelhard, her daughter Annette Reed de la Renta, and 6-year-old granddaughter Beatrix Reed pose with Lady Bird Johnson at the unveiling of the\u00a0White House cr\u00e8che, the Engelhard family’s gift to the White House, December 15, 1967.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newspapers and blogs have been going wild over First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s dress last night as well as Ann Romney\u2019s dress she wore last week.\u00a0 They have been calling Mrs. Romney\u2019s dress very \u201cReaganesque\u201d (it was red). Ann Romney’s beautiful red silk taffeta dress with cuffed sleeves and a small V-neck came from Oscar… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-house-wednesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}