The First Lady’s sartorial taste also scandalized polite society. Alexander K. McClure reported that she “was vain, passionately fond of dress and wore her dresses shorter at the top and longer at the train than even fashion demanded. She had great pride in her elegant neck and bust, and grieved the president greatly by her constant display of her person and her fine clothes.” Observing a particularly low-cut dress she wore, Lincoln told his wife one day: “Mother, it is my opinion, if some of that tail was nearer the head, it would be in better style.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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