She chronicles the impact fashion had on the image of the women living in the white house and what their wardrobe choices reveal about the time in which they lived. This program runs about an hour. Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Herbert Hoover in president ial library museum. My name is tom schwartz. Im the director. Im pleased youve joined us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a card which talk about some of our other Upcoming Events also dealing with our first lady exhibition. Were honored today to have Annette Dunlap as our speaker. Annette was awarded an m. B. A. From Washington University at and has more than 30 Years Experience as a writer, speaker, an entrepreneurial consultant. In her spare time when shes not raising cattle on a 29acre farm in north carolina, annette writes books. Her first biology was frank the story of france it cleveland, americas youngest first lady. In her second book involved a bit a
Estimated. As thousands of firefighters working shifts to contain the flames, only a drenching rain will prevent the infernos from spreading even further. Of next, the Herbert Hoover president ial Library Hosts author and ned dunlap as she explores the evolution of first ladies fashion. She chronicles the impact fashion had on the image of the women living in the white house and what their wardrobe choices reveal about the time in which they lived. This program runs about an hour. Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Herbert Hoover president ial library museum. My name is tom schwartz. Im the director. Im pleased youve joined us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a card which talk about some of our other Upcoming Events also dealing with our first lady exhibition. Were honored today to have Annette Dunlap as our speaker. Annette was awarded an m. B. A. From Washington University at and has more than 30 Years Experience
The National Archives hosted this 90 minute event. Hello, everyone. [applause] how are you . Thank you for being here. We are going to have a rousing evening, i hope. Certainly an interesting one. I have to say, the whole topic of what the first lady wears, we know, is a frequent topic of discussion. We have lisa here, who wrote the book on the first ladies collection. Lisa, i would speculate that you departmentt visited at the smithsonian. We are told it is the most visited exhibition at the smithsonian. We turn 100 years old this year. How fantastic. I want to ask all of our panel, why do we care so much about what the first lady wears . What is the impact . What is the legacy . What is the message . I think she is a symbolic figure. She is in a way, a little bit like the queen of america. People look at her to see what kind of a female image she is conveying. I think we also see her as i think that people definitely want time you late her. From how she is conducting herself to the w
So, i am going to ask all of our panelists, why do we care so much about what the first lady wears . What is the impact . What is the legacy . What is the message . A symbolicshe is figure. Little bit at her a like the queen of america. People want to emulate her from how sheance is conducting herself and with theg herself world. I want to remind everyone, we are going to have a question and answer session at the end of this, so if you have questions and you think you might forget, write them down. We have Dolly Madison, who presided over the first ball. Ral what do we think about Dolly Madison and the impact that she had . Its taking us back, way back. People criticized her. They thought she was too fancy and not aristocratic enough. When you think that Dolly Madison grew up as a quaker when she married James Madison she broke from this quaker background. A woman who was demurely dressed rake out inty to amazing close. A nod to the quaker cap. Wonder if this is what she longed to look
Us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a palm card which talk about some of our other upcoming events. Also dealing with our first ladies exhibition. Were honored today to have Annette Dunlap as our speaker. Annette was awarded an mba from Washington University at st. Louis. And has more than 30 years of experience as a writer, speaker and entrepreneurial consultant. In her spare time when shes not raising cattle on a 29acre farm in north carolina, annette writes books. Her first biography was frank the story of Francis Folsom cleveland, americas youngest first lady. And her second book, the gamblers daughter a social and personal history involved a bit of autobiography in exploring her fathers gambling addiction. Dunlaps Current Research brings her to Lou Henry Hoover. She has twice been a recipient of the hoover president ial foundations travel grants for visiting scholars, allowing annette to mind the Lou Henry Hoover ma