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Jessica McClintock, dressmaker who outfitted generations of prom-goers and brides, dies at 90
Emily Langer, The Washington Post
March 15, 2021
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High school students shop for prom dresses at the Jessica McClintock boutique at Tysons Corner Center in Northern Virginia in 2011.Washington Post photo by Sarah L. Voisin.
Jessica McClintock, a fashion designer who outfitted generations of young women for their homecoming dances and proms, supplied their bridesmaid dresses and bridal gowns and thus evoked for many a lace-draped aura of nostalgia, died Feb. 16 at her home in San Francisco. She was 90.
She had congestive heart failure, said a half sister, Mary Santoro. ....

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