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You're listening to the BBC World Service and now witness history first-hand accounts of events that has shaped our world.

I'm Sharon Hemans.

When the future president of the United States, John F Kennedy, married Jacqueline Bouvier in a high society wedding in

1953, she was asked who had designed her beautiful wedding dress, made with yards of silk

taffeter. She is reported to have replied that a colored dressmaker had made it for her.

The designer's name was Anne Colo,

and she was one of the first African American kitturees. Katourias. She was very, very slim, beautifully spoken, very gracious, very dignified.

She was always dressed in black with this enormous hat,

and she was very gentle.

She was a really lovely person to be with because she was very calm, very

delicate. She was always so charming. That was the first thing. I'm very quiet.

Dear guy I was working as a model in New York when she went to visit Anne Lowe in her shop in Manhattan in 1966.

She'd been inspired by a newspaper photo of Jacqueline Kennedy's dress.

I went into her Madison Avenue salon and I introduced myself.

And I said I'd very much like to be with her and it was granted and there I was going into her salon

seeing how the clothes were made so it was super. A young English woman

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