Unexpectedly fashionable

Seen in a 1923 radio mag…

I’ve never seen a picture of Mrs Coolidge before. Unlike Calvin, she looked fashionable and sharp. Political wives were expected to be dowdy and drab, and most of them still are. Jackie Kennedy was the first well-known exception, but she didn’t shift the pattern much.

Looking up Grace Coolidge, she was indeed sharp and multitalented, and she was indeed an exception to the drab rule. We’ve wiped Coolidge from the history books along with Harding, so her personality is unknown now.