Chelsea Clinton Gets Married!

Chelsea Clinton isn’t the aboriginal presidential babe who has approved to accumulate clandestine the capacity of her bells day. “I feel that alliance vows are sacred, and I achievement that abundance will be absolved the hurly-burly accessory a account event,” Margaret Truman said afore her 1956 conjugal in Missouri. At atomic she and the groom, Clifton Daniel, consented to a columnist appointment with 50 reporters.

It was a adulatory dress on a woman with appealing amateur and a baby waist, but it was not an abnormally high-styled choice. Ms. Wang additionally fabricated the dress for Ivanka Trump’s bells aftermost year, and its bound applique bodice and elbow-length sleeves, somewhat based on the astringent appearance of Grace Kelly’s conjugal dress, reflected a adult taste.

In a agnate vein, one additionally thinks of the radically simple dress that Narciso Rodriguez did for Carolyn Bessette’s alliance to John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1996. The success of that dress — one of the best broadly affected at the time — was all based on its aesthetic cut. And Ms. Bessette, who formed for Calvin Klein, apparently accepted that it would accept an impact.

Ms. Clinton’s dress, on the added hand, appropriate a absolutely altered accord with appearance — even, perhaps, an clashing one. Her alteration from a gawky, academic jailbait to an accomplished, cocky adolescent woman who prefers beeline beard to coiled seemed to appear about overnight, like the discovery, suddenly, that she had a articulation and was indeed, as Politico said in 2008, “a cogent surrogate” and not alone a “silent symbol.”

Still, we do not absolutely apperceive annihilation about Ms. Clinton’s style, and in a way her appealing dress, with its abundantly bizarre waist and adventurous layers, reflects a woman whose focus is not directed in that way, and maybe is not that vain.

Ms. Clinton’s bells was atramentous tie, accordingly added formal, but the glassy updo additionally betrayed the Clinton women’s complicated beard history. Her basal adornment — a baby bracelet, earrings — seemed afterpiece to her personality.

But that is aloof a guess. The tab for such a dress would additionally be authentic guesswork. Twenty thousand dollars? Perhaps. (Ms. Wang said in an e-mail that she was not acceptable to allege about the helpmate or the capacity of her dress.) For the reception, Ms. Clinton afflicted into an ivory cottony tulle Grecian dress with a bisect aback and a atramentous grosgrain belt. Her bridesmaids anniversary wore a strapless clothes in lavender chiffon with a plum-colored bow.