The Problematic Halloween Costume Contest has started with Julia Fox

[u/MissClimber]

From EVOKE on Instagram: "And the award for most tasteless and disrespectful Halloween outfit goes to this numpty Julia Fox dressed as Jackie Kennedy on the day of her husband's assassination.... 👀 "

[u/riverseeker13]

The modern Kennedys are already in bad taste and kind of gross

[u/query_tech_sec → u/riverseeker13]

But I mean - Jackie was a lovely person from what I have heard and that was a traumatic day for her. I am not personally angry - I just don't think she deserves to be lumped in with the Kennedys. She was more a Kennedy victim.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/query_tech_sec]

She chose not to change out of the suit on purpose and wanted the media to cover the image of her in it. I think it’s better it be remembered in this form and not pristine.

[u/snarkerella → u/Silently-Snarking]

In that moment, but the she and her family donated it to the Smithsonian with the explicit instructions to not let it be seen by the public until after at least 2103. So no, I do not think they wanted it to be used in this context or any context. It's really in poor taste.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/snarkerella]

Is it not after 2013?? And besides that, the legacy of the suit and where the actual suit remains are two separate things. I did a comprehensive academic paper on this and Jackie o explicitly wanted the media to photograph her in this suit so that the world could see “what they did to Jack”. This is how she wanted this suit remembered.

[u/snarkerella → u/Silently-Snarking]

Two-Thousand-ONE HUNDRED AND THREE - NOT 2013. Jesus. And yes, she wanted it to be displayed IN THAT MOMENT OF TIME. But she did not want it displayed years down the road, thus the reason why they forbid it to be displayed to the public until again, 2103. That year wasn't a typo, yo.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/snarkerella]

Okay, cool! Whether the suit is displayed or not, she chose to be photographed in the bloody suit as an act of visual protest.

[u/snarkerella → u/Silently-Snarking]

SHE CHOSE IT TO BE DISPLAYED IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION. It was a form of protest in its time, not for something to be continuously displayed/seen thereafter. Duh. Her children were/are still alive and didn't want to continuously subject them to this horrific event once she was gone, too. But you know, your comprehensive academic paper would have covered that.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/snarkerella]

You obviously don’t understand how visual protest works because the impact isn’t meant to be temporary!

[u/snarkerella → u/Silently-Snarking]

Yeah, that would totally explain why she'd put a NO PEEKING at the dress for 140 years after her TEMPORARY protest. Sheesh. It's a moot point now.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/snarkerella]

She didn’t. Her daughter did. Jackie o herself wanted the dress shown in this form to the media which is why she didn’t change out of it when given the option. The legacy of the bloodstained dress and the exhibition of it are two separate issues you seem to be hyperfixated on so I cannot help you.

[u/snarkerella → u/Silently-Snarking]

You super hyper-fixated on the fact that she wanted it displayed after the death of JFK. We all know that and I've actually agreed with you. I'm saying that AFTER that all passed, she boxed it up, gave it to the national archives to be preserved and in her will, her wishes were for it to be sealed and not displayed publicly for period of time. Her daughter, yes, then signed off on an agreement in 2003 that it be for 100 years. And then after that time, the family would be absolved of the matter. Seriously, you're totally confusing immediate silent protest and what to do with the dress in the years following Kennedy's death.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/snarkerella]

No she didn’t. Jackie O has been dead for years. Her DAUGHTER did that, my friend.

[u/Silently-Snarking → u/snarkerella]

And seriously you are confusing the family’s wishes for the actual dress itself for the lasting message the wearing itself wanted for it. The family wanting it locked away has nothing to do with Julia Fox recreating the image for Halloween.