Mrs. Lincoln’s Salon: Her Form Inclines To Stoutness

[Eva Elisabeth]

I agree, Gene (and of all First Ladies dresses I like Mary's the most because they looked so romantic, especially those with the flowers). I also think her shape and waistline exactly matched the fashion of those days (baroque?). Julia Grant's inaugural dress surprised me when I saw it reality - compared to her size, Mary's was XXS.

In her book entitled Mary, Wife of Lincoln, Katherine Helm gives Mary's weight as 130 in 1861 (p.175).

I have seen her height listed as either 5'2" or 5'3"

Thanks, Roger. Thus, even at 5'2'', her BMI was at 23,8 in the normal range under 25. (At 5'3", her BMI would have been 23.)
(Wasn't she down to 100 at the end of her life?)