Tricia Nixon had a style all her own, immortalized on this page in paper dolls of the early 70s. Such a frilly look is not for everyone, but she pulled it off just beautifully! 
We adore this fashion icon. Many perky, well-groomed magazine cover images of her liven up the office walls here at Lucky Find Salvage Company.
Judith Martin of The Washington Post, who now pens the famous “Miss Manners” column, was banned from covering Tricia’s wedding in 1971, supposedly for having once written that our girl “dressed like an ice cream cone.” Sounds like a compliment to me! Would that be vanilla or tutti-frutti?
We often imagine her at the White House in her pretty ice cream cone clothes, listening to Karen Carpenter croon “We’ve Only Just Begun” as she has her hair and nails done, while all around the country grubby kids (like my brothers and their friends) blast Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” in their upside-down-flag draped bedrooms.
Directly below are the paper dolls created by John Alcorn, which appeared in the May 8, 1970 issue of Life magazine. Caption enlarged for your reading pleasure.
TRICIA
The Nixon maiden whose hair is yellow flax is never seen in pants (better rags and tatters!). And pink, to her, is the prettiest color in all the world. When Tricia gets to her Western White House she will put on her patchwork peasant dress (right) and, thus disguised, bewitch her father, who is the President of the United States.
Next up, Artcraft’s Tricia Paper Doll, ca. 1970. (Cover, in blue, above.) This booklet came with a White House Tour Game For Two Players!
We want her wardrobe, in both vanilla and tutti-frutti!
What sort of filth is that big unwashed hippie spewing into Tricia’s squeaky clean ear?
Page Nine, Issue Three
Tricia Nixon
