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Physical description

John Kennedy was 6'1" tall, and he kept his weight at a slender 175. He had cool gray eyes and light brown hair-several shades lighter than it usually appeared in photographs.

He was noted for his elegant and expensive wardrobe, and always took great care with his clothing. He changed his clothes from the skin out at least twice each day, and often wore as many as 4 different shirts in a single day. He particularly disliked button-down collars, and ordered the members of his staff to stop wearing them.

He also disliked hats-convinced that they made him look silly. This created a problem with the hat industry when Kennedy was President-the public was so impressed with their hatless President that sales had dropped off sharply. Yet he continued to ignore pleas that he allow himself to be photographed in some fedora. This continued to his dying day, when he went through the Texas ritual of being presented a cowboy hat in Fort Worth, yet steadfastly refused to put it on, despite the wishes of 2,000 Texans.