Jacqueline Kennedy: Size 10

In 1962, Chicago Daily News reporter Keyes Beech broke a story of national importance: "This reporter is now able to lift the veil of secrecy from Jacqueline Kennedy’s feet. I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10-A size shoes—not 10 double-A as previously reported." Beech’s scoop came after he "did a sneaky thing" and looked inside the first lady’s shoes when she visited the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in India and had to put on sandals. But in fact, Mrs. Kennedy’s big feet left quite the impression on many women in the 1960s. As Susan J. Douglas wrote in her book Where the Girls Are: "The fact that Jackie Kennedy's foot would never have fit into Cinderella's size 4-A glass slipper seemed highly symbolic at this moment in history...Jackie had these traditionally 'masculine' qualities—she was smart and loved intellectual pursuits, she was knowledgeable about history and the arts, she wore pants, and she had big feet—yet she was still completely feminine."