Don't let Julia Fox fool you with self-serving tosh about Jackie Kennedy costume

Halloween is all about tasteless, over-the-top goriness. But has there ever been anything quite as offensive, inappropriate and crass as the "costume" worn this week by US actress Julia Fox? I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw the photos. There she was, made up to the nines, wearing a faithful re-creation of the pink suit Jackie Kennedy wore the day her husband JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Not just the suit, with matching handbag and pillbox hat. But the bloodstains - or horribly realistic fake ones - left on Jackie's jacket and skirt as she cradled the dead president in her arms in the back of their open-topped limo, moments after he was shot in the head.

Jackie, of course, famously refused to change out of her bloodied clothes in the hours after her husband was killed by a sniper's bullet.

"Let them see what they've done," she boldly said as she boarded Air Force One, where vice-president Lyndon B Johnson was to be sworn in as the man to take over from JFK as the aircraft sat on Love Field, waiting to fly Kennedy's body back to Washington DC.

Jackie refused repeated requests to change. What a remarkable woman she was. What an extraordinarily brave, symbolic gesture for that young wife to make, brutally widowed just hours before. (The suit was never cleaned and is now stored at the US National Archives in Maryland).

Now, almost 62 years on, her act of pure defiance and courage is reduced to a gross party trick by a 35-year-old B-lister. A Halloween stunt. A photo-opportunity. Fox says she wore the replica of Jackie's bloodstained clothes to a New York party "as a statement of [Mrs Kennedy's] bravery... weaponising image and grace to expose brutality."

What self-serving tosh. How dare she hijack a shocked, grieving woman's real-life decisions made on a desperate day in Dallas in 1963? Treat her memory (Jackie died in 1994 aged 64) with such callous, cynical opportunism - for the sake of a PARTY?

Shame? I very much doubt that Fox could even spell it.