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01/15/01- Updated 07:44 AM ET
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Separate looks for the Bush twins

By Maria Puente, USA TODAY

The Bushes' 19-year-old twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, will make the rounds at the inaugural balls in very grown-up dresses by Susan Dell, wife of Texas' richest man (yes, that Dell), who hopes to make her fashion name as well known as husband Michael's computer fame.

 

 

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Jenna, a freshman at the University of Texas whom Dell describes as "more a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of gal," will be wearing a strapless column dress with a deep V back, made of black French stretch tulle over bias-cut black silk charmeuse. The tulle will be hand-beaded with cut black jet and iridescent amethyst rocaille beads, scattered with hand-dyed, beaded rose-colored silk orchid petals and embroidered silk vines and leaves.

"She likes clean and simple elegance," says Dell, 37, well known in Texas among the ball-and-gala-going crowd for the elegant gowns she designs.

Barbara, a Yale freshman described as "more whimsical, trendy, chic," will be wearing a V-neck slip dress in layers of Italian silk tulle and iridescent deep-currant silk chiffon, decorated with silk ruffles, antique Venetian glass beads and an abstract pattern of sequins.

"The splatters of beads look like confetti (because) it's a celebration," Dell says. "I wanted the whole family looking well put together, the perfect family portrait — he's in a black tux, (Laura is) in red, and the girls in (complementary) colors."