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It is Mother's Day, and Barbara and Jenna Bush, the president's twin daughters, are, fittingly, spending the evening in Manhattan with their mother. The first lady's in town for official business the next day, and her daughters have some too, sort of: a photo shoot, their first ever, for which they're trying on clothes in a room at the Central Park South hotel where all three are staying. Barbara, who like her sister will graduate from college in two weeks, is a bit preoccupied—she has a long night ahead finishing a paper on Czech novelist Milan Kundera, and another to write the next day for the same English seminar at Yale. Still, she manages to find a shimmery fitted Zac Posen to step into, while Jenna goes straight for a pair of Joe's jeans and a white jacket that accentuates her tan. The girls, who call each other "Sister," are having fun rifling through the racks, approving or nixing each other's choices, but then they get to a flotilla of enormous debutante-style ball gowns. This is clearly not their preferred look—both arrived in skinny jeans and little tops; Barbara, the avowed clotheshorse of the two, says she "lives" in her jade-green, pointed-toe Marni flats and is far more drawn to the elegant chiffon evening looks of Narciso Rodriguez and Carolina Herrera. But they are unfailingly polite and apparently good sports, so they agree to give the gowns a go. When their mother sticks her head in to say she's about to order dinner from room service, she takes in Jenna's poufy cream tulle: "That looks like what I wore to my seventh-grade dance." Jenna looks at her sister, whose tight-bodiced white satin number boasts a skirt better suited to a Velazquez infanta. "Mom," she asks, "do we look like cupcakes?" "Yes," says the first lady, "you do."
"Sister Act" by Julia Reed has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the August 2004 issue of Vogue.
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