Ponette as Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I’m so thrilled that Ponette’s first Iconocat look is complete, really proud to present Ponette as SCOTUS Ruth Bader Ginsburg! We had her photoshoot today and as you can see, she did an excellent job…

She is wearing a custom Supreme Court justice gown, a hand-beaded collar “jabot” and stick-on earrings. Sorry, no glasses… she wasn’t too fond of the earrings so I didn’t want to push my luck with the glasses…. let’s just say she left them at home, heh.

Nettie’s proud to serve justice and represent strong independent women everywhere, she’s ready for her first case!

Here she is next to Ruth Bader Ginsburg… I can’t tell who’s who… can you?

Here are a couple more shots…

Here is a closeup of her jabot.  I hand-beaded it to match RBG’s, it was not easy. Also picked up an awesome magnetic clasp at my favorite neighborhood bead shop, Blue Door Beads.

Here are some interesting facts I found around the internet about Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

• She has a collection of neck collars “jabots” that she wears, each one bearing a different significance. She has a studded one that she wears when she issues dissents, and her favorite one (as shown) is a white beaded jabot from Cape Town, South Africa.
• Ruth’s mother passed away due to cervical cancer just before her high school graduation. She says this about her mother: “the bravest and strongest person I have known, who was taken from me much too soon. I pray that I may be all that she would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are cherished as much as sons.”
• Having faced gender discrimination within the industry of law (after graduating Harvard law school with honors), she wrote, “The traditional law firms were just beginning to turn around on hiring Jews. But to be a woman, a Jew, and a mother to boot—that combination was a bit too much.”
• Justice Ginsburg was President Clinton’s first appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993.
• She enjoys mystery novels, horseback riding, water skiing and golfing!
• More interesting facts about her here.