Auction to feature Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis personal notes to designers

Over the decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote notes to some of her favorite designers. She even drew sketches of pieces she wanted.

This weekend, some of these letters will be auctioned off in West Palm Beach, Florida.

CBS News correspondent Vicente Arenas got an inside look at some of those highly sought-after items, and at the late first lady's flair for fashion.

Elegant, sophisticated, graceful: just some of the words that come to mind when describing Jackie O.

Her notes to her designer and to her interior decorator, being auctioned off by Rico Baca, show just how closely she cultivated her signature style.

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Letters written by Jackie Onassis to her designer about clothing she wanted to have made will be auctioned in West Palm Beach

"She's inviting these people into her life, to get close to her, close enough to give her what she wanted," Baca said.

He said those notes offered designers a look into a very private part of her life.

"She would have to be a little bit vulnerable," Baca said.

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Auction to feature Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis personal notes to designers