Months after Labor Day, three of the inauguration’s top billing women came out in white suits. Hillary Clinton and the Trump sisters Tiffany and Ivanka were all wearing the color of sisterhood, according to CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash who noted the significane of Clinton’s styling.
“The color white is the color of the Suffragette movement, and she happens to like the color. I know that. But it also is quite symbolic that she’s wearing that the day she attends her opponent’s inauguration, hoping that she would be the first female president of the of the United States,” Dana Bash observed.
Clinton also wore white on the last night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia—and Clinton supporters wore white to the polls on Election Day, following the viral imperative: #WearWhitetoVote. A chorus of commentators praised Hillary’s brave display of feminist resolve wearing her signature color on such a difficult day. But, no such accolades for the new President’s two daughters, who were admittedly “also wearing white” ABC’s Clinton correspondent Liz Kreutz noted on Twitter, sans symoblism.
Hillary Clinton making many of her supporters very happy by wearing white (the color of the suffragette movement) today pic.twitter.com/LpCZGqdmi3
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) January 20, 2017
On the day their father would be sworn into the highest office in the land, the Trump sisters appropriated Clinton’s so-called “sartorial armor,” the white suit. In what we can only hope amounts to a premeditated upstaging, fashion-forward Tiffany and Ivanka, who heads up an eponymous fashion label, wore the “pristine aesthetic” too—almost as if to say, there’s a new feminism in town.
