Women who work together will attest that inexplicably there arrives
at random a day every so often when everyone shows up in the same color
or color combination. A few of my Facebook friends, in the run-up to
Hillary Clinton's landmark speech last night, speculated on what color
Hillary would chose to sport for the history books.
Getty Images Image caption A white dress code for the road to the White House
Hillary
Clinton wore a white pantsuit on the last leg of the race to the White
House. Many column inches have been spent on the image of the candidates
and their spouses, almost as much as on their political message. So
what were they trying to say, and did it work?
The importance of a candidate's fashion image in a world which revolves around branding and marketing cannot be overstated.
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She will mostly be seen in trouser suits - a businesslike style that would do as well in a boardroom as in the White House.
No surprise then that on the night of her acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, she wore her trademark pantsuit.
It is early days, and no fashionista has yet ventured to name the label, but much has already been made of the colour.
White for purity, white for angelic, white for new and fresh, white for White House.
But also the colour of the suffragettes, as social media users were quick to point out:
Before
feminists get all riled and start telling me that we would never
discuss this if she were a man, I urge you to click on the article and
read more since the next topic is Donald Trump's sartorial selections
with a photo of him with his wife who chose to wear this on the evening
of her big speech - or rather her reading of Michelle Obama's speech
from 2008.
What
was interesting, last night, was that Hillary was not the only woman on
the stage to zero in on "Suffragette White" for this historical
evening. Here is what Ohio's Joyce Beatty packed in her suitcase for
her speech in Philadelphia yesterday.
She
looked beautiful. Yes, that's Melania's dress, but Joyce did not copy
her copied speech. I laughed for nearly an hour. We got the memo,
Joyce! You rocked it!
