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applegrove

(118,805 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:21 PM Feb 2017

Women to wear white at Trumps first address

Alexandra Suarez, International Business Times, at Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/women-to-wear-white-at-trumps-first-address/

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President Donald Trump is set to give his first address to a joint session of Congress. Among those in attendance will be the newly appointed DNC chairman Tom Perez and a troupe from the Democratic Women’s Working Group—all dressed in white.

The Women’s Working Group planned on attending the speech, which will commence Tuesday evening at 9 p.m., and were all encouraged to wear white by the heads of the group in a letter that was released Monday by Florida Rep. Lois Frankel, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

The women were told to wear white, in honor of women’s suffrage, and in a move to “stand in solidarity with the women of our nation.” The letter sent by Frankel, who is also chairwoman of the Women’s Working Group, was also directed to additional women members of the House.

Hillary Clinton famously wore a pantsuit to Trump’s inauguration in January. The colors white, gold and purple were symbolic colors of the National Women’s Party and were to represent the following: gold, for “the color of light and life" and “the torch that guides our purpose.” Purple was for “loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause,” and white represented “the emblem of purity, symbolizes the quality of our purpose,” according to the National Woman’s Party website.


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Women to wear white at Trumps first address (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2017 OP
Maybe they should wear pink pussyhats, too. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2017 #1
OMG. applegrove Feb 2017 #2
I Googled images and it looks like she wore pure white. LAS14 Feb 2017 #3
Proud to join @HouseDemocrats women in wearing white to @POTUS' #JointSession PHOTO riversedge Feb 2017 #4
KNR Lucinda Feb 2017 #5
This is great from a symbolism standpoint Gothmog Feb 2017 #6
Good. Solidarity and resistance takes many forms. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #7

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
3. I Googled images and it looks like she wore pure white.
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:29 PM
Feb 2017

She certainly wore pure white at the last night of the convention and there were lots of comments about its being in honor of the women's movement. I personally thought maybe Melania was subtly sticking it to her dear hubby when she wore all white for her convention speech (where she honored Michelle Obama, of course).

Hillary Clinton famously wore a pantsuit to Trump’s inauguration in January. The colors white, gold and purple were symbolic colors of the National Women’s Party and were to represent the following: gold, for “the color of light and life" and “the torch that guides our purpose.” Purple was for “loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause,” and white represented “the emblem of purity, symbolizes the quality of our purpose,” according to the National Woman’s Party website.

riversedge

(70,307 posts)
4. Proud to join @HouseDemocrats women in wearing white to @POTUS' #JointSession PHOTO
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:32 PM
Feb 2017



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Proud to join @HouseDemocrats women in wearing white to @POTUS' #JointSession to show support for women's rights. #womenwearwhite #FL07



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