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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 Womens Working Groupall dressed in white.
The Womens 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 womens 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 Womens Working Group, was also directed to additional women members of the House.
Hillary Clinton famously wore a pantsuit to Trumps inauguration in January. The colors white, gold and purple were symbolic colors of the National Womens 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 Womans Party website.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)applegrove
(118,805 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)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).
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Rep Stephanie Murphy?Verified account @RepStephMurphy 1h1 hour ago
Proud to join @HouseDemocrats women in wearing white to @POTUS' #JointSession to show support for women's rights. #womenwearwhite #FL07
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