Powerful! "Why Hillary Clinton Is My Fashion Icon" (HILLARY SUPPORTERS GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

....Hillary Clinton is my fashion icon. She is my Chanel, my New York Fashion Week, my WWD, my Dolly Parton in a coat of many colors. I love her pantsuits. I love all of them, especially the black Oscar de la Renta ones with their sharp jacket lines. But more importantly than the pantsuits themselves, I love what they mean. Hillary has divined Buddha-level truths that are revealed in how she dresses, and I want everyone to worship at the altar of her glorious pantsuit world order.

What Hillary did with pantsuits was nothing short of genius.

She had worn suits and jackets among other fashion choices in those early years, but as her leadership was tempered by opposition, she took the enemy’s arrows and wove them into a standard uniform of a simple tailored jacket and matching slacks. You want to focus on her ankles? Here’s a pantsuit. You want to call her pejoratives like “dyke” for claiming power? Here’s another pantsuit. You want to assume things about her as a parent or wife? Here’s another pantsuit.

Those brilliant pantsuits were the new Girl Scout uniform meets futuristic unitard meets Wonder Woman bracelets. They deflected. They defined. They won.

Hillary didn’t invent the pantsuit or its usefulness to working women, but from her massive platform, women like me watched her distill gendered expectations and the entire sartorial vocabulary of powerful men into one distinct image that said everything that needed to be said. By the time she moved on from her role as First Lady, she wore it on the campaign trail, in her Senate office, on the streets of New York City following 9/11, on tarmacs before and after flying over 950,000 miles as our most traveled Secretary of State, in the most important hallways of the world, from daybreak until midnight. Hillary’s pantsuits stared down Putin, pundits, and perpetual dirty pool. In response, Hillary’s pantsuits said power, efficiency, urgency; I’m ahead of you. They said, I’m here, and I’m here to work....

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[Nay]

1. I never understood why anyone ever gave a damn about her

pantsuits. They were almost always attractive, fit well, and served as the female equivalent to the male suit and tie. I wore pantsuits almost every day to work, as did many, many other women. They really do the job and make dressing for work so easy.

Were the objections to her pantsuits from the RWers? Do they think every woman needs to wear skirts or dresses so their whiny preconceptions of how second-class (female, IOW) should dress are observed? I just never got the objections.