Was Clinton channeling a little Pope as she stepped on the Democratic National Convention stage in an ivory suit?
As Clinton deemed the electoral race a “moment of reckoning,” we couldn’t help but hear and even see a few echoes of Olivia’s scandalous gladiator mentality.
The ivory pantsuit was true to Hillary’s style throughout the campaign, as her supporters often championed the president candidate while donning the Clinton administration’s ‘The Everyday Pantsuit Tee’.
Others marked Clinton’s all white occasion as a forecast for the Democratic nominee’s impending inauguration into the matching White House. And with a wandering eye towards spurned Bernie Sanders voters, a few critics found Clinton’s suit as a method of wiping the slate clean and starting anew as her party’s official candidate.
Perhaps the most striking analysis of Clinton’s attire is her uncanny resemblance to those women of the National Woman Suffrage Association parade in 1913. The women of the movement marched in all-white ensembles as they fought for gender equality and the female right to vote.
As first female vice presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro also sported all an ivory suit as she accepted her party’s nomination in 1984. It is rumored that Clinton’s whites are an ode to Ferraro’s accomplishments and the doors she opened for fellow female politicians.
Regardless of Clinton’s true motives, this particular pantsuit does stray from the candidate’s typical boxy cut seen during the campaign trail. The deep-v blazer and streamlined fit perhaps celebrate Clinton’s official presidential nomination and the Democrat’s movement into modern times. Character witnesses over the past week, including both FLOTUS and POTUS, have reiterated Clinton’s longtime and enduring efforts to reform the nation, and perhaps this pantsuit is emblematic of the bright future ahead.
So, not a poser for Pope, definitely not a Ferraro photocopy or even a mere advocate for the feminist movement. But rather, a modern Hillary, whose ivory suit potentially encompasses all three.
