Forget white suffragistic pants suits, the political uniform of the female Trump position during the first term of the president. On Tuesday evening during the speech by President Trump to a joint session of the congress, about three dozen members of the Democratic women’s caucus wore clear shades of pink.
In the midst of the sea of dark suits in the living room, all that pink was impossible to miss. It was also impossible not to wonder whether the members of the congress fell back on an old performance strategy instead of struggling with their greater problems.
There were congress women in hot pink. In Shell pink. In baby pink. In pink jackets and pink skirts. There were even a few congress members in pink tires. Nancy Pelosi wore a bright pink pantsuit; Representative Jill Tokuda van Hawaii, a Bubble-Gum Pink Blazer with “We the People” scribbled in black on her lapel; Representative Teresa Army Fernandez from New Mexico, chairman of the Caucus, a raspberry jacket and cotton candy -colored Palazzo pants.
“We have decided to use a strong color, because what is happening now is more extreme than ever,” said Mrs. Fernandez, referring to Mr Trump’s policy and executive orders on the health care of women and Ukraine, among other things. Pink is, she said, “the color of the power of women, of perseverance and of resistance.”
As a color, pink is associated with stereotyping and marginalization of women and gays in modern times. In the 1970s, the term ‘Pink collar‘Referred to jobs that are overwhelmed by women: secretary, nurse, cleaning lady. Later the term “pink ghetto” was conceived to refer to low -paid female work.
But Elsa Schiaparelli also called the color “shocking!” And “Barbie” made pink a feminist flag.
It talks about the female body and meat in an almost visceral way. (There is a reason why breast cancer consciousness has taken over the pink ribbon.) It also reminds of 2017 and the first term of Mr Trump, when thousands of women throughout the country bren pink pussies to wear during a protest march on the day after his curse.
Although the hats have not appeared, by taking the color and expanding to their entire outfit, the conference women try to win it back as a sign of opposition. It caused a striking contrast with the modest gray Dior -suit worn by Melania Trump and the Zwarte Oscar de la Renta of Ivanka Trump. Not to mention the casting of the blush colored pantsuit from USSha Vance, from the Los Angeles label The Sei, in a somewhat confusing light.
Other colors were used as a form of silent rejection during Mr.’s speech. Trump – Representative Bill Foster Van Illinois was wearing a yellow and blue tie to support Ukraine, just like some of him colleagues.
But it was pink that the complications seemed to symbolize, both good (it was a start with a uniform reaction) and bad (it risked to come across as superficial and a little thin), of linking a protest to a color.
Yet the legislators believed that it was worth wearing something that would stand out. Mr. Trump may have the microphone, Mrs. Fernandez said: “But with color, right for him, we were able to register our protest.” Or try it at least.
(The protest was of course not just a matter of color. Democrats brought guests to the address, focusing on people who had caused damage to Mr Trump and paddles were wearing the text “Musk Steals”, “Lies” and “Save Medicaid”.))
Although it is difficult to know if the pink Mr. Trump was bothering or encouraged him, it is clear that Mr Trump is hypersensitive to the power of costume, especially in times of high public pagtry and peak television viewers. Look at how he greeted the Ukrainian leader VolodyMyr Zensky for their diplomacy-busting meeting last week commentary On his choice of clothing, sarcastic observation of the military shirt with long sleeves and pants that he had worn at the White House: “You are all dressed today.” Mr. Trump has stylized his own patriotic uniform and vice president JD Vance and speaker Mike Johnson to match for the joint address.
No wonder that with almost every state of the Union during the first term of Mr. Trump, a form of silent protest became: those white suits in 2017, 2019 and 2020; black for #metoo in 2018. By the time of the last state of the Union of Joe Biden, when the presidential race was underway, it was a visual sign of the combat lines that were drawn on both sides of the Party -Gangpad – and a preview of what would come.
