Hillary Clinton's 'Everyday Pantsuit Tee': from tired trope to campaign treasure
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Version 0 of 1. For $30, you too can dress like Hillary Clinton. Well, sort of. The Hillary for America campaign added a few items to its online store on Tuesday. Among them: the Everyday Pantsuit Tee. The T-shirt brings “a whole new meaning to casual Friday”, the website advertised. Not to be accused of hiding facts, the campaign went on to warn potential customers that pantsuit bottoms are not included. The back of the T-shirt reads “Pantsuit up”. Pantsuit up. http://t.co/UPnIVjzYDs pic.twitter.com/oC40gHAYHn If, like Clinton, you are a pantsuit aficionado, but you also want to make sure that the T-shirt aligns with your liberal beliefs, don’t worry: according to the website, the T-shirt is American-made and union-printed. The pantsuit comes in Clinton’s signature red color, which the 2016 presidential candidate wore on other important occasions such as for the first official Twitter image of her granddaughter Charlotte. .@BillClinton and I are over the moon to be grandparents! One of the happiest moments of our life. pic.twitter.com/Cww4r8C9Zt With more than a year to go until the 2016 presidential election, there have been calls for the media not to focus on Clinton’s appearance or her wardrobe choices. One such call came from Cecily Strong during the 2015 White House correspondents dinner. “This next part is a ‘repeat after me’ so I need your help here. I want all the media to put their hands up and swear something this election season, OK?” Strong told the audience in April. Then she led the audience in the following pledge: “I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary’s appearance because that is not journalism.” Related: Hillary onesies and ‘Rand on a stick’: the best and worst campaign merchandise “That pledge will be broken faster and with more enthusiasm than when my parents asked me to promise to stay a virgin until marriage,” the Guardian’s Megan Carpentier said at the time. And she was right. But, as with much of Clinton’s campaign, this pantsuit conversation is being conducted on her terms. The pantsuit tee is just the latest in a long line of 2016 campaign items, many of which have been available for purchase via the Ready for Hillary Super Pac. Clinton is not the only one peddling campaign related shirts. On randpaul.com, supporters can get a four-pack of T-shirts for $40. “You can wear a constant rotation of shirts ... with four in your drawer, you never have to wear anything else ... and isn’t that the perfect wardrobe for the well-dressed politico? We think so,” the website reads. The four-pack includes two shirts featuring Paul, one referring to him as fearless while the other reads “Liberty Bro”. The remaining two shirts read: “The NSA knows I bought this Rand Paul tshirt” and “We’ve come to take out country back”. |