Why were democratic women wearing white at Trump’s address?

To understand why they chose to wear white, you have to go back to the early 20th century.

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Republican women in the house have made sure to clarify they’re not in solidarity with the House Democrats.

“I’m wearing suffragette white for Trump’s #JointSession in honor of the generations of women who marched & fought for our sacred rights”, tweeted Rep. Barbara Lee. “And their plans for [the Affordable Care Act] repeal threaten a return to the days of health care inequality for women”.

Some women also wore white on Election Day in November, just one month after a 2005 video surfaced of Trump, now 70, bragging to Billy Bush that he could “grab” women “by the pussy”.

Or that it’s a color that has been embraced by a long line of women in politics, like Geraldine Ferraro when she accepted the vice presidential nomination.

Hillary Clinton famously wore a pantsuit to Trump’s inauguration in January. She also wore white at other major moments during the presidential campaign, including when she became the first woman to accept a major party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia a year ago.

And as the wearers of white themselves pointed out: The color actually signifies a slew of political and cultural messaging. While white is “the emblem of purity, symbolises the quality of our objective”.

Purple is the look of “loyalty, constancy to goal, unswerving steadfastness to a cause”.