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(60,536 posts) Wed Jan 30, 2019, 09:33 AM Jan 2019

Women Urged To Wear Suffragette White To Trump's State Of The Union Address

01/30/2019 06:39 am ET

A group of House Democratic lawmakers is urging women from both parties to declare “we will not go back on our hard-earned rights.”

By Amy Russo

A group of Democratic women in the House are urging women lawmakers from both parties to wear white in support of women’s rights for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, now set for Feb. 5.

The House Democratic Women’s Working Group made the request to evoke the women’s suffrage movement and to repeat its message, CNN reported Tuesday.

“Wearing suffragette white is a respectful message of solidarity with women across the country, and a declaration that we will not go back on our hard-earned rights,” Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) told CNN.

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) donned an all-white pantsuit this month when she was sworn into Congress. She noted on Twitter that she selected her attire “to honor the women who paved the path before me, and for all the women yet to come.”