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Nancy Pelosi's amazing fashion sense (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2021 OP
bwahahahaha Kali Jan 2021 #1
hahah Hell Yes. Livbaker Jan 2021 #2
Fantastic ornotna Jan 2021 #3
Yup shanti Jan 2021 #26
trump's not too bright NJCher Jan 2021 #4
When he binge watches the reruns he won't know which is which lame54 Jan 2021 #5
Well, there is the mask... Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #13
You give him too much credit lame54 Jan 2021 #18
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV" Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #20
perfect! NJCher Jan 2021 #23
I believe she wore black intentionally the last time PatSeg Jan 2021 #44
ah! NJCher Jan 2021 #45
As time goes by, PatSeg Jan 2021 #46
Didn't notice the dress but BBG Jan 2021 #6
She also used the lecturn the yahoo was mugging with the other day StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #14
Reminds me of the late RBG's style I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2021 #7
Me too. soldierant Jan 2021 #30
Well she's definitely not an Elitist Submariner Jan 2021 #8
OMG - that's hilarious StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #9
When you're getting Impeached for 2nd time & Cha Jan 2021 #10
I love it!!!!n/t Upthevibe Jan 2021 #11
Nancy has a lucky impeachment dress... Marie Marie Jan 2021 #12
Ha! BComplex Jan 2021 #42
Love her wit! Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #15
Let's hope her dry cleaners can turn it around before the next one. meadowlander Jan 2021 #16
I liked the way she held up the impeachment papers for the cameras just like Trump doc03 Jan 2021 #17
If Nancy Pelosi's dress gives tRump fits, PufPuf23 Jan 2021 #19
Isn't there some unique detail about her necklace that trolls trump or is symbolic of impeachment? yonder Jan 2021 #21
It was the Mace Pin, which apparently she didn't wear this time msfiddlestix Jan 2021 #33
Thanks. yonder Jan 2021 #38
I just love her Deuxcents Jan 2021 #22
I also like that the dress is black. llmart Jan 2021 #24
It looks navy blue to me Sanity Claws Jan 2021 #40
Or as someone said greblach Jan 2021 #25
That dress deserves a place at the Smithsonian Institution. ❤ nt littlemissmartypants Jan 2021 #27
... pazzyanne Jan 2021 #28
You're missing the point. JeaneRaye Jan 2021 #29
A lot of them wore black suits. Black for mourning, but also to project authority. PatrickforO Jan 2021 #36
Hilarious in a pointed kind of way. PatrickforO Jan 2021 #31
I recall this quite well. And last year she wore a certain broach which can partly be seen msfiddlestix Jan 2021 #32
There is a mace associated with the House, or specifically the Speaker. Large thing, traditional... Hekate Jan 2021 #34
I'll have to google the meaning of mace in this context. msfiddlestix Jan 2021 #35
Here's a link Hekate Jan 2021 #37
Fascinating history... msfiddlestix Jan 2021 #39
Is the dress navy blue or black? Sanity Claws Jan 2021 #41
Some see it as white and gold! Tanuki Jan 2021 #43

PatSeg

(47,582 posts)
44. I believe she wore black intentionally the last time
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 05:00 PM
Jan 2021

to denote what a sober occasion it was. I'm sure it is no coincidence that she wore it again for Impeachment, the Sequel.

Love that dress by the way. She has great taste!

NJCher

(35,721 posts)
45. ah!
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 05:37 PM
Jan 2021

Probably.

I like to watch Nancy's fashion choices. Instead of getting a pout on, like the soon-to-be-gone head of another government branch, she has fun with masks. She has a color-coordinated mask for just about every outfit. If she takes the mask off, she pulls it down around her neck and it looks like a scarf. Again, coordinated. This cannot be chance.

She looks great in heels, but if I were in that spot? Sneakers. I'll be damned if I'd be tromping around that huge building in such shoes. And get around she does; the news media often shows her briskly walking the corridors to one place or another.

PatSeg

(47,582 posts)
46. As time goes by,
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:13 PM
Jan 2021

I am more in awe of her all the time. I don't feel like she ever got the credit she deserved until recently. She's led an incredible life.

I agree about the heels. There's no way I could handle running about those hallways in heels. I gave up on heels a long time ago, much too hazardous for a klutz like me.

BBG

(2,550 posts)
6. Didn't notice the dress but
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:14 PM
Jan 2021

Did notice her doing the trump-see-what-I-signed show for all to see her signature on the Impeachment bill. She turned it around and showed us all it was official!

soldierant

(6,914 posts)
30. Me too.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:23 AM
Jan 2021

And she definitely has certain collars for certain occasion. Jow she manage with only one "dissent collar"0 I do not know.

Submariner

(12,509 posts)
8. Well she's definitely not an Elitist
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:15 PM
Jan 2021

Hell, who knows an elite woman who would dare be caught dead in the same dress or shoes?

doc03

(35,363 posts)
17. I liked the way she held up the impeachment papers for the cameras just like Trump
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:21 PM
Jan 2021

does with his executive orders. Maybe that is normal I don't know.

PufPuf23

(8,825 posts)
19. If Nancy Pelosi's dress gives tRump fits,
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:26 PM
Jan 2021

no way can the GOP in Senate fail to convict (unless they are complicit liars and traitors).

yonder

(9,671 posts)
21. Isn't there some unique detail about her necklace that trolls trump or is symbolic of impeachment?
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:29 PM
Jan 2021

I vaguely remember something like that the first time around.

Deuxcents

(16,315 posts)
22. I just love her
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:31 PM
Jan 2021

I may not always agree, but she’s much smarter n savvy than I could ever be. I so admire her. She looks great and a good eye on the symbolism. Thanks, Madame Speaker...

JeaneRaye

(402 posts)
29. You're missing the point.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:17 AM
Jan 2021

Nancy Pelosi wears colors. She doesn't wear black. The two times she has worn this black suit is for the impeachment. I'm pretty sure she wears it for funerals and other sad occasions, as well. Nancy Pelosi wore this suit because of the sadness she feels about what has happened to this country under Trump. I feel her pain. Although, we are all happy that this President has been impeached again, and will soon be gone, we are sad for our country. Sad, because of the traitors that still support him. Sad, because of the Congresspeople who abetted this attempted coup.

PatrickforO

(14,587 posts)
36. A lot of them wore black suits. Black for mourning, but also to project authority.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 02:06 AM
Jan 2021

It is interesting though, that she wore the same one for both impeachments.

I know we all felt the fury at watching the armed mob storm our Capitol Building, hurting, killing, defacing, ransacking. And with reports of panic buttons being torn out days before the coup attempt, as well as the insurrectionists being aided by Republican members of Congress taking them on tours, texting Pelosi's location to them - it is no wonder that one Capitol Policeman committed suicide just a day after the ordeal. He couldn't bear what he saw - the desecration of what he loved and believed in.

I am so very furious at Trump for making all this happen, and at the hate-filled white nationalist thugs who make up his private MAGAT army. The soldiers now guarding the Capitol have live ammunition, did you know? They will defend our republic with lethal force. DC looks more like a third world country than the epicenter of world democracy. And TRUMP DID THIS.

Your rejoinder to this thread reminds me of the old Johnny Cash song, Man in Black. It has always been one of my favorites.


PatrickforO

(14,587 posts)
31. Hilarious in a pointed kind of way.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:47 AM
Jan 2021

I also liked the way she went out and addressed the troops. Glad she's Speaker.

msfiddlestix

(7,285 posts)
32. I recall this quite well. And last year she wore a certain broach which can partly be seen
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:53 AM
Jan 2021

the gavel is in the way of full view. A striking and special broach with a particular meaning or symbol I remember was remarked on last year, but no longer remember the specifics.

edit to say I see that it was a Mace Pin.. stunning really.

Hekate

(90,784 posts)
34. There is a mace associated with the House, or specifically the Speaker. Large thing, traditional...
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:58 AM
Jan 2021

...Nancy went to a jeweller and had a copy made into a brooch, which she wears when she’s presiding.

msfiddlestix

(7,285 posts)
35. I'll have to google the meaning of mace in this context.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 02:02 AM
Jan 2021

I recall it mentioned last year, but never got around to looking up the term in this context. It is really quite the striking against the gorgeous shade of Navy Blue (it looks to me). She wears everything so well, sort of classical.

msfiddlestix

(7,285 posts)
39. Fascinating history...
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 09:38 AM
Jan 2021

Loved reading the history in the beginning of our country. My curiosity extended to the origin of the term which turns out to be French.

Etymology: Middle English mace "a heavy spiked club," from early French mace (same meaning); probably of Latin origin
1 : a heavy spiked club used as a weapon in the Middle Ages
2 : an ornamental staff carried as a symbol of authority



I was trying to get a handle on the connection between the herb mace and a weapon (before it became a symbol of authority)..

Now I realize the word mace originated in France, and it appears that the herb mace liquefied was used as a weapon possibly before the middle ages with the connection to the ornamented staff.

I wonder if the speakers Mace had been stolen, and if that's the explanation for why she wasn't wearing it in yesterday's impeachment.


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