Democrats Appear In Pink To Protest

World Views

- By VANESSA FRIEDMAN

Forget white suffragist pantsuits, the political uniform of the female Trump opposition during the president's first term. On Tuesday night during President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress, about three dozen members of the Democratic Women's Caucus wore bright hues of pink.

Amid the sea of dark suits in the House chamber, all that pink was impossible to miss. It was also impossible not to wonder if the members of Congress were falling back on an old performance strategy rather than grappling with their bigger problems.

There were congresswomen in hot pink. In shell pink. In baby pink. In pink jackets and pink skirts. There were even some congressmen in pink ties. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the former speaker, wore a bright pink pantsuit; Rep. Jill Tokuda of Hawaii, a bubble-gum pink blazer with "We the people" scrawled in black on her lapels; Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico, chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus, a raspberry jacket and cotton candy colored palazzo pants.