In Kamala Harris’s Debate Wardrobe, A Serious Message Punctuated With A Stiletto

When both Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence walked out on the debate stage Wednesday night, it looked like they were attending a funeral. Both vice presidential candidates wearing all black (save Pence with a red tie) felt right for the moment. After a week of tumult that included a chaotic presidential debate, President Trump’s positive COVID-19 result, an ensuring emergency hospital visit and bizarre, circus-like series of photo ops, was there any other choice? Harris and Pence alike seemed to pick up on the deadly serious nature of the moment, and perhaps even a sense of mourning for the country in a time of disarray. Harris at the start of the vice presidential election. CREDIT: AP Images All eyes have been on Harris’s campaign-trail wardrobe during the election season, a tendency that so often reveals an inherent kind of sexism that a woman politician can face in an election (and in public service, and more broadly, just in public). Nevertheless, the senator and vice presidential candidate has utilized the bias to her advantage, carefully choosing garments — and footwear — to convey to the public the type of leader she proposes to be. Her closet full of unisex Converse sneakers transmits a

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