‘Concerning Dress’, a regular fashion ... Many graduate suffragettes wore their academic gowns and mortarboards on parade. More and more women began to take up the colours, if only by wearing ...
(Katy Stech Ferek/WSJ) Many women at the Democratic National Convention have a dress code for the final day of events: white outfits, the unifying color for suffragettes who fought for the right ...
And the suffragettes’ colour scheme, devised in 1908 by Emmeline ... she has made a point of using fashion to make a point (and break the rules) since it was confirmed she would be joining ...
a term called suffragette white, worn by those who advocate for women’s rights. When people want to make a political statement about women, they make this fashion statement by wearing the color ...
The Scottish Parliament's presiding officer has apologised after a woman was ejected from a committee meeting for refusing to remove a scarf in suffragette colours. The woman was asked to leave a ...
She soon became a well-known figure at rallies, on her distinctive tricycle decorated in suffragette colours. May, like Annie Kenney, believed in militant action: smashing windows and destroying ...