What Is Melania Trump’s Dress Trying to Tell Us? - The Cut

What does the First Lady’s dress mean? Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s military muscle flex, I mean totally regular Fourth of July parade, was an unrelenting spectacle of tanks and star-spangled banners. The president and vice president dressed to match the cacophony of American flags, in navy-blue suits with red power ties; Second Lady Karen “Mother” Pence draped some red-white-and-blue bunting around her neck. First Lady Melania Trump went her own way, though, opting to wear a white, rainbow-striped dress and bright fuschia heels, four days after Pride month wrapped.

It’s an interesting choice for an aggressively patriotic occasion, and a definite departure from the dress code. What do you think it means?

Some onlookers read the dress, an off-one-shoulder number by Carolina Herrera, as a possible rebuke of her husband’s anti-LGBTQ policies. Which … maybe? Hard maybe.

@FLOTUS loving the gay pride rainbow subtlety. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

— GP (@gepers) July 5, 2019

Melania’s dress is a couple days late for Pride month.

— Christine (@christysevans) July 5, 2019

I'd like to think Melania wore rainbow stripes as revenge for not being allowed out of the White House for Pride, but its likely she was actually told she had to wait till after Pride Month to wear it so here we are. https://t.co/NpVS4qlprU

— Daniel (@DailyLibber) July 4, 2019

As the New York Times points out, Melania has selected similar designs — a rainbow-striped Mary Katrantzou design worn to the 2017 White House congressional picnic, which just happened to coincide with New York City’s pride parade weekend — at seemingly significant moments, suggesting possible support for an agenda that diverges from her husband’s. However! Remember that Zara jacket splashed with a deafening message — “I really don’t care, do u?” — she chose to visit migrant children being detained in prison-like conditions? The one her camp initially defended as just a standard, meaningless jacket, and she later described as a message “for the people and the left-wing media that were criticizing me.” It’s tempting to read her subdued, nontraditional First Lady presence as subtle rebellion, but then again, her public-facing opinions tend to align with her husband’s.

So: Sartorial symbolism meant to distance herself from her husband’s administration, or simply a dress? We may never know.

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