{"id":2393532,"date":"2025-01-22T06:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-cant-stand-the-trump-vance-ladies-golden-age-aesthetic\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:34:48","slug":"media-cant-stand-the-trump-vance-ladies-golden-age-aesthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-cant-stand-the-trump-vance-ladies-golden-age-aesthetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Can&#8217;t Stand The Trump-Vance Ladies&#8217; &#8216;Golden Age&#8217; Aesthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-cant-stand-the-trump-vance-ladies-golden-age-aesthetic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2393532&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the recent inauguration\u2062 where Melania Trump and\u200c other women in the Trump\u200c orbit opted for traditional \u200band classic fashion styles, contrasting sharply wiht the more eccentric sartorial choices \u200cseen during the Biden inauguration. It reflects on how media \u200doutlets reacted to thes conservative fashion\u2064 choices, \u2062with some criticizing Melania \u2062and Ivanka Trump for appearing \u2064&#8221;too regal&#8221; or reminiscent of British royalty, which was viewed as inappropriate \u2063for an American democratic event. The piece highlights a \u200dtrend in contemporary fashion\u200b where traditional aesthetics are\u2062 ofen dismissed in favor of\u200c what\u200c is deemed \u200d&#8221;transgressive&#8221; or\u2062 &#8220;offensive&#8221; to conventional norms. Notably, the \u2063article expresses\u200c a sense of irony that a return to more classic styles is provoking such media \u200bire,\u2064 suggesting that the fashion choices of the Trump women embody a desire for normalcy and elegance that contrasts with the more avant-garde styles previously\u2062 celebrated.\u2064 the article implies a cultural debate over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fat-activist-plus-size-model-tess-holliday-comes-out-as-anorexic\/\" title=\"Fat Activist, Plus-Size Model Tess Holliday Comes Out As Anorexic\">beauty standards<\/a> and the politics of fashion \u2064in the context of American presidential inaugurations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Trump promised to return America to normalcy and greatness. That the women in his orbit are doing so through their clothes makes the media furious.<\/p>\n<p>It was just four years ago that we suffered through the sartorial weirdness of the Biden inauguration. With no inaugural balls to attend because of Covid mania, the biggest fashion statements were made by Lady Gaga, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/11\/09\/lady-gaga-wore-bulletproof-dress-for-inauguration-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ensemble<\/a> looked like a Hunger Games version of those beehive-shaped Barbie cakes, and Ella Emhoff, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/28\/fashion\/ella-emhoff-model-img.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweed pilgrim look<\/a> and subsequent modeling contract were created in a lab to communicate to people that ugly is the new pretty.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s been vogue for a while to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">eschew traditional beauty standards<\/a>, whether that means putting the morbidly obese on magazine covers or writing headlines like this:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Fashion and the arts have long sought to be transgressive, but the institutional capture of the arts by sartorial Marxists has turned offending the senses into a, well, art form. Things that normies think are <em>weird <\/em>&mdash; like Ella Emhoff&rsquo;s attempt to turn armpit hair into a fashion accessory &mdash; are celebrated by the editors at fashion magazines precisely because they offend all of those <em>normal<\/em> people of small minds and small towns who voted for Trump. <\/p>\n<p>See also: A freak with chest hair in a skirt and 2-inch nails got invited to the Biden White House to be a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/benny-drama-gen-z-white-house-intern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gen Z intern<\/a>&rdquo; for a day, and landed a spot in Vogue for it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Monday, Melania Trump dared to show up looking not just <em>not <\/em>weird, but belligerently not so. With its intense lines and visor-like millinery, her no-nonsense costume would have fit well into the military-inspired trends of the 1940s. It reminded me of the impeccably dressed Nazi chick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2025\/01\/localimages\/Elsa_Schneider.jpg\/revision\/latest?cb=20210422112733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who<\/a> fought Indiana Jones for the Holy Grail &mdash; a comparison which The New York Times would probably hold against Melania personally if they noticed it.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s true that most inaugural outfits tend on the conservative side, if for no other reason than the frigid January temperatures provide an incentive to cover up. (This year, Jeff Bezos&rsquo; fianc&eacute;e Lauren S&aacute;nchez took advantage of the ceremony&rsquo;s indoor nature to unburden herself of that limitation.) Like Melania, the other women in the presidential party were dressed in muted monochrome and simple, flattering silhouettes. The Trump women and Mrs. Vance &mdash; whose coat The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/fashion\/2025\/01\/21\/trump-inauguration-fashion-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> as &ldquo;1960s-ish&rdquo; &mdash; all donned such classic looks that the Post declared they had put &ldquo;the fashion in old-fashioned.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times faulted Mrs. Trump for daring to look too regal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/style\/melania-trump-hat-inauguration-outfit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describing<\/a> her look as &ldquo;less elevated accessibility than British royal walkabout.&rdquo; The Post had a similar critique of Ivanka, saying she &ldquo;looked more like she was heading to a British royal&rsquo;s wedding in the 1990s than a 2025 celebration of democracy.&rdquo;&nbsp;How fascist and undemocratic of them!<\/p>\n<p>And then there were the Inaugural Ball gowns. The six women onstage &mdash; Melania, Ivanka, Lara, Tiffany, and Kai Trump, and Usha Vance &mdash; painted a patriotic color palette with one in red, one in blue, and the rest in varying shades of champagne and white. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Melania Trump and Usha Vance both looked breathtaking at the inaugural ball. It looks like the media may finally be appreciating the classy and classic styles of the ladies of the Republican Party. (Melanie&rsquo;s dress by Herv&eacute; Pierre and Usha&rsquo;s gown by Badgley Mischka.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1g9MJRinVN\">pic.twitter.com\/1g9MJRinVN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Deanna (@ARamblingRoyal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARamblingRoyal\/status\/1881625568082579881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lara Trump wore a red gown to the Inaugural Ball. I don&rsquo;t know the designer but I absolutely love it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rUdSA8n4NN\">pic.twitter.com\/rUdSA8n4NN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sarah Stook (@sarah_stook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarah_stook\/status\/1881699132185993221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ivanka&rsquo;s Givenchy reproduction of Audrey Hepburn&rsquo;s famous gown in <em>Sabrina<\/em> was a literal throwback, but all the gowns, as the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/21\/style\/trump-inaugural-ball-fashion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">observed<\/a>, &ldquo;called to mind eras gone by&rdquo; and nodded to the American &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-recruits-gibson-stallone-and-voight-to-make-hollywood-great-again-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump recruits Gibson, Stallone, and Voight to make Hollywood great again - Washington Examiner\">golden age&#038;rdquo<\/a>; that Trump heralded in his speech earlier the same day.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ivanka Trump at the Inaugural Ball last night in a Givenchy gown that was a recreation of one worn by Audrey Hepburn &#129293;&#128420; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gW8DOKAfMj\">pic.twitter.com\/gW8DOKAfMj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evie Magazine (@Evie_Magazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Evie_Magazine\/status\/1881743611265486892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lest it come across as praise to describe the parade of glamour as &ldquo;a sartorial tour through the iconography of celluloid Americana,&rdquo; the Times ended on this ominous note:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A little taste of the &hellip; well, taste that will define the next four years. So bedazzled that for the moment, no one talked about the festering divides and discontent that brought the first Gilded Age to an end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/ivanka-trumps-inaugural-ball-gown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained<\/a> that Ivanka&rsquo;s &ldquo;nod to upbeat Hollywood glamour, on [a] stage that holds so much weight for Americans, felt misguided.&rdquo; How dare we have any fun or optimism around here, with democracy dying and all!<\/p>\n<p>The Post&rsquo;s fashion critic, who called Monday&rsquo;s looks &ldquo;largely devoid of glamour&rdquo; and &ldquo;stodgy,&rdquo; compared the aesthetics of Trump&rsquo;s second inauguration to those of Reagan&rsquo;s second, which was also held indoors. Evidently forgetting that Reagan&rsquo;s winning message that year was &ldquo;Morning in America,&rdquo; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/fashion\/2025\/01\/21\/trump-inauguration-fashion-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> these two lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;The golden age of America begins right now,&rdquo; Trump said in his inaugural speech.<\/p>\n<p>Yet on the stages at inauguration events and on the streets of Washington, things looked less like a new future and a lot like the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly she has never met someone who grew up in the 80s, because they will all tell you it <em>was<\/em> America&rsquo;s golden age. After more than eight years of hearing Trump&rsquo;s famous slogan, these people are still missing what everyone else loves about it. The slogan&rsquo;s fourth word exists because the people who say it believe America has <em>already<\/em> produced greatness, and they want to protect it from those who would give, explain, or deny it away. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Style, for this second administration, is looking back,&rdquo; she complained.<\/p>\n<p>On that point, she&rsquo;s kind of right. The coats, gowns, and hats on parade Monday brought back a refreshing dose of old-fashioned glamour and Americana. It&rsquo;s a shame we can&rsquo;t agree that&rsquo;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump vowed to restore America&#8217;s greatness, angering media with his women&#8217;s fashion choices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2393534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/melania.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[48979,48980,36497,3634,15469],"class_list":["post-2393532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-aesthetic","tag-fashion-trends","tag-media-critique","tag-trump","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/melania.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393536,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393532\/revisions\/2393536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}