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Jill Biden, master of recycling: change comes through clothes
Since the election campaign it was clear how Jill Biden was a woman sure of herself and her ideas. In particular, the distinction between her and Melania Trump was clear: two very different ways of showing oneself in public and communicating, with verbal and above all with non-verbal language.
Now that Joe Biden’s wife is in the White House, things aren’t too different. The First Lady, in fact, has kept her style and – indeed – has exploited her position for send messages clear to the whole world, of the signs of rupture with respect to the couple that preceded it.
If Melania, in fact, was a real model whose clothes gave the idea of how much she was a step above the rest of the world, Jill aims to give the opposite feeling. His clothes are far from unattainable (at least in appearance) and his way of doing always relaxed and informal.
Not only that: it is through her looks that Jill sends the strongest signs of change. As happened in the last few days when, on the occasion of Joe Biden’s speech to Congress, the First Lady showed off a sheath dress that many recognized.
It is in fact the same dress worn on the occasion of the Inauguration Concert last January; to distinguish them only the color, the first navy blue, the second white. Not a random choice: both situations were particularly important and significant for the nation and Flotus knew that the eyes of the world would be on her husband and on her. So she decided to re-propose the now iconic sheath dress, whose embroidered flowers each represent a state of the United States, of which hers, Delaware, is positioned right at the heart.
A dress made by the designer Gabriela Hearst, designer of Uruguayan origins and champion of sustainable fashion, who told how the look is the result of the recovery of waste fabrics assembled entirely in New York. In what could appear as “a simple dress” there is therefore a very strong message of welcome, unity and attention to environmental issues. In short, the summary of the issues that are most dear to her and her husband, who has focused the entire electoral campaign on these same topics.
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