{"id":41729,"date":"2019-01-24T23:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41729"},"modified":"2022-01-19T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:04:00","slug":"what-another-political-fashion-slay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/what-another-political-fashion-slay\/","title":{"rendered":"What?! Another Political Fashion Slay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/year-in-review-2018s-top-fashion-slays-worst-nays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In December<\/a>, I was surprised to see two fashion slays from the traditionally dowdy political world: Michelle Obama in thigh-high Balenciaga boots and Nancy Pelosi wearing sunglasses and a MaxMara coat. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to see similar fierceness ever, let alone the very next month. But here&#8217;s groundbreaking Kyrsten Sinema &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/kyrsten-sinema-first-openly-bisexual-person-senate_us_5c2e5094e4b08aaf7a97504f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona&#8217;s first female senator and the first openly bisexual senator<\/a> &#8212; making her own thigh-high statement today.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyrstensinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kyrstensinema<\/a> walks through the Ohio Clock Corridor, shortly before the Senate votes to reopen the government. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/shutdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#shutdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/govermentshutdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#govermentshutdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/senate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#senate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WlemTpcoOw\">pic.twitter.com\/WlemTpcoOw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Graeme Jennings (@Graeme_rj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Graeme_rj\/status\/1088556127879684096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/kyrsten-sinema-first-openly-bisexual-person-senate_us_5c2e5094e4b08aaf7a97504f?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanks to those boots, today&#8217;s ensemble blows away the outfit she wore for her swearing-in<\/a>, though people were pretty excited about that one too. (And the fact that homophobic, religious hypocrite Mike Pence had to swear her in using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sen-kyrsten-sinema-takes-oath-of-office-on-an-law-book-instead-of-the-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a copy of the Constitution rather than the Bible<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What is going on here? Am I going to have to start giving out Best Dressed\/Wear What You Want awards to politicians? Who would have guessed!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED JANUARY 19, 2022, TO ADD: DAMN! I certainly didn&#8217;t predict that Sinema would turn out to be no better than an old-school white Republican man like Mike Pence, expressing more concern for the arcane, racist tradition of the filibuster than the well-being of her constituents, let alone democracy in general. Fuck her and the opportunistic boots she walked in with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, I was surprised to see two fashion slays from the traditionally dowdy political world: Michelle Obama in thigh-high Balenciaga boots and Nancy Pelosi wearing sunglasses and a MaxMara coat. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to see similar fierceness ever, let alone the very next month. But here&#8217;s groundbreaking Kyrsten Sinema &#8212; Arizona&#8217;s first female senator&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/what-another-political-fashion-slay\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,49,143],"tags":[1860],"class_list":["post-41729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-in-the-news","category-politics","tag-kyrsten-sinema","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46803,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41729\/revisions\/46803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}