Suffragists wore white 96 years ago. Now Clinton voters are doing the same.
WASHINGTON — It’s been a dark election season in many respects, but around the country, women are ending it by wearing white.
They’re donning white blouses, pulling white pantsuits from closets or shopping for new ones, dressing babies in white Onesies. Then they are heading to the polls to cast their vote to elect the person they hope will be the country’s first female president.
The color white references the long fight women waged to gain the right to vote, an official color of their movement, often worn by suffragists in protests in the early 1900s.
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