Ah, there was an intention to wear purple........

[a kennedy]

There's a standout color at the inaugural events this week: purple.

Kamala Harris donned the color on Inauguration Day as she became vice president, and Jill Biden, the incoming first lady, wore it for Tuesday night's vigil at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool for Americans who have died of COVID-19.

The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former first lady Hillary Clinton also wore the color Wednesday. But why?

Onlookers are pointing to the color – a combination of red and blue – as a symbol of unity, a notion Clinton endorsed in comments to reporters in the Capitol following the swearing-in.

"I did wear purple with a purpose because I knew the theme that President Biden was striking was unity. I thought as you combine red and blue, the way that we are divided politically in our country, you get purple," Clinton said. "I wanted just to send a bit of a symbolic message that we need to come together."

Jonathan Cohen, the designer behind Biden's Tuesday night ensemble, shared a message from user @georgeanaux on his Instagram Story:

"Red + Blue = Purple," the message wrote. "This moment is about unity. Not red vs. blue, but all of us coming together as a Nation."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/fashion/2021/01/20/inauguration-why-kamala-harris-jill-biden-wearing-purple/4229427001/

[aidbo]

1. Isra Hirsi, who is wise beyond her years speaks for me.

Link to tweet

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That's a cool story!

Plus, the color is beautiful! All the folks wearing it looked fantastic.

[Staph]

3. Purple was also one of the colors of the suffragist movement.

Purple, green and white in England, purple, white and gold in the US.

[wackadoo wabbit]

9. That's the first thing that occurred to me, too

Actually, it was Green, Violet, and White, which stood for Give Votes to Women.

I've never heard of suffragettes using gold in the U.S., but I definitely have heard of them using green. Either way, the initials were GVW, Give Votes to Women.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. A nice story

but now that we’ve asked nicely, I want to see repugs reciprocate or we commence hardball.

[Initech]

5. Start wearing purple!

[Leith]

6. I noticed that!

Wasn't sure if that was a coincidence or what.

Both First Lady Dr. Biden and Speaker of the House Pelosi were wearing light turquoise/teal, too. But that probably didn't have any special meaning.

[StarfishSaver]

7. The shade of purple the VP wore was one of her campaign colors - a tribute to Shirley Chisholm

[a kennedy]

8. I'm sorry for posting this here....sports related. I can't wear purple as it's the color of

the MN VIKINGS my arch enemies......I am a Green Bay Packer fan and it would be blasphemy for me to wear purple. 😂 🤣 😂 but I will be wearing my pearls to show support for our new VP.

[wishstar]

10. It's also a respectful color of mourning appropriate after the year of Covid

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. It's also the color of ROYALTY.

Just sayin'.

Not that we should ever have kings and queens in this country, but she's royal to me!


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple