SEE, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO WEAR A $12,000 ARMANI JACKET WHILE SAYING YOU’RE FOR THE WORKING MAN: Ivanka Trump wore a $138 dress at RNC — and you can buy it.
OP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, gave a speech Thursday night to talk up her father before he accepted the party’s nomination.
Unlike so many politicians and their families, who wear outrageously expensive clothes when they give speeches, Ivanka wore a simple pink sheath dress that cost $138. It’s from her own fashion line, and after her speech she tweeted out a link for people to purchase the dress.
I get the obvious angle of Ivanka using her speech as a way to enrich herself. On some level I find it to be a cheap stunt, but on another level I’m just fine with this.
I find it difficult to find nice work clothes, and always end up seeing things that female politicians wear and wondering where they purchased their clothes. This made it easy to see a simple but nice dress and know where to buy it.
Even better, it only costs $138. She’s the daughter of a billionaire, married to a billionaire and successful in her own right. She could have worn a dress that cost thousands of dollars, but she wore something that cost a little over a hundred. Yes, she did it to sell that dress, but she still could have tried to sell a more expensive dress.
This is unlike, say, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who wore a $12,000 Armani jacket while giving a speech about inequality. Her supporters can claim she did so to highlight inequality all they want, but the optics don’t work in her favor.
They seldom do, which is why she needs to have the press under firm control.