New president’s wife chose to wear a dark, high-necked coat and a boater hat to celebrate her husband’s second inauguration
New US president Donald Trump kisses first lady Melania Trump after his inauguration on Monday. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool/Getty Imageswas in attendance, but she chose to make herself almost invisible. Her dark boater hat was worn so low that it threw her entire face into shadow, and made eye contact with cameras or guests impossible.
Melania has proved herself a disruptor. The savagery of her “I REALLY DON’T CARE. DO U?” jacket, worn on a visit to a child migrant detention centre in 2018, was a message directly aimed, she later said, at the “left-wing media”. Jill Biden in Ralph Lauren with then second gentleman Doug Emhoff at Monday's inauguration. Photograph: Saul Loeb/Pool/Getty Images
There was a nod to hats worn by a young Princess Diana in Melania’s boater, which was made by New York milliner Eric Javits. Diana wore a similar style, in white with a contrast black band, during a 1983 tour of New Zealand – although by tipping the brim backward and accessorising with a wide smile, she gave it a cheerier tone.
Donald Trump and Melania Trump walk out of stage at the end of the inaugural parade on Monday. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP via GettyIf Melania seemed less than keen to pick up the traditional first lady fashion baton, Ivanka Trump was on hand. Adept at the political calculus of wardrobe choices, Ivanka, the incoming president’s eldest daughter, was note-perfect in a forest green skirt suit, Nancy Reagan-adjacent in its classic silhouette and neatly draped neckline.
Both she and Ivanka pinned their tumbling mermaid waves neatly out of sight. It was left to the wife of the incoming vice-president, Usha Vance, all smiles in bubblegum pink and prominent floral earrings, to channel the straight-up femininity of a populist princess.
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