Fashion and Politics | Why It Matters

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Fashion and Politics | Why It Matters
Learn how fashion can reveal and reflect the politics of an era in this episode of Why It Matters, the history video series where the past is used to explain the present. Why It Matters host Malick Mercier interviews historian Dr. Victoria Pass about the recent wearing of white by women in U.S. politics and the different ways clothing has been used by both men and women to signal politics throughout U.S. history.