Fashioning Suffrage featuring Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Clothing and appearance became much more than a mere fashion statement during the suffrage movement. By employing mainstream fashion styles and suffrage colors to advance their politics, suffragists transformed not only their image, but also the popular understandings of political campaigning. Einav’s talk presents fashion as a useful tool in political campaigns and our current political culture by examining the visual and spectacular means through which suffragists brought the issue of women’s rights to the forefront. Explore the multiple ways fashion enabled suffragists to shape political discourse during the campaign and how this legacy continues to affect and inspire women’s political campaigning and participation to this day.
Age: 10+
Registration deadline: at the door