Jill Biden offers a different model for first lady, our fashion critic writes.
The spouse of a political candidate often plays a crucial role in highlighting aspects of a candidate’s life that resonate with voters on a personal level.
Dr. Jill Biden reinforced her husband’s folksiness and relatability, not only in the substance of her remarks, but through her fashion choices, according to The Times’s chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman.
Dr. Biden, she wrote, “will not use fashion as a shield against the world. She will not gird herself in glamour, or arm herself with gilded European brand names. She is certainly not a trophy sitting on a shelf.”
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