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Hillary Clinton was the first woman to wear trousers in an official U.S. First Lady portrait; [44] this portrait was painted by Simmie Knox and unveiled in 2004.
First first lady to wear trousers in an official first lady portrait. [70] First first lady with an office in the West Wing. [71] First first lady to win a Grammy Award. [72] First first lady to be subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury. [73] First first lady to run for and to win elected office (for senator from New York in 2000). [74]
In 1989, California state senator Rebecca Morgan became the first woman to wear trousers in a US state senate. [48] Hillary Clinton was the first woman to wear trousers in an official American First Lady portrait. [49] Women were not allowed to wear trousers on the US Senate floor until 1993.
Following her father's death in 1874, Elizabeth Smith Miller, along with author Octavius Brooks Frothingham, worked on a biography of his life.When Frothingham went so far as to allege that Smith had prior knowledge of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Elizabeth ordered the publisher to recall the tomes, break their bindings, and remove the information.
One of the first women to wear trousers, cut her hair short, and reject the corset was Coco Chanel. Probably the most influential woman in fashion of the 20th century, Chanel did much to further the emancipation and freedom of women's fashion.
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
'But I was the first, and I shouldn't be a woman if I wasn't pleased to be the first to start a fashion.' [2] Women wearing trousers in the 1940s was seen as controversial, although they did so in more roles, for practical reasons, as the war went on. [2] Picture Post carried the story and joked 'it is not a question so much, 'should women wear ...
The first lady opted for a more somber look compared to her previous presidential inauguration in 2017, where she wore a powder blue coat by Ralph Lauren. This year, the Slovenian former model ...