Jennifer Lopez made a statement by wearing head-to-toe white during her inauguration performance
- While performing at the 2021 inauguration ceremony, artist Jennifer Lopez wore a suffragette white Chanel pantsuit.
- Women have historically worn all-white outfits in honor of the women's suffrage movement.
- Vice President Kamala Harris also wore all-white when giving her victory speech in November.
Jennifer Lopez rocked all white while performing at President Joe Biden's Inauguration.
As Lopez sang a rendition of "This Land is Your Land" that transitioned into "Let's Get Loud," the singer wore a suffragette white pantsuit by Chanel, according to Elite Daily, and her hair was slicked back into a ponytail.
She paired her all-white clothes with her patent JLo bling, as well as pearls, which likely honors Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Lopez wore head-to-toe white, likely in honor of the women's suffrage movement
Women have been wearing white in their fight for equal rights for the last century, according to the National Park Service (NPS).
In the early 20th century, women in the US were advocating for their right to vote. Three colors were important to these women - purple represented loyalty, gold nodded to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Kansas campaigns, and white represented purity and virtue, CR Fashion Book reports.
Women fighting for voting rights, or suffragettes, wore all-white outfits to marches, and wearing the color became an inclusive way for others to join the movement, rather than having a proper uniform, according to the NPS. In a time when photos were printed in black and white, the white outfits made women in the movement pop in newspapers.
Since then, female politicians have worn monochromatic white outfits as a nod to suffragettes, perhaps most notably at Donald Trump's State of the Union addresses, as Insider previously reported.
More recently, Harris wore an all-white suit for her victory speech, Insider previously reported.
JLo's pearls may have been inspired by Harris' signature pearl earrings
Lopez's Inauguration outfit was similar, but with a few sparkling touches - her shirt was more ruffled and her pants were covered in sequins. Her jacket was long, elegant, and had several silver buttons.
Lopez also wore pearl bracelets to the event, InStyle reported.
Women across the US wear pearls in support of Harris, who has worn her signature pearl earrings during formative moments in her life and America's, The New York Times reported: She wore them when she graduated Howard University, was sworn into Congress, questioned Brett Kavanaugh, debated Vice President Mike Pence, and received the coronavirus vaccine.
Most recently, Harris wore the earrings on Inauguration Day.
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