Is a floral dress a political statement?

Is a floral dress a political statement?

When the conservative youth group Turning Point USA was planning its recent Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas, organizers sent out a Pinterest mood board of suggested looks.

Amid a few images of sleeveless vests, skirt suits and pleated skirts were a number of floral dresses: some with puffed princess sleeves, others with a more casual, backyard-barnyard fit and a few that looked like vintage nightgowns.

The attendees either took note of the mood board or didn’t need it: reporting from the summit, Washington Post reporter Kara Voght described the attendees’ looks as “a smear of pastels and florals — ruffles on their dresses, cowboy boots on their feet, bows on their curls. The aesthetic could be summed up as Laura Ingalls Wilder-core, as if the little house on the prairie had been down the street from a Sephora.”

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