Pantsuits Hillary Clinton's political legacy?

So what if the candidate lost, the pantsuit can still be a winner. In the past month, what started as a private Hillary Clinton fan club on Facebook called Pantsuit Nation rapidly spread into the real world and ended up as a US election day sartorial solidarity initiative. That even Beyoncé turned up for the last pre-election Clinton rally in a black-and-white polka-dotted pantsuit shows that the Democratic nominee had become an unexpected fashion maven — something she never achieved as the US First Lady. While Clinton had called her campaign staff 'The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pantsuits' (a play on The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants) at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, it obviously took a serious bid for the presidency to turn the pantsuit into a symbol of feminist political assertion.

The pantsuit has, of course, become the default attire for prominent women leaders in the west — as much as the kurta and bundi are the Indian male politico's stock-in-trade.

But they have not really penetrated the fashion world's consciousness although Yves Saint Laurent gave pantsuits a chic edge with 'Le Smoking' trouser-jacket ensembles. If pantsuits become the badge of feminist protest during and after the Trump presidency, this could be Clinton's most visible political legacy.