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The importance of taking an outfit from day to night is something that generations of American women had drilled into our brains by women’s-magazine editorials, but somehow, none of them ever mentioned how to dress for 48 consecutive hours of press appearances during the home stretch of your campaign for president. (Strange.) That’s the conundrum that Vice President and 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is facing this week, as she goes straight from a sweatsuit-clad Sunday guest spot on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast to a Monday appearance on 60 Minutes to a Late Show With Stephen Colbert interview on Tuesday. (She somehow fit in a Howard Stern appearance, too.)
In the ever-changing media landscape, dress codes are changing, too. Many people were surely horrified to see Cooper interviewing Harris in—gasp!—a hoodie. But the Vice President played ball with the podcaster, whose sartorial M.O. encourages a cozy intimacy—be it for the sake of the guest or the audience. Harris, of course, did not wear an actual sweatsuit, but a double-zip navy jacket that resembled an elevated track jacket. With its hardware-heavy detailing, Harris’s more low-key look was in tune with Cooper’s audience—dubbed the “Daddy Gangâ€â€”without sacrificing the dignity of her office. (She did pair the jacket with her signature straight-legged trousers and pointy-toe pumps, after all.) Cooper, for her part, dressed up for the occasion, pairing her lavender hoodie with black pants and pointy-toe boots.
But for her appearance on 60 Minutes, Harris stuck to a more traditional look. The Vice President opted for her uniform of a tailored suit and a pussybow blouse. Everything Harris wears is well thought out. The shoulder-padded jacket creates a hardness, which is balanced with the blouse. Even the suit’s eggplant color is thoughtful: purple signals bipartisanship, and with a neck-and-neck election just weeks away, Harris needs to appeal to centrists and moderate Republicans as much as possible.
It's anyone's guess what Harris will wear for her Late Show appearance on Tuesday, but when she first appeared on Colbert's show in 2018, she played it relatively straight in a navy suit, a black top, and a deeply demure string of pearls; then again Harris's style has definitely seen an evolution since she hit the campaign trail in earnest this summer, so for all we know, maybe she'll show up toting a jean bag or some small (but not tiny!) sunglasses. Fashion obsessives vote too, after all!
