Kellyanne Conway Throws Shade at Women Who Wear Black Stretch Pants
Kellyanne Conway’s color-block red, white, and blue Gucci coat was one of the standout looks at President Trump’s inauguration. And the piece, created by an Italian fashion house from a design “inspired by the city of London,” prompted a deluge of memes and clever quips from the Twitterati and other assorted jokers on social media.
But Conway has a few words for the folks who weren’t feeling her ’fit. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Trump adviser offered her thoughts on the reaction, saying she’s “sorry to offend the black-stretch-pants women of America with a little color.”
Leggings certainly spark a strong negative reaction in plenty of folks, so it comes as little surprise that Conway would mention them in an attempt to throw back the shade. In October 2015, Fox & Friends aired a segment in which a panel of fathers weighed in on the appropriateness of leggings, particularly whether they were OK for their daughters to wear to school. “If it’s not worn in the monastery, it’s not worn out on the street,” Fox News legal analyst Arthur Aidala said emphatically.
Some people see leggings-bashing as more than just an issue of sartorial preference. The strong reaction some folks — regardless of political affiliation — may have about day-to-day leggings may indicate a deeper issue.
“The case against leggings is, yet again, an issue of body shaming — and on a greater scale, female shaming,” Yahoo Style noted in November 2015. “No one’s ever complained about seeing Gigi Hadid walking around SoHo in black spandex, or posted a rant on YouTube about Gisele Bündchen strutting around Boston in her Lululemon. But when it comes to so-called ‘normal,’ noncelebrity females? Our clothing choices are apparently ripe for ridicule.”
Granted, Conway only clapped back after getting dragged for her outfit on social media, attempting to defend herself by going for the clothing item hated by so many. Still, it’s unclear whether Conway’s diss stems from the fact that she thinks stretch pants are unseemly, boring, or just plain ugly.
In December, writer Kerry Folan wrote about her hatred for yoga pants as regular pants in the Washington Post, calling them an “assault on manners,” though she admitted to their appeal. “I confess, I’m just as guilty of wearing yoga pants as anyone else. There have been plenty of occasions since I moved back to the suburbs that I’ve thrown on a pair of black leggings and gone about my day. … I realized that my gripe with yoga pants goes beyond bad manners. Like many pet peeves, this one is rooted in a private fear: I’m afraid of getting too comfortable.”
Still, something tells us that the “black-stretch-pants” contingent was less offended by the color in Conway’s ensemble and more offended by the look altogether.
Related: Burning Question: Who’s Paying for Melania Trump’s Wardrobe as First Lady?
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