From Kamala’s kicks to Tim’s baseball caps: Here’s a breakdown of candidates’ fashion this election

With Election Day approaching, candidates are courting voters with everything they’ve got: targeted ads, texts, taunts, and stump speeches. As a fashion historian, I think an overlooked aspect of electioneering is clothing, which is a silent, powerful way for candidates to tell the American public who they are. It’s an act as old as power itself. “Clothes, from the King’s mantle downwards, are emblematic,” wrote Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus, a...