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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jill's dress was beautiful although she could have used better foundational garments. Huge miss on Kamala's part to not wear a sari or lehenga. I'm so disappointed.

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Kamala Harris has never worn Indian clothes in public so why should she start now? Her niece Meena dresses traditionally sometimes but I don’t know if she was invited.[/quote]

+1, I think going that route could wind up looking tone deaf, and like an effort to use the state visit to play up her own racial background -- it could be viewed as attention grabbing in an inappropriate way.

Also, I don't know how the etiquette for these events work, but it seems that usually with state visits, the visitors often make an effort to embrace the fashions of the country they are visiting, but less so going in the opposite direction. So I might expect Jill Biden or Kamala to wear a sari or lehenga if visiting India, but not necessarily when hosting another country.

A similar approach with food. They didn't just serve a bunch of traditional Indian food at the dinner -- that wouldn't make sense and would come off as weird (why would the Indian delegation travel to Washington to eat Indian food?). Instead, they served traditional American food but incorporated some Indian ingredients and elements to send a message of sharing and unity. I think the clothing choices were similar -- both Biden and Harris wore western designs to the dinner, but for instance Jill opted for som Indian-inspired bangles when they greeted Modi the day before, and Kamala's necklace to the state dinner was ornate and evoked some Indian influence. Nothing overt, but meant to be appropriate to the occasion.[/quote]

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