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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disliked Hillary for so many reasons, but her sticking to the black pantsuit with different blouses gets an A+ from me. Pelosi is older, and they have different expectations of workwear.  She probably also buys and affords the every expensive pantyhose that don't run as much. If you don't mind putting on the pantyhose, it's a very simple thing -- two items.

At a certain point in your life you figure out what works for you and you just go buy it in every color. [/quote]

Pelosi (80) isn’t that much older than Clinton (72).[/quote]
Generationally and culturally, they’re miles apart. Pelosi had five kids by the time she was thirty and spent twenty years as a housewife. She has said she would have loved to go to law school and have a career as an attorney (and even took the LSAT) but that was not an opportunity afforded to most women like her at the time. Eight years later, Hillary did have that opportunity. The cultural space between silent gen women and boomer women is huge and can be seen in many manifestations (style expectations is one).[/quote]

Plus one. Pelosi is part of the same generation as Madeleine Albright, another women who got married and raised kids and followed her husband after college and then went back to school and entered politics later. [/quote]

Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein both also got married during/right after college and had kids. That was the expectation back then.

The exception is Elizabeth Dole in that generation. But she has said many times in interviews how incredibly rare it was for a woman to not get married then out of Duke  and pursue law school at Harvard and stay unmarried until she was older and established and never had kids. She was a true exception and from everything I’ve read there was TONS of pressure on her to do otherwise. [/quote]

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