Kamala Harris pays tribute to the suffragette movement with iconic white pantsuit

Vice president-elect Kamala Harris wore a white pantsuit with a white pussy-bow blouse when she and president-elect Joe Biden spoke on Saturday night.

As soon as she took to the stage in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night, her dress spoke the voice of the millions of women who fought for their rights over the years. The dress wasn’t about fashion, it was about politics, past and future.

The dress new vice-president-elect chose to wear on the night where she spoke to the people of the country, was to honor the women’s rights movement from the history.

The National Woman’s Party, an American political organization founded in the early 1900s, adopted white as one of its colors and called it the "emblem of purity."

The all-white ensemble — designed by Wes Gordon, the Creative Director of the immigrant-founded American label, Carolina Herrera — paid tribute to the suffragette movement while tying Harris’s election to the continued fight for women’s rights.

Of the fact Kamala, 56, is so many firsts: first woman to be vice president, first woman of color to be vice president, first woman of South Asian descent, first daughter of immigrants. She is the representation of so many promises finally fulfilled.

But while the vice president-elect's acceptance speech will surely, and rightly, be remembered for the words of inspiration offered to women in America and around the world, the commentary on her wardrobe was not as trivial as it might seem. Because, rather than distracting from her words, the white pantsuit and pussy bow blouse served to reinforce her message of unity and emancipation.

On a night that Harris credited to the women before her -- "I stand on their shoulders," she said of those who fought for voting rights at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the "new generation" that had exercised those rights last week -- she also channeled their symbolism.

She continued, "Tonight, I reflect on their struggle, their determination, and the strength of their vision—to see what can be unburdened by what has been—I stand on their shoulders."