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Why Do MAGA Women Dress Like That? - Ms.
No judgment, but the women featured in Evie Magazine—a “conservative Cosmo” for women 18-34—are more likely than not to show off their breasts. In a nod to the tradwife fashion trend, milkmaid dresses with low décolletage are featured on young, voluptuous white women. An article making the case against body positivity and fat acceptance, “The Return of Skinny,” is accompanied by a photo of a busty white woman on a beach wearing a thong bikini. A photo spread of Eva Vlaardingerbroek showcases the Dutch right-wing activist wearing a gold cross necklace—along with her breasts falling out of a low-cut gingham dress.
There’s nothing wrong with wearing revealing clothes, and no one should be slut-shamed for doing so. Yet it’s curious that Evie’s content strategy favors Playboy-esque lingerie over Handmaid’s Tale dresses. After all, this is a publication whose sex columnist presumes everyone seeking advice is married and heterosexual; advises pregnant teenagers that their only option is adoption, not “panic-driven abortion”; steers readers away from birth control and toward rhythm-method fertility tracking apps; and informs readers that “men typically prefer virgins.”
It’s not just at Evie. The MAGA movement has introduced legislation that would allow authorities to charge patients who obtain an abortion with homicide, is redefining some forms of birth control as abortion and is calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the right to same-sex marriage.
Yet many women who support these efforts to deny sexual freedoms proudly wear revealing and sexy outfits—from Kimberly Guilfoyle’s low-cut, body-hugging red dress at the 2020 Republican National Convention, to Steve Bannon podcast co-host Natalie Winters, known for wearing provocative outfits to Trump’s White House briefings, to the Trump supporters featured in New York magazine in silky slip dresses and lace bustiers.
There’s nothing wrong with wearing revealing clothes, and no one should be slut-shamed for doing so. Yet it’s curious that Evie’s content strategy favors Playboy-esque lingerie over Handmaid’s Tale dresses. After all, this is a publication whose sex columnist presumes everyone seeking advice is married and heterosexual; advises pregnant teenagers that their only option is adoption, not “panic-driven abortion”; steers readers away from birth control and toward rhythm-method fertility tracking apps; and informs readers that “men typically prefer virgins.”
It’s not just at Evie. The MAGA movement has introduced legislation that would allow authorities to charge patients who obtain an abortion with homicide, is redefining some forms of birth control as abortion and is calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the right to same-sex marriage.
Yet many women who support these efforts to deny sexual freedoms proudly wear revealing and sexy outfits—from Kimberly Guilfoyle’s low-cut, body-hugging red dress at the 2020 Republican National Convention, to Steve Bannon podcast co-host Natalie Winters, known for wearing provocative outfits to Trump’s White House briefings, to the Trump supporters featured in New York magazine in silky slip dresses and lace bustiers.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/05/13/maga-republican-women-dress-clothes-tradwife-sexy-slut-shame-media-representation-dress-code/
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