title: LEFTY MEDIA PULLS WOMAN CARD: Why Hillary Chose To Wear White To Debate Trump
text: Without saying any words, Hillary Clinton sent a message to voters the moment she walked onto the stage at Wednesday night s presidential debate in Las Vegas.Or rather the Democratic presidential candidate s white Ralph Lauren pantsuit sent the message.Clinton has worn Ralph Lauren s designs often since kicking off her campaign. For example, she wore a cobalt blue Ralph Lauren suit for the campaign s opening rally last year in New York City.But it s her choice of color   not designer   that s significant. The choice of a white suit for Wednesday s debate harkened back to the not-so-distant past, when suffragettes wore white to promote their struggle to gain the right to vote,  Booth Moore, senior fashion editor for The Hollywood Reporter and Pret-a-Reporter, told ABC News moments after Clinton took to the debate stage at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Adds Moore,  It also serves as a reminder to voters, during a time when Trump has been under fire for lewd comments and accused by 10 women of inappropriate sexual behavior, that she is the women s candidate. There s even a connection between Clinton wearing white and being a presidential candidate.Israel Waismel-Manor, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa s School of Political Science, tells ABC News,  Candidate  comes from the Latin word  candidatus,  which means  white-robed. It signifies you are clean, have nothing to hide, pure. Trump is the opposite. Read more: ABC 