Ivanka Trump’s 12 Most Questionable Fashion Choices  (5 of 7)

7. Fashion Faux Pas During a Tax Cut Celebration

In June 2018, Ivanka posted a photo on social media at a White House event celebrating the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The image showed her standing alongside LaSonya Hill, a working mother who was supposedly benefitting from the new tax cuts. However, Ivanka’s outfit—an expensive $2,110 Emilia Wickstead dress paired with a Chanel handbag and stilettos—seemed out of place in a setting meant to highlight the working-class Americans the tax cuts were allegedly designed to benefit.

Ivanka’s outfit was a stark reminder of the dissonance between the image she projected as a proponent of tax reform and the extravagant lifestyle that was on full display. As critics pointed out, it was hard to reconcile her lavish wardrobe with the very policies she claimed to be championing for working families.

8. Headscarves, Cultural Sensitivity, and Political Irony

In 2017, Ivanka Trump, along with her husband, father, and stepmother Melania, visited Saudi Arabia as part of a diplomatic trip. While both women wore outfits that adhered to the dress code in the kingdom, they opted not to wear headscarves, which raised some eyebrows. The situation was made more complicated by the fact that just two years earlier, Donald Trump had publicly criticized former First Lady Michelle Obama for doing the same thing during her visit to Saudi Arabia in 2015.

Despite the general expectation that female visitors in Saudi Arabia wear headscarves, neither Melania nor Ivanka were required to, as the country’s laws at the time only applied to tourists. However, given the Trump family’s previous statements on the subject, the optics of their attire became a point of contention, with many questioning the inconsistency between their past criticisms and their current choices.