Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie's recent adoption of a three-piece suit and tie has become a talking point, symbolizing her commitment to being taken seriously in the male-dominated world of politics. McKenzie, known for her practical style, explains that the choice is both playful and a deliberate challenge to traditional expectations of women in power.
When Bridget McKenzie rose to deliver a speech to the Nationals ’ federal council on Saturday, she wasn’t only making a statement with her words.
Unlike former prime minister Paul Keating’s love of tailored suits from luxury Italian label Zegna, McKenzie’s suit, made by the affordable Melbourne brand Portmans, was bought from a factory outlet in Canberra . Some days she will pair it with a sneaker, on others a high heel. Her ties are usually borrowed from male Nationals colleagues.
of touring remote Aboriginal communities while “dripping with Gucci”, highlighting the risks female politicians take by wearing anything vaguely interesting. “There’s a lot of pressure to conform, and I don’t feel it’s necessary to conform to others’ view of what a conservative woman should say, do or wear,” says McKenzie, the Nationals’ first female Victorian senator and first female Senate leader.When McKenzie entered the Senate in 2011, she says there were such limited clothing options for female parliamentarians that they would often text each other to make sure they didn’t show up the next day in a near-identical outfit.
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