Washington Publish vogue reporter Ashley Fetters Maloy naturally pleases the paper’s liberal readership by injecting liberal politics into the tales about garments. The newest was about Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk, who is seemingly dressing too glamorously as she takes over her assassinated husband’s job of working Turning Factors USA. The headline:
Erika Kirk is strolling a advantageous line in a glittering pantsuit
Her current outfits are making a press release: Take her significantly, however don’t take her for a profession lady.
The Robin Givhan vitality is there — grade the style on which political aspect they’re taking. Maloy began with a chat Erika gave on the Younger Girls’s Management Convention in Texas:
Feminists need you on antidepressants, she warned; they need you to really feel anxious about your profession. Aiding Kirk in hammering residence this femininity-over-feminism theme: her pink-and-white minidress, which featured a large-format floral print and rhinestones and a pussy bow and puffy lantern sleeves and a shoulder ruffle and a scalloped hem. A gown that, in different phrases, couldn’t have been extra completely Twenty first-century girly-chic if it tried.
Maloy thinks it is extra frequent for political girls to decorate in a bland pantsuit like Hillary or Kamala. However Erika Kirk is not working for workplace. She’s main a youth motion. Maloy’s additionally hinting at hypocrisy — as she clothes to tell apart herself from the feminists, the widow is leaving her infants behind like a feminist.
Column: Erika Kirk, a mom to 2 toddlers, continues to tackle public-facing management duties whereas selling conventional concepts about prioritizing marriage and motherhood.
Right here’s how her garments are trying to stroll the identical line: https://t.co/v2ToX0lwor pic.twitter.com/hPX0R1ndhd
— The Washington Publish (@washingtonpost) January 10, 2026
As Kirk’s face has appeared on increasingly screens — on CBS, on Fox, on podcasts and panels — two frequent refrains have emerged amongst observers: Whilst you’re on this publicity tour, who’s parenting your youngsters? and Why is that swimsuit so sparkly?
They’re not unrelated, these two inquiries. Kirk, a mom to 2 toddlers, continues to tackle public-facing management duties whereas selling conventional concepts about prioritizing marriage and motherhood, and her garments are trying to stroll the identical excessive wire.
Maloy completed by quoting the New Testomony and throwing in The Handmaid’s Story, like your garden-variety leftist hack:
Maybe essentially the most telling look of Kirk’s winter press tour got here at a New York Occasions occasion at Lincoln Heart in December. Talking onstage, Kirk wore an extended, ribbed charcoal sweaterdress with an identical turtleneck capelet.
Her lengthy blond hair was draped thick and straight over her shoulders, evoking the 1 Corinthians 11:15 look standard in sure circles of Christianity (“If a lady have lengthy hair, it’s a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a overlaying”). The comparisons to the sinister and cape-clad Commanders’ wives on the Hulu present The Handmaid’s Story arrived swiftly.
PS: Final October, Maloy boosted the Portland anti-ICE radicals with the story “How inflatable frog fits turned the protest vogue assertion of the yr.”
If an officer have been to harass a peaceable protester in a wiener-dog costume or a unicorn swimsuit, although, “It simply makes the violence actually type of clear, who’s doing it,” [Brooks] Brown says. “Like, you’re making an attempt to name the Rebel Act on Barney the Dinosaur and SpongeBob?” So late final week, Brown and some of his colleagues and buddies created Operation Inflation, a corporation offering puff-up costumes, like Thanksgiving Day parade balloons in miniature, to these protesting the crackdown by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
