Melania Trump has caused another fashion sensation, this time, at the recent Fourth of July parade. Her admirers and detractors both are still trying to decipher the significance of the dress that she wore at the red-white-and-blue parade.
Some have not been able to make up their minds whether it was her way of standing up to her husband's LGBTQ stance, employing her usually subtle ways. Others have made comment that she later seemed as though she was participating in a wet T-shirt display at the event, after the outfit had become damp from the rain that had ensued a couple of hours into the program.
During the relentless display of the military tanks flecked by American flags, both the President of the United States, Donald Trump, as well as his Vice President, Mike Pence, wore blue suits and sported red neckties. The Vice President's wife, the Second Lady Karen, had worn some Fourth-of-July colors in buntings wrapped around her neck.
But what caught most everyone's eyes was the dress that the First Lady had worn. It was a Caroline Herrera, a designer Melania has worn time and again, including recently during her trip to Japan in May.
Her Fourth-of-July get-up was very closely a gay-pride tribute, which was a white off-a-shoulder midi dress with some rainbow rings of blue, green, yellow, and pink running around her lower torso from the waist down. Melania also had on her quintessential Christian Louboutin heels in fuchsia.
Many of the First Lady's fans on social media jumped in to say that she was "absolutely gorgeous" in her sleeveless attire. One pointed out that her choice of dress was "interesting," and if that was for "gay pride?" she was a decided "rebel" for wearing that.
And yet some also gave her a small amount of bashing for having worn the white ensemble on a rainy day, calling it an "embarrassing" spectacle. A London tabloid had even termed the Caroline Herrera a "fashion fail" after it clearly showed the outline of her nipples when it had gotten wet from the rain.
But a defender tweeted back declaring it was embarrassing merely for the critic who posted the image of Melania damp from the rain, since it had already ceased by the time the image was posted.
A Twitter user posted that the First Lady's dress choice was a reminder that some people were still engaged in their "fight for liberty." In Melania's case, some quarters are asking whose liberty it was that she was standing up for.
