Dress is a powerful form of communication. No-one knew this better than the media-savvy leadership of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). The suffragettes wanted to avoid accusations ...

(Katy Stech Ferek/WSJ) Many women at the Democratic National Convention have a dress code for the final day of events: white outfits, the unifying color for suffragettes who fought for the right ...

Various women donned white dresses wearing sashes of purple and green — and later on purple and gold — marching for American women’s right to vote. Landmark women of the Women’s Suffrage Movement ...