Female delegates at the DNC are wearing white to honor women’s suffrage on night of Harris’ speech

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CHICAGO (AP) — If you think you’re seeing a lot of women wearing white during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, you don’t need to adjust your television set.

There appeared to be a coordinated effort among female delegates and Democratic supporters as they arrived at the United Center on Thursday afternoon, with security lines and convention floor seats filling up with women clad in white suits, dresses and other attire.

So when Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage for to accept the Democratic presidential nomination — becoming the first Black woman, and only the second woman overall, to do so — she will be looking out across a sea filled with the color of women’s suffrage, the movement that culminated with American women securing the right to vote in 1920.

The homage is a couture callback to other momentous political events in which women wearing white has played a role, particularly for other glass ceiling moments.

Hillary Clinton donned a white suit when she accepted the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. And Geraldine Ferraro — the first female candidate for vice president — wore white when she accepted that nomination at Democrats’ 1984 convention.

It’s the fourth and final day of the DNC. Here’s what to know:

• Catch up on Night 3: The DNC barreled into its third day with a lineup headlined by former President Bill Clinton and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The final speaker was Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, introducing himself as Harris’ running mate. Here are thetakeaways.
• What to watch today: Vice President Kamala Harris will accept her party’s nomination during a speech in