The importance of taking an outfit from day to night is something that generations of American women had drilled into our brains by women’s-magazine editorials, but somehow, none of them ever mentioned how to dress for 48 consecutive hours of press appearances during the home stretch of your campaign for president. (Strange.) That’s the conundrum that Vice President and 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is facing this week, as she goes straight from a sweatsuit-clad Sunday guest spot on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast to a Monday appearance on 60 Minutes to a Late Show With Stephen Colbert interview on Tuesday. (She somehow fit in a Howard Stern appearance, too.)
In the ever-changing media landscape, dress codes are changing, too. Many people were surely horrified to see Cooper interviewing Harris in—gasp!—a hoodie. But the Vice President played ball with the podcaster, whose sartorial M.O. encourages a cozy intimacy—be it for the sake of the guest or the audience. Harris, of course, did not wear an actual sweatsuit, but a double-zip navy jacket that resembled an elevated track jacket. With its hardware-heavy detailing, Harris’s more low-key look was in tune with Cooper’s audience—dubbed the “Daddy Gang”—without sacrificing the dignity of her office. (She did pair the jacket with her signature straight-legged trousers and pointy-toe pumps, after all.) Cooper, for her part, dressed up for the occasion, pairing her lavender hoodie with black pants and pointy-toe boots.