When protests blocked roads and polluted life with gas-filled burning tires in 2012 Lebanon, the Bokja (pronounced "bubjeh") textile house countered by rolling out a photographic display of tires covered with its elaborately embroidered fabrics.
President Trump's red cap was followed by women donning knitted pink "Pussyhats" when they marched to protest his claim about where he could grab any woman.
Black gowns worn at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards announced women were finished playing amateur sex object roles for Hollywood's powerful moguls.
To demonstrate their increasing numbers and rightful place in Congress, women lawmakers joined males at the 2019 State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. wearing white outfits like those suffragettes used to call attention to their cause.
What fashions might help call attention to the need to address climate change and other problems?
To concoct the bugs intense heat could spawn and other dramatic protest examples, look to the Mummers who parade in Philadelphia on New Year's Day, "Miss Universe" costumes, and the beaded creations strutting in New Orleans' Mardi Gras parades.
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