All jokes aside, however, you can't discount the role fashion is playing (and will play) throughout the newly diverse Senate and House of Representatives. With more women, especially women of color, than ever before, the stakes are high in terms of how fashion will be used to make statements throughout the course of their changing of history. Newly elected congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of the Bronx, for example, chose to wear suffragette white for her swearing in — a nod to the female leaders before her who wore the same, like Shirley Chisholm, Geraldine Ferraro, and Hillary Clinton.