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In India, Ivanka Trump tried on some fashion diplomacy. Was it a good look?

Ivanka did not address the issue during her various speeches and panels, but she did use dress in a notable way

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Ivanka Trump at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad

Vanessa Friedman | NYT
It was hard to look at Ivanka Trump’s wardrobe during her India trip this week and not ask the question. After all, from her opening mother-of-pearl embroidered jacket to her final kurta dress, she swerved from her usual pencil skirts and high heels to make her clothes part of the content of her communications. And there were many: two and a half days, six looks, all excitedly chronicled by local style watchers.
 
Indeed, Trump, in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana, to lead the United States delegation to the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit, had