NH Legislators Insist Wearing Pearls To Oppose Gun Control Legislation Doesn't Mock Moms With Dead Kids

MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE FOUNDER SHANNON WATTS JOINS OTHER GUN-SAFETY ADVOCATES FOR A NEWS CONFERENCE TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO EXPAND BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR FIREARM SALES IN THE RAYBURN ROOM OF THE U.S. CAPITOL JAN. 8, 2019, IN WASHINGTON. VIA CBS NEWS

NH Legislators Insist Wearing Pearls To Oppose Gun Control Legislation Doesn't Mock Moms With Dead Kids

It seems that Republican male legislators in New Hampshire are really taking the gloves off -- wearing pearls to mock moms involved in trying to act against gun violence. The trope of pearl-clutching, easily-offended liberals has a tradition in American politics.

"Male New Hampshire lawmakers on the hearing committee wearing pearls to mock Moms Demand Action volunteers and gun safety advocates," wrote Shannon Watts, founder of the gun control group Moms Demand Action, to describe the picture above.

Her post condemning the men quickly spread, accruing more than 6,000 shares and almost 5,000 comments, writes the BBC.

Debra Altschiller, a Democratic representative who sponsored the bill, tweeted: "Disappointed in the pearl clutching by @NHGOP [New Hampshire Republicans]. There are families who have lost loved ones here and this mocking prop shows how little they empathise with suicide."

Victoria's Secret To Close 53 Stores in 2019 As Global Auto Sales Also Drop In Major Spending Shifts

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Victoria's Secret To Close 53 Stores in 2019 As Global Auto Sales Also Drop In Major Spending Shifts

American teenagers no longer hang out at the mall like generations past. Their lives are far more complex and demanding; then add in the high priority of digital culture and online shopping in their lives. Their fashion fav brands often aren’t even sold in America’s shopping malls.

Last week was a brutal one for American retailers. L Brands made the decision to close 53 Victoria’s Secret stores in North America. Gap Inc. announced that it will close 230 stores in the next two years. J.C. Penney weighed in with 18 new department store closures. Earlier in February Payless announced the closure of 2,500 in America.

It’s not all bad news. Planet Fitness Chief Executive officer Chris Rondeau said his business is immune to e-commerce’s effects on brick-and-mortar, making it a good mall tenant, writes Business of Fashion.

“Our business can’t be Amazoned. We’re un-Amazonable,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “We do about 5,000 workouts per gym per week, about 8 million workouts a week in the U.S., so look at how much traffic we drive to these centers every day. And the majority of those visits are Monday through Wednesday; most retailers are busy on the weekends, so we’re a great co-tenant for these retailers to drive that traffic.”

Laurie Bartley Flashes Malaika Firth In 'Sweet Dreams' In Mauritius For ELLE Italia March 9, 2019

Laurie Bartley Flashes Malaika Firth In 'Sweet Dreams' In Mauritius For ELLE Italia March 9, 2019

Model Malaika Firth is styled by Micaela Sessa in ‘Sweet Dreams’ , lensed in Mauritius by Laurie Bartley for ELLE Italy March 9, 2019./ Hair by Gareth Bromell; makeup by Giovanni Iovine

Winnie Harlow Tracks Style Spots + Cats In Elegance Lensed By Harper Smith For Vogue Taiwan March 2019

Winnie Harlow Tracks Style Spots + Cats In Elegance Lensed By Harper Smith For Vogue Taiwan March 2019

Top model Winnie Harlow is styled by Sarah Gore Reeves in animal instinct elegance lensed by Harper Smith for Harper’s Bazaar Taiwan’s March 2019 issue. / Hair by Hos Hounkpatin; makeup by Ingeboerg

Gigi Hadid Covers Vogue Arabia's Second Anniversary Issue, Lensed By Peter Lindbergh

Gigi Hadid Covers Vogue Arabia's Second Anniversary Issue, Lensed By Peter Lindbergh

Palestinian American supermodel Gigi Hadid celebrates the second anniversary of Vogue Arabia in her first image collaboration with esteemed photographer Peter Lindbergh. Wearing Giambattista Valli Couture and Givenchy Couture, the editorial was photographed in Paris during Fashion Week.

The March 2019 cover is Hadid’s 37th to date, and her second for Vogue Arabia after launching the magazine’s debut in 2017, shot by Inez & Vinoodh. It’s refreshing to see that the Twitter pc police didn’t run Hadid off this anniversary cover after her debut appearance.

“Being Arab has influenced me to be open and loving of all backgrounds, realizing that being more of one thing doesn’t make you less of something else,” she muses proudly, reflecting on the impact her Palestinian heritage has had on her life. Last year, Hadid was photographed celebrating Eid with pop star Zayn Malik, and also marched the streets of New York protesting against US President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban in 2017.

Not mentioned in Vogue Arabia, we note that Gigi Hadid is also a UN ambassador in refugee camps in the Muslim world.

Jana Julius Wears 'Spring Beauth That Bends The Rules' By Liz Collins For Models.com

Jana Julius Wears 'Spring Beauth That Bends The Rules' By Liz Collins For Models.com

Models.com welcomes spring with their latest MDCBeauty story featuring rising model Jana Julius and Shiseido. Makeup artist Lisa Houghton chooses precise liners and plush lip colors to craft a colorful, modern beauty, with hair by Lacy Redway and styling by Soraya Dayani.

Photographer Liz Collins joins an all-female to remind us all that girls don’t just wanna have fun — or be the focus of the male photographers gaze. Across the world, women want to work . . . to shoot . . . to direct . . . to act. TOGETHER! Models.com calls the shoot a perfect nod to International Women’s Day on March 8.

We not only seek ‘Spring Beauty That Bends The Rules’, as Models.com names the beauty story. We want to rewrite those rules, so they are not a capricious two-year trend, but a far more inclusive balance of bright ideas and photographic visions in the fashion industry.

McKenna Joins The Boys Club In Stefano Galuzzi Images For Vanity Fair France March 2019

McKenna Joins The Boys Club In Stefano Galuzzi Images For Vanity Fair France March 2019

Model McKenna Hellam is styled by Marina Gallo in boss lady looks lensed by Stefano Galuzzi for Vanity Fair France March 2019./ Hair by Rimi Ura; makeup by Lili Choi

Frederikke Sofie Wears 'The Sultry Beauty of Salvatore Ferragamo' By Hugo Comte For AnOther Magazine SS2019

Frederikke Sofie Wears 'The Sultry Beauty of Salvatore Ferragamo' By Hugo Comte For AnOther Magazine SS2019

Model Frederikke Sofie is styled by Nell Karonji in ‘The Sultry Beauty of Salvatore Ferragamo’, lensed by Hugo Comte for AnOther Magazine SS2019./ Hair by Louis Ghewy; makeup by Mathias van Hooff

Anna Ewers For H&M Studio Leads Glam Explorers To Sedona's Woolly Mammoth Country

Anna Ewers For H&M Studio Leads Glam Explorers To Sedona's Woolly Mammoth Country

H&M Studio’s spring summer 2019 collection is inspired by the ‘glam explorer’. Lachlan Bailey captures top model Anna Ewers in Sedona, in advance of H&M’s post-Paris Fashion Week Fall 2019 presentation. March 11-13.

This is one strategy for making the post fall 2019 collections fashion press a captive audience, ready for some R&R in Georgia O’Keeffe country. Not only will the fashion pack breathe some fresh, feminist artist Sedona air. They will be in woolly mammoth country, a topic near and dear to my heart.

In 1997 the Chandler, Arizona museum examined the stunning discovery of the remains of the ice age creature in a newly dug sewer ditch. “City officials stopped work and called in the experts: scientists from nearby Arizona State University,” the article read. “Brad Archer, the curator of the University’s Museum of Geology confirmed the find: a woolly mammoth — and quite well preserved.”