ONE OF MY earliest fashion memories is the “Votes for Women” suffragette sash that Winifred Banks wore in the original “Mary Poppins” movie, set in 1910. The fictional Mrs. Banks was meant to be part of Emmeline Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union, a British suffrage movement. As early branding masters, the suffragettes on both sides of the Atlantic used sashes, symbolic colors, fans, parasols, fine jewelry and even china to communicate their cause. Perhaps not since that Edwardian moment has the word “vote” so...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 10, 2020 12:00 UTC