Suffragists wore white 96 years ago. Now Clinton voters are doing the same.

WASHINGTON — It’s been a dark election season in many respects, but around the country, women are ending it by wearing white.

They’re donning white blouses, pulling white pantsuits from closets or shopping for new ones, dressing babies in white Onesies. Then they are heading to the polls to cast their vote to elect the person they hope will be the country’s first female president.

The color white references the long fight women waged to gain the right to vote, an official color of their movement to gain the right to vote, often worn by suffragists in protests in the early 1900s.

“I wanted to show my children that they are witnessing history,” said Michelle Gajda, a college instructor in Tampa. She took her 3-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old son — both also dressed in white — with her to vote early last week. She plans to wear white again this weekend as she canvasses for Hillary Clinton and again on Election Day.

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