If John Fetterman Can Wear Shorts, Why Not the Senate Pages?
The Spring 2012 Page Class posing with Mitch McConnell in their government-issued uniforms. (Courtesy of the author)
Susan Collins is threatening to show up in a bikini. Josh Hawley is in jeans. But there’s a group of teenage Senate staffers whose dress code remains strict as ever.
In the fall of 2012, when I was sixteen, a big, brown box arrived at my parents house. In it were four or five rough blue suits and half a dozen white button-down shirts. Because the material of the suits was made—and God knows how—out of recycled plastic bottles, a thick cardboard tag warned that should the fabric catch fire while worn, one should imme…
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