12 Women Politicians and Activists Who Have Proudly Made Fashion Part of the Conversation

"No one puts a scarf on my head but me. It's my choice — one protected by the first amendment. And this is not the last ban I'm going to work to lift," Ilhan tweeted after becoming the first federal legislator to wear a religious headscarf, a piece she works into her outfits with style, sense, and sophistication. In 2019, she told Yahoo: "There are two women in Congress right now — one of them wears a hijab and the other doesn't — and for me it was a choice that I made to have a visible visual representation of my faith. . . . I thought you know the best thing that I could do was to make sure that I was visually showing up in every aspect of society as a visible Muslim so that people can start to associate positive interactions with Muslims."