--- title: Melania Trump's $1,100 'Pussy-Bow' Shirt Trolled Us All description: The shared language between Melania’s fashion and Donald’s latest faux-pas was likely unintentional canonical: https://time.com/4524587/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-shirt-donald/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-10T04:17:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:20.477Z og:title: Melania Trump's $1,100 'Pussy-Bow' Shirt Trolled Us All og:description: Melania Trump's Sunday night debate look came with a hefty price tag — and a tongue-in-cheek name. og:url: https://time.com/4524587/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-shirt-donald/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt340460a578e6b7da/6988a94e524fc0fca2df9c7f/gettyimages-613703394.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3020 og:image:height: 1699 og:image:alt: Candidates Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Hold Second Presidential Debate At Washington University og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Melania Trump's $1,100 'Pussy-Bow' Shirt Trolled Us All twitter:description: Melania Trump's Sunday night debate look came with a hefty price tag — and a tongue-in-cheek name. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt340460a578e6b7da/6988a94e524fc0fca2df9c7f/gettyimages-613703394.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Melania Trump's $1,100 'Pussy-Bow' Shirt Trolled Us All by [Lindsay Kimble / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Lindsay Kimble / People Contributor Oct 10, 2016 4:17 AM UTC  Melania Trump greets her husband Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after the town hall debate at Washington University on Oct. 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. Melania Trump greets her husband Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after the town hall debate at Washington University on Oct. 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri.Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Lindsay Kimble / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Lindsay Kimble / People Contributor Oct 10, 2016 4:17 AM UTC Melania Trump’s [Sunday night debate](http://time.com/4523324/second-presidential-debate-donald-trump-town-hall/) look came with a hefty price tag — and a tongue-in-cheek name. Melania, who supported husband Donald Trump at the second Presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, from the audience, stood out in the $1,100 Gucci Pussy-bow silk crepe de chine shirt. The shared language between Melania’s fashion and Donald’s latest [faux-pas](http://time.com/4524010/donald-trumps-lewd-comments-leave-the-gop-scrambling/?xid=homepage) was likely unintentional, but still hard to ignore. On Friday, The Washington Post released a 2005 video of the GOP candidate making [lewd comments](http://time.com/4523851/donald-trump-apology-access-hollywood/?xid=homepage) about women just months after he wed Melania. At one point in the video, Trump told then-Access Hollywood star [Billy Bush](http://time.com/money/4524382/billy-bush-suspended-from-today-over-trump-tape/) that he can grab women “by the p—-” because he’s a “star.” The backlash against Donald was swift, with many major party leaders blasting their candidate’s lascivious words as akin to condoning or admitting sexual assault. Ahead of the debate, Melania herself called her husband’s commentary “unacceptable and offensive.” “This does not represent the man that I know,” she said in a statement. “He has the heart and mind of a leader.” During Sunday’s debate, [Trump asserted](http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-addresses-tapes/) that his words were just “locker room talk.” Still, he said, “I apologize to my family. To the American people. Certainly I’m not proud of it.” [_This article originally appeared on People.com_](http://people.com/style/melania-trump-pussy-bow-top-at-debate/?xid=socialflow%5Ftwitter%5Fpeoplemag) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4524587/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-shirt-donald/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4524587/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-shirt-donald/"},"headline":"Melania Trump's $1,100 'Pussy-Bow' Shirt Trolled Us All","datePublished":"2016-10-10T04:17:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:20.477Z","description":"The shared language between Melania’s fashion and Donald’s latest faux-pas was likely unintentional","url":"https://time.com/4524587/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-shirt-donald/","keywords":["motto","2016 Election","Melania Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt340460a578e6b7da/6988a94e524fc0fca2df9c7f/gettyimages-613703394.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lindsay Kimble / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt340460a578e6b7da/6988a94e524fc0fca2df9c7f/gettyimages-613703394.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Candidates Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Hold Second Presidential Debate At Washington University","caption":"Candidates Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Hold Second Presidential Debate At Washington University","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4524587/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-shirt-donald/","name":"Melania Trump's $1,100 'Pussy-Bow' Shirt Trolled Us All"}}]}] ```