Chinese authorities are upset over a detail of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s outfit on social media.

To cover the costs of clothing that can only be driven higher [in price] by the trade war,” but she expressed no optimism regarding.

A quick reduction in tariffs or the financial stability of American fashion companies and consumers. Leavitt’s dress controversy, according to Minh-ha Pham,

A professor of digital media at the Pratt Institute, “underscores a significant blind spot in this administration’s understanding of the global economy and its imposition of tariffs,

Especially the high tariffs being meted out to Asian countries and China, in particular.” Pham also said that the controversy highlights economic entanglements.