The 39-year-old Ohio senator is known beyond the Beltway and political circles, as is his wife Usha Vance, a high-powered attorney and mother of two sons and a daughter. The Cincinnati-based couple’s fashion style reflects their dual-sided work and family life. On Capitol Hill, the Millennial senator is a shirt-and-tie kind of guy, and at more relaxed public events or family outings, he favors such items as jeans, polo shirts, open-collar button-down dress shirts, dress pants, quarter-zip sweaters, chinos and the occasional hoodie.
Like Trump, J.D. Vance also believes that suits make the man and doesn’t shy away from controversial statements. Vance criticized last year’s short-lived relaxed dress code instituted by the Senate and its majority leader. “Look I know [Chuck] Schumer changed the dress code, but letting someone in the senate chamber dressed like this really crosses the line,” Vance posted on “X” last year showing a photo of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in an army green button-down shirt that he wore when visiting Congress.
Within a week, that casualization movement was nixed in favor of a more-formal
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