Lately, the Mar-A-Largo look has been hitting online forums, memes, and posts. It’s hard for it not to make waves. I mean, the women who seem to populate the world of Trump have been getting a lot of plastic surgery — a whole lot!

There are a lot of different procedures that go into the Mar-A-Largo look, including fillers, rhinoplasty, a boob job, chin surgery, facelifts, and more. I’ll drop in what Wikipedia had to say below:

If you look at some of the women, you can see it doesn’t look natural. It actually looks pretty unhealthy, if not just outright unflattering. In recent years, people have started to ask why women have been asking for Mar-A-Largo-style plastic surgery.

As a person who’s done a lot of work in the fashion and modeling worlds, let me enlighten you.

Think about how often people used fashion as a form of rebellion against the status quo in recent decades. There is a process of mainstreaming fashion as it becomes more popular — and it often means that the beliefs that come with the fashion also become more mainstream.

Let’s start looking at the 1950s. During this era, bikinis were so scandalized that they were actually named after the Bikini Atoll nuke testing site. Women were often written up for “indecency” if they went on a beach in a bikini.

The type of ideal body was buxom, like Bettie Page or Marilyn Monroe. However, since purity culture was heavily enforced, this often led models to lead absolutely horrible lives. Both Page and Monroe had died by suicide, which was partially caused by the stigma they experienced as models.

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They were also famously depressed through most of their lives.

Fashion, oddly enough, had a way of trying to make a statement against the way women were treated. In the 1960s, hippie fashion and bell-bottom jeans were a way to show rebellion against the Vietnam War. Miniskirts were a way of embracing feminine power and telling women that they don’t need to hide their curves.

By the 1970s, bells became mainstream, but we saw the rise of punk and metal. Guess what is still around today: punk. Punk clothing is a loud way to show respect and solidarity with the working class while bucking the status quo.

The 1980s saw post-punk, pop, and glam rock. All of those fashions have since become iconic. And, the ideals that those clothes carried also tended to get more mainstream — inclusivity, non-judgmentalism, and yes, sex-positivity. See what I mean?

With the changes in fashion came changes in “popular” body types. The 1940s and 1950s were all about buxom femininity. Twiggy, from the 1960s, was a way to turn that standard on its ear and re-examine what it meant to be feminine. The 1980s saw the aerobics slender look, which was meant to show strength and power.

Body changes, be it the skeletal “pro-ana” of the 2000s or the all-inclusive plus-size renaissance of the 2010s, have always been linked to fashion statements. And those? Those are also linked to statements about society.

So, keep that in mind when I talk about the Mar-A-Largo face and the modern conservative woman look.

The best example of this in modern times was Victoria’s Secret. Victoria’s Secret might be hated by feminists today, but in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, it was a major leap forward in terms of female empowerment.

Having grown up in that era, I remember being slut-shamed for dancing, walking with a sway in my hip, and even having boobs. It was drilled into girls that their bodies were dirty, wrong, or filthy. To be openly sexual was social suicide.

I ought to know, I suffered the consequences of existing while “sexy” as a teen.

Victoria’s Secret packed a powerful punch in the fashion world because it was the first store to be geared toward mainstream buys while turning up the heat. The original commercials had a fictional woman named Victoria who spoke in a posh British accent and was clearly successful in her own right.

Creating her character, both sexy and intelligent, changed things. It gave women around the world to say, “It’s okay to be sexy,” and turned the runway-ready “Angels” into a major cultural phenomenon.

That’s what made VS explode. What made it shrink was when others started to ask why Angels all appeared to be size 0, 5’11 models who looked a little sick. That pivot took too long for them to make, which is why the company is struggling today.

Victoria’s Secret was provocative and designed to be sexy, avant-garde, and intelligently alluring.

While traditional fashion houses like Victoria’s Secret tend to be all about being provocative and evolving what it meant to be well-dressed, MAGA took things backward. They’re not progressing. They’re regressing.

Let’s talk about the suits we see so many women in the MAGA world wearing. In the 80s, a woman wearing a power suit was a feminist. Today, it’s a throwback to what many GOP voters deemed “a simpler time,” because women were still mostly homemakers back then.

This is why so many MAGA women look like they’re still wearing the 80s power suits you’d see in vaporwavey commercials. That’s why they all have that conservative veneer and why they do not deviate from the standards set on them.

It’s their way of bringing the past back.

While progressive fashion has also started to blur the lines when it comes to gendered clothing, MAGA doubles down in hyperfeminine attire. This is why you see so many of these women choosing high heels, skirts, skin-tight leggings, and wearing their hair long.

It’s not surprising that you can’t find a “butch” type of MAGA woman these days, evne with the suits abound. MAGA is a movement with very clearly defined gender roles. If you’re “butch,” you can’t be a MAGA woman by default.

For many people, it’s hard to explain why conservative women often wear heavily “cover upped” clothes like suits and boxy jackets one minute, only to go into skin-tight yet not revealing dresses the next.

It’s simple, really.

Conservatism is all about body-shaming and “modest is hottest” aesthetic. Yet, these women still live in (and promote) a patriarchy, which means they’re still on the meat market. Those ladies still have to compete to find a wealthy man.

The end result is that you have women who tell others to cover up, but often don’t do the same thing. They know the male gaze. They know conservatism is fetishized among men because it means those women are easier to control at face value.

So you end up with people like Tomi Lahren and Laura Loomer who tend to show off their bodies while preaching about being virgins or whatever. They need men. Their livelihoods requires men to praise them so they get ahead.

If they were truly practiced what they preached, you’d never know their names because they’d just be some housewife in Wisconsin who never goes outside unless it’s at a church.

The other part of this is the way that conservative groups treat women who are wronged by their partner. If a man cheats, MAGAts tend to blame the woman and ask why “she let him get tempted by others.”

Needless to say, this is a big part of the reason as to why Utah is now one of the top states for plastic surgery. Conservatism and body dysmorphia go hand-in-hand, so it’s not surprising that right-wing women go under the knife to keep their perceived value up.

By now, you might have figured something out. Plastic surgery is often used to accentuate what makes a person unique. In MAGAland, it does the opposite.

GOP women have to walk a fine line between sexually attractive and totally unremarkable in appearance. They need to look hot, but they can’t stand out. Republican women often use plastic surgery as a way to subtly remove what makes them unique.

While modern fashion has started to embrace body positivity thanks to models who don’t quite fit “traditional” standards, MAGA kicked it backward. It’s a movement that treasures conformity, not standing out.

They’re forcing themselves into an unnatural standard as a way to prove that they’re able to meet that standard. It’s performative, nuanced submission proving that they can be the best bird in the gilded cage.

This is also why leftist fashion tends to run a massively wide gamut from the skimpy to the frumpy, from the sleek to the futuristic. Leftists prize individuality. Conservatives don’t. ‘Nuff said.