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The most striking thing about the crowd of family and supporters that Donald J. Trump brought onstage with him to make his victory speech on election night was that they looked as if they were attending a cocktail party rather than a historic political gathering.

Instead of painting a picture of the flag in coordinated red, white and blue, the color palette that has dominated every Trump event since the president-elect declared his third candidacy and that Mr. Trump has made as much his signature as the MAGA hat, they painted a picture that, as Mr. Trump said in his speech, was “better, bolder, richer.” One that created its own image of family values.

While Mr. Trump was in his usual blue suit, white shirt and bright red tie, he was flanked on one side by his wife, Melania, in a gray Dior New Look suit, both trussed up and haute. On the other side, his daughter-in-law, Lara, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, was in a sheer black sequined shirt with razor-sharp shoulder pads and wore skinny black pants. Her husband, Eric, wore a glossy silver-blue tie with his suit; farther downstage, Mr. Trump’s oldest granddaughter, Kai, likewise wore sequins.

Also deviating from the red-tie norm in this spotlit moment: JD Vance, the vice president-elect, who wore a lilac tie for the first time since joining the ticket, and Barron Trump, Mr. Trump’s youngest child, who wore a striped one. (Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, wore no tie at all.)

Mr. Vance’s wife, Usha, was next to her husband, smiling up at him in an off-the-shoulder little black dress. Not far away was Ivanka Trump, in only her second appearance to support her father (the first having been at the Republican National Convention), clapping in a sapphire velvet pantsuit, her hair in Veronica Lake waves.

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