Hillary Clinton met up with community leaders in Oakland, California on Friday, wearing a vintage - if slightly unexpected - outfit.

The former secretary of state donned a pink gingham jacket with large white buttons as she sat down with mayor Libby Schaaf at the Home Of Chicken And Waffles.

Together they discussed gentrification, job opportunities and inequality in Oakland - and got so entrenched in the conversation no one noshed on the diner's comfort food specialties, NBC Bay Area reported.

Pink gingham became increasingly popular at the end of the 1950s, after French actress Brigitte Bardot wore it during her 1959 wedding to costar Jacques Charrier.

Hillary Clinton donned a pink gingham jacket with large white buttons as she sat down for a meeting at the Home Of Chicken And Waffles in Oakland, California on Friday (pictured)

The former secretary of state and mayor Libby Schaaf discussed gentrification, job opportunities and inequality in Oakland, ahead of the state's primary on June 7

Her bridal gown, with a fitted waist and a lace collar, ushered a new era of pastoral chic at the time.

But Clinton's outfit on Friday seemed strangely shapeless as she stood up to gesture at the diner's kitchen staff.

It was her second stop in Oakland this month. California's primary is scheduled for June 7 - little more than ten days away.

'I want to be a champion for Oakland and all the Oaklands of America ... places that have challenges but places that are coming together,' she said according to East Bay Times.

Clinton's outfit on Friday seemed strangely shapeless as she stood up to gesture at the diner's kitchen staff (pictured). Pink gingham became increasingly popular in the 1950s

Oakland's leaders and Clinton (pictured with Mayor Schaaf) got so entrenched in their conversation that no one noshed on the diner's specialties Friday

Derreck Johnson (left), the owner of the Home Of Chicken And Waffles, told Clinton that 70 per cent of his staff had served time behind bars

Clinton spoke in favor of programs designed to help incarcerated people learn business skills.

Derreck Johnson, the owner of the Home Of Chicken And Waffles, told her that 70 per cent of his staff had spent time behind bars.

He said the most gratifying part of his job was giving an employee their first pay check, East Bay Times wrote.

Clinton also addressed the disproportionate suspension rate in the school district, in which black students get suspended more often than their peers.

The situation, according to Clinton, 'is part of a disproportionate disciplinary culture and it is part of what contributes to this cradle-to-prison pipeline that we are all committed to ending.'

She also discussed problems in housing, with certain neighborhoods becoming too expensive for residents who have lived there for a long time.

'There are advantages, of course, to fixing up neighborhoods and making them attractive and all the rest of it,' she said according to East Bay Times.

'But I think it's a big price to pay to displace everybody who has been there ... through the bad times and deserve to be part of the good times.'

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders also campaigned in the Bay Area on Friday.

He held a meeting at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro in front of 1,000 people - most of them labor union members according to ABC 7.

'A moral economy is not an economy where CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, ship our jobs abroad and take away health care from their workers, ' he said.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders also campaigned in the Bay Area on Friday and held a meeting at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro (pictured)