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As more women entered once male-dominated fields of business and politics, business attire took on a certain look known as "power dressing." This often meant a business suit with a coordinating skirt.
The concept of power dressing was brought to popularity by John T. Molloy's manuals Dress for success (1975) and Women: dress for success (1977), which suggest a gender specific professional dress code. Molloy's manuals addressed a new kind of female workers entering in a typical masculine environment recommending the skirted suit as a "uniform ...
Now, so-called power dressing — a style popularized in the ’80s for businesswomen trying to assert their power through menswear-inspired looks — is about creatively fusing styles and ...
These first appeared in Europe, and reached North America by the mid-1980s. Young people would often wear two or three of these watches on the same arm. [citation needed] Eyewear. In the first half of the 1980s, glasses with large, plastic frames were in fashion for both men and women. Small metal framed glasses made a return to fashion in 1984 ...
LONDON — After a year of dressing from the waist up and swapping tailoring for hoodies, joggers and tracksuits, are professionals ready to ditch the loungewear, put on a suit and return to the ...
Macaroni was a term used to refer to a group of young, urban English men in the 1760s-1770s who adopted ostentatious, effeminate dress. [3] The style Macaronis adopted was more similar to the fashions of France and Italy, "retaining pastel color, pattern and ornament, at a time when their use was being displaced by more sober dressing in England."
Claude Montana (29 June 1947 – 23 February 2024) was a French fashion designer. His company, The House of Montana, founded in 1979, went bankrupt in 1997. He was also nicknamed "King of the Shoulder Pad," designing aggressive silhouettes which came to define the ‘power-dressing’ era of the 1980s.
Then there’s Jenna Lyons, who, during her tenure as Creative Director of J.Crew in the 2000s, gave women across America, including First Lady Michelle Obama, a new palette of sportswear and ...