But women set the direction…and the tone. You get the sense that things are changing.” By the 1980s, the previous decades’ pliable polyester suits were quickly replaced with more structured ...

Remember power suits? At the same time women were entering the corporate workplace ... Lord Fauntleroy would have been at home in. The 1980s power suit was designed to ignore a woman's shape ...

Born in Silicon Valley in the early 1980s ... knows: Dress standards are a product of their environment. The same unspoken groupthink that kept East Coast employees in power suits with padded ...