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 ...

To dress for ... in the '70s. 1980s women’s fashion was a revolution of empowerment and self-expression. It spanned from the boardroom to the dance floor - structured power suits by day ...

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 ...

Reconsidering Thacther’s dress ... women come under more scrutiny than men in this regard, particularly as male politicians often purchase expensive clothes, for instance, Savile Row suits.” ...