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power dressing, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈpaʊə ˌdrɛsɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈpaʊ(ə)r ˌdrɛsɪŋ|
[‹ power n.1 + dressing n.]
A style of dress for work and business, typically formal, fashionable, and imposing in style, intended to convey an impression of efficiency, self-confidence, and assertiveness.
The term is particularly associated with the business world of the 1980s. It predominantly refers to styles of women's clothing, esp. formal suits (in early use) characterized by the use of shoulder pads to create a more masculine-looking outline.
1979Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 17 Sept. 19/5 The accent has shifted to glamour and power dressing for the city rather than the casual look of past seasons. 1980N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. iv. 20/3 Women who are into Power Dressing, that is, the right kind of well cut suit, silk shirt and discreet pump, all worn in the interests of androgyny on the job, may be happy about the entry of men's suit manufacturers into the women's suit business. 1992M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) i. 30, Another school—that of American power dressing, for instance. The brutal, sharp, stiletto look, say, of Michael Douglas in Wall Street. 2001Vogue Mar. 74/1 We were seeing..a radically new idea of power dressing. |