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Women's 1980s power suits were designed with masculine-style broad shoulders primarily to gain respect in what type of professional setting?
Answer
Corporate boardrooms
As more women entered management roles in the 1980s, the exaggerated shoulder silhouette was adopted specifically to help them be taken seriously alongside male colleagues in corporate boardrooms.
💡 Did you know?
The power suit of the 1980s mimicked men's broad-shouldered silhouettes because female executives needed to literally look bigger to be taken seriously in boardrooms.
Other options people guess
- Fashion runway shows
- Television news studios
- Political campaign rallies
Topics
- 1980s
- fashion
- workplace
- gender
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