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power dressing

British

noun

a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency

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Some new designers at New York Fashion Week redefined power dressing.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2022

Her niece, Sbu Mpungose, told the BBC that Selepe was "very strict… but fair", and loved power dressing.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2020

Little Women dressing is the new power dressing, it seems.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2020

And so designers offer up a next generation of power dressing.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2016

He had more dread of arbitrary power dressing itself in the long robe, than even of military power.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

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