POWER OFF

ou know the look. The tailored double-breasted jacket, the wide-set shoulders, the three-piece routine. Glorified in ‘80s-era boardroom assemblies and late lunch to predinner drinking sprees at the old Four Seasons on 52nd St. in Manhattan, dressing powerfully has always been or the turnback cuffed dress shirts that Michael Douglas wore beneath chest-hugging suspenders as Gordon Gekko in . All this to say: the fancy getup is, but of course, key. As American women soon moved into offices and up the corporate ladder, so too did their cinematic counterparts, dressed to the nines in padded shoulders and rich, roll-neck sweaters. The female “power suit” delivered the first round of blows against the professional glass ceiling.