Straight-Talking Rethinking The Suit

When President Trump said ‘women should dress like women’, did it send us diving into our closets for the nearest sensible little dress? It did not.

- Navaz Batliwalla

Instead it seems to have had quite the opposite effect, giving us cause to subvert the most powerful piece of menswear armour and make it our own.

Suits are part of the masculine working business uniform for a reason. They’re structured, symbolise military rigour and communicate a certain code of conduct. There are all sorts of rules governing a man’s suit, from how he knots his tie to how many buttons he should fasten on his jacket (hint: never the bottom one). Knowledge of these rules marks a man’s place in the office hierarchy and in society. But put a woman in a trouser suit today and happily it’s a less diktat-driven story.