everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
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Dressing for Success: The Re-Suiting of Corporate America in the 1970s by Patricia A. Cunningham in Twentieth-Century American Fashion (2005)
The Women’s Dress for Success Book by John Molloy (1977)
“The Clothes I Wear Help Me to Know My Own Power”: The Politics of Gender Presentation in the Era of Women's Liberation by Betty Luther Hillman (2013)
Dress for Success in the Popular Press by Jennifer Paff Ogle and Mary Lynn Damhorst in Appearance and Power (1999)
Uniforming the Corporate Body in the City of London by Samira Guerra in Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World (2019)
Introduction: Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment by Annette Lynch Katalin Medvedev in Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment (2019)
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval (2014)
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0:00 - intro
3:32 - what is corpcore?
12:22 - the history of officewear
19:44 - how did we get here?
26:35 - the reality of office life
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