Although women were wearing feminine skirt suits with blazers in the 1920s, it wasn’t until the 1980s that women took on “power dressing.” With films like “The Working Girl” (1988), the world saw women in roles that men would usually claim, wearing pant suits to take on the workplace. The sport coat was born as a more casual blazer—usually made from corduroy, suede, denim, leather or tweed—and was designed to wear without matching pants, unlike the former pant suit with a blazer. Because ladies were rocking pant suits with blazers, the sports coat trickled down as a social norm. Now women wear a sport coat outside over their fall wardrobe, or with just about any pant/legging to add texture to a look.
THE SPORT COAT
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