Pant suit
The American politician Jean Schmidt in a pants suit
In women's outerwear, a trouser suit is an ensemble of jacket and long trousers made of the same fabric. A blouse is usually worn underneath . In men's clothing, this corresponds to the suit .
history
The acceptance of the trouser suit has changed dramatically over the past decades:
- Marlene Dietrich made the trouser suit socially acceptable in the 1930s.
- Lenelotte von Bothmer ( SPD ) sparked a scandal in 1970 because she was the first woman to give a speech in the Bundestag in a trouser suit .
- Chancellor Angela Merkel appears almost exclusively in a trouser suit. While on the one hand this is valued as "style-forming", on the other hand it attracts ridicule and is even described in cabaret as "the trouser suit" or "federal trouser suit".
- Even Hillary Clinton often occurs in the pantsuit.
Web links
Commons : Pantsuits - Collection of Images
Wiktionary: pants suit - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Sabine Reichel: To freedom! And in the executive suite! In: Berliner Zeitung . December 30, 2006, accessed June 19, 2015 .
- The waistband
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melanie Amann: Clothing and Career - Now women have the suits on. In: FAZ . December 12, 2009, accessed June 19, 2015 .
- ^ NN: Plenary minutes of October 14, 1970 (PDF, here p. 101). In: German Bundestag. October 14, 1970. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Bunte: "The Chancellor of Trousers"
- ^ "Barbie with 20 trouser suits": FDP Minister Rösler makes Merkel a joke. (No longer available online.) In: Hamburger Morgenpost . September 7, 2010, archived from the original on April 8, 2011 ; Retrieved June 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Wiktionary: "Periphrase"