The complex history of the power shoulder means it can convey confidence, power and authority.
NEW YORK - In terms of personality and policy, Ms Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are starkly contrasting figures. Yet they have often had one thing in common: a silhouette that features powerfully padded shoulders.
For both candidates, this strong silhouette offers the opportunity to shape a defining image: for Trump, as a billionaire who positions himself as anti-establishment; for Ms Harris, as a formidable figure who more than belongs in a realm once reserved for men. In the late 1800s in the United States, college football players began wearing protective gear across their shoulders, which lent an imposing square-shouldered look.
Actress Joan Crawford, in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce, was known for wearing heavily padded shoulders, a look created for her by the renowned couturier Gilbert Adrian, known as Adrian. This angular silhouette gave her a commanding presence despite a diminutive stature, enabling her to visually inhabit roles such as Pierce, an ambitious and powerful woman who refuses to be subservient to men.
These two contrasting meanings of the power shoulder – strength, tradition and masculinity, but also exuberance and swagger – came together in the shoulder pad’s undisputed heyday: the 1980s. When Trump was on trial on 34 felony counts in Manhattan, many high-profile supporters showed up in solidarity wearing similar attire: worsted suits heavily padded across the top and paired with white shirts and bright red satin ties, a uniform look that signals loyalty to him.
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