Culture of Business Dress features women’s office clothing from the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection with context and commentary provided by Johnson Graduate School of Management faculty member Elizabeth McClean and MBA candidate and Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow Sarah Preston. Highlights include a red Armani power suit, an iconic Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress, and a recently donated purple Italian silk two-piece Darabin ensemble. Donor Lisa Colby-Jones describes her Darabin dress and jacket:

“Incredibly, this was a dress that I bought in the 1980s, as part of ‘dressing for success.’  I look at it now, and it truly stuns me that I would wear something so amazing to work—but in the 1980s, there were few senior women in finance (I had a 34-year career at Morgan Stanley), and along with the shoulder pads, you had to look like you were already successful, even if you were still climbing the ranks and success was highly uncertain.”