Q 01/05

What two-word term describes the shoulder-padded look of 1980s career women?

A) Power dressing

B) Corporate chic

C) Boardroom couture

D) Executive tailoring

Answer · why

A) Power dressing

Power dressing: the term took hold as women entered management in large numbers, with padded shoulders and tailored suits borrowed from menswear, and ...

Q 02/05

Joan Collins and Linda Evans helped make oversized shoulder pads a craze on which prime-time soap opera?

A) Dallas

B) Dynasty

C) Knots Landing

D) Falcon Crest

Answer · why

B) Dynasty

Dynasty's costume designer Nolan Miller dressed the Carringtons in ever-bigger silhouettes across the ABC soap's nine seasons from 1981, and the trend...

Q 03/05

Which French designer was nicknamed 'the King of the Shoulder Pad'?

A) Thierry Mugler

B) Claude Montana

C) Jean Paul Gaultier

D) Christian Lacroix

Answer · why

B) Claude Montana

Montana's exaggerated, almost armour-like shoulders are credited with defining the whole power-dressing era.

Q 04/05

Norma Kamali's best-selling 1981-82 collection was made from which unlikely fabric?

A) Sweatshirt fleece

B) Parachute nylon

C) Stretch Lycra

D) Stonewashed denim

Answer · why

A) Sweatshirt fleece

Sweatshirt fleece: Kamali's 'Sweats' line cut the grey gym fabric into rah-rah miniskirts, dresses and jumpsuits, and its removable Velcro shoulder pa...

Q 05/05

Besides lace gloves and tulle skirts, Madonna's 'Like a Virgin'-era imitators wore big jewelry in what shape?

A) Peace signs

B) Skulls

C) Crucifixes

D) Hearts

Answer · why

C) Crucifixes

Crucifixes, often several at once, hung alongside stacks of rubber bracelets in a look styled by Maripol; it also took in lace gloves, bras worn as ou...