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pantssuit en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pantsuit.
To the tune of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” Sarli brought out a bevy of models, male and female, in white pantssuits with swirling midi capes.
1970 January 30, Marian Christy, “Unknown Designer Sali Steals the Show in Rome”, in The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif., page C-3, column 4:Skin tight pantssuits, striped gloves, rabbit-fur lined.
1975, Red Jordan Arobateau, Ho Stroll: A Black Lesbian Novel, book 2, Red Jordan Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 66:[…]the 1970s saw increasing number of women in white-collar jobs win the right to wear trousers to work though some establishments required pantssuits.[…]The pantssuit is rare in most workplaces[…]
1987, Barbara F. Reskin, Patricia A. Roos, “Status Hierarchies and Sex Segregation”, in Christine Bose, Glenna Spitze, editors, Ingredients for Women’s Employment Policy, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
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