One of my favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the season three entry “The Wish.” In this episode, social queen bee Cordelia returns to Sunnydale High after being impaled by a wayward spike of rebar, but even worse, after being cheated on by her unpopular boyfriend. But even though getting dumped by a social pariah is about the most humiliating thing she could bear, she walks into the hallways with her head held high and wearing her version of the late ’90s power suit: a oxblood leather pencil skirt and jacket, complemented with thick brown eyeliner, a spiky updo, and brown-red lipstick. The look is incredibly severe and wildly dated.
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