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Work wardrobes convey department and rank
Three days into her first agency job in 1994, Kristen Cavallo got a makeover. She and her boss were scheduled to fly to New York for a client meeting, but her boss didn’t like what he saw.
“He took one look at what I was wearing,” says Cavallo, “and said, ‘Oh, that won’t do.’ “
The pair’s first stop in New York was Saks, where Cavallo, a brand planner for Mullen in Boston, was re-outfitted from “something your mother would buy you to something your gay friend would buy you,” she says.
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