Contrary to conventional wisdom, Elsa Schiaparelli was the first to wear the first silhouettes with epaulettes. Famous for its inflection for the growths of clothing and other morphological eccentricities, the designer proposes in the thirties the first tailor with these small padded cushions.

A stylistic boldness which, if it is then noticed, will know its hour of glory only half a century later, in a dynasty eighties placed under the sign of power to the feminine. Powered by open-space spots and other offices with prefabricated walls, the working-girl's locker room is embroiled in men's formal wear , as if to better compete with its followers. Creators like Thierry Mugler and Claude Montana put their imprint on them in a fantasy femininity by structuring more than ever his tailors with ultra-slim strokes and oversized shoulders.

Today, it is Balenciaga , Celine or Jil Sander who try to bring it back to the taste of the day, despite a doubtful desirability. Ultra-stigmatized, the jacket with epaulettes can be difficult to evoke without producing strong reminiscences related to the dressing maternal or pre-thirty years for the elder ones .

Like the spindle pants, the blazer of the working girl Cybill Shepherd in "Clair de Lune" is part of his pieces that we keep an emotional memory, but especially a desire completely over. It is difficult to think seriously about presenting his PowerPoint dressed in a jacket doubling our case, a fortiori if we practice in a medium not frankly fashionable. We leave without turning this fashion fad a bit nostalgic to the fools stylistic originality or audacious in search of graphic silhouette, even assume a style considered too classic.