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Gillian Anderson in a suit. Cate Blanchett in a suit. Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner… in a suit. All of these have – at various times – sent lesbian Twitter into a frenzy. A by-product of the fashion industry’s continuing appropriation of our style is just how regularly we now get to see incredible women, besuited and looking like they’re about to take over the world.
There’s something about women in suits that gets to us; something so deeply rooted that it’s hard to know what, exactly. Like most things that provoke this sort of response in queer women, it can probably be traced back to Shane from The L Word.