Designers and manufacturers in the '80s tried to convince businesswomen that a pair of culottes and a matching jacket were just the things to wear to the office. Most working women across America did not believe Seventh Avenue. Jones, however, apparently did. If only Jones had been wearing a bustier, which Madonna transformed into a post-feminist badge of honor. We're not even talking about a pair of high heels, which would at least have provided material for a debate on gender politics.
Culottes are the fashion equivalent of processed cheese or mini-marts.
They are banal. In the deposition, Jones recalls wearing culottes when, she says, then-Gov. Clinton was moved to compliment her appearance. It was a white, like a long culotte thing. Those were in style then and it was made out of like a silk type of material.