Wearing Your Coat Like a Cape: The Ultimate Female Power Move?

From Melania Trump to Meghan Markle, the confounding practice with 1950s glamour roots has taken hold in the photo-op era

FASHION EDITORS do it. Instagram influencers definitely do it. First lady Melania Trump has done it for countless photo ops; Kim Kardashian West has done it in Paris. Last spring, Meghan Markle notably did it on her way to a royal engagement in London. Occasionally, Jimmy Fallon does it, too, when shimmying on stage at “The Tonight Show.”

It’s the confounding and often controversial styling trick of slinging a coat (or blazer or other jacket) over your shoulders but stopping short of putting your arms through the sleeves....