There is infinite information available to women on how to make themselves look more attractive. You’ll find an unlimited number of tutorials on YouTube for make-up, hairstyles, and dressing to make your ex jealous on New Year’s Eve. We’ve been conditioned to find ways to look slimmer and taller and to feign having bigger lips. We can figure out how to look hotter, no problem.

But what’s largely missing from the conversation is how to look powerful.

For women dressing for the courtroom or for any other professional setting, the goal is not to look sexy; the goal is to give the appearance of confidence. The right powerful style can take the attention off of how you look and put it on where it belongs: on what you have to say. But historically, our only options to accomplish that are in reality just mimicking how men dress. Masculine, boxy pant suits and faux-feminine button-ups are the norm.

It is as if the only options we’ve been given for professional settings are the ones that mask the fact that we are women.

There are some resources for how to dress powerfully as a woman, though they’re far fewer in number than “how to dress cute for brunch.” One 2014 article on The Telegraph’s old website provides quick quotes from nine powerful women on how they dress. The short clips don’t provide much detail, but there are largely two threads that run seamlessly throughout most of the comments: 1) that how a woman dresses is essentially her armor, and 2) that the only real rule of dressing powerfully is wearing outfits that inspire confidence.

This You Beauty article makes the same point: wear whatever makes you feel confident. Along those lines, one of the quickest ways to lose power is to be fidgeting with a skirt that is too tight or too short: “Worrying about that stuff all day hijacks your brain.” Finally, one simple strategy for looking powerful is to dress in monochromatic outfits. It doesn’t have to be all black, but going with one color head to toe is a basic way to make yourself look put-together.

The Wall Street Journal makes a strong case for power dresses, a concept that does away with the masculine lady suits that force women to conform to style rules for men and conceal their femininity.

Much of our power has been taken from us by forcing us to focus on our appearance. We can reclaim that power by focusing on our appearance but changing our goal. We need not focus on being attractive; we can shift our perspective to being powerful.

We can do that by planning our appearances, by choosing our armor wisely.