Margaret Thatcher may not be known for her fashion credentials, but her look certainly made a statement in Parliament.

That's why translating the Iron Lady to the big screen was always going to be tricky. Everything, from her pussybow blouses to her famous structured handbags, needed to be perfect for Meryl Streep's Thatcher to convince.

Luckily, The Iron Lady (in cinemas from tomorrow) captures Thatcher's style perfectly, as these sketches from costume designer Consolata Boyle show. Notching up Academy® and BAFTA nominations for her work on The Queen (in which she captured our monarch's style with aplomb), Boyle was an obvious choice for director Phyllida Lloyd, who said she had "an extraordinary vision for how to not just replicate but to make some poetic sense of the journey of her clothes". Scroll down to see just how she envisioned Thatcher's look.

Dressing the Iron Lady