Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunching Uptown. In most matters of dress, few companies are more conservative than those in finance and insurance. At Chicago's Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That...
Young executives at Boston's Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. sometimes show up for work in sport coats, occasionally even in turtlenecks. "But if they want to become a boss," says one vice president, "they had better dress like the boss does, which means white shirt, dark suit, dark shoes and socks and a conservative tie." Similar ground rules apply in the automobile industry. "I saw someone in a yellow-and-green-plaid sport coat walking through the lobby," says a General Motors Corp. executive. "He was probably a summer replacement...
People working for communications and science-oriented companies, by contrast, usually dress with more of a flourish, especially if they hold down creative jobs. Like other women at Manhattan's freewheeling Jack Tinker ad agency, Commercial Producer Magi Durham likes to wear bell-bottomed trousers and men's sport shirts to the office. Her bearded husband Guy, associate creative director of Daniel & Charles ad agency, sometimes goes to work in blue jeans, other times in Edwardian suits and wide, polka-dot ties. Says Magi admiringly: "He swings on two lengths of the pendulum...
...been in the record business for eight years, and I've never worn a shirt and tie." Yet even the entertainment industry has its stuffier side, proving that variations in dress depend largely on what image a company is trying to project. A case in point is MCA, Inc., a film producer and recording company whose new aluminum-and-glass building in Universal City has more than its share of kookily attired production and clerical workers. Still, as one aide puts it, President Lew R. Wasserman is determined to "make the company look like a solid business operation...
...display of color. Audran, coming out into the open, crosses the barriers Chris has established between his lives, destroying forever his success as a hidden prime mover. The lush blues we identify with Christine and, we realize in retrospect, with the dead Paola, are disrupted by Audran's red dress, then by the blackness of the stocking with which Christine and the other girls are strangled. The violence of the deed is muted by the awesome lushness of the images, textures of decor which make murder a forbidden ritual of the insane. Paul's awakening to the knowledge that...