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Special rules apply for women in the recruiting game. Women should not wear a pantsuit, says Gloria J. Petersen, president of Global Protocol, Inc. Instead, she says they should wear a skirt that grazes the top of the knees and nude pantyhose...
...written for the New Yorker since 1945 and should be in The Guinness Book of World Records for conducting the longest office romance, was in town last week, seated at her regular table in her favorite Manhattan restaurant, La Caravelle, where she wore a dark green Armani pantsuit, drank San Pellegrino water and filled us in on reaction to her new book, Here but Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and the New Yorker (Random House; 240 pages; $25), which has had most of the New York literary world buzzing for the past several weeks...
...think you've got that $75000 a year consulting job in the bag? Not with that tie, honey. Pink paisley is out. Gone. And so are red, green, yellow, and orange. Double breasted suit? Too hip. Pantsuit? Too feminist. Nude pantyhose? Too secretarial. Loafers? Come on, boys and girls, get real. Just because you've got your resume filled to the brim, this is no time to slack off on interview apparel...
...black-market-document procurement all the more persuasive. The California Democrat decided to find out for herself just how easy it would be to get a fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake IDs were hers for the asking. "They would have cost anywhere from...
...abounds with so many notions about shape and fabric that it bursts open like a just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking, in its mad dappling of colors, like a loft painter's drop cloth. "Everything is so much the couture...