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Putting on the Ritz
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12091 |
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LIFE
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12 / 1987 |
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Pati Lowell
Pati Lowell is a fashion writer for the Washington Times. |
The fantasy of dressing up...sheer stockings, a glamorous gown, brilliant gems, a sensuous fur....The workaday woman is transformed into a movie star, a princess.
Dressing up makes a woman feel wonderful - a magic mood that works on her escort and on those who see her radiance.
Whether it's for cocktails at eight or a midnight supper, most women relish the opportunity to leave behind the sensible shoes and notched collars of nine to five in order to don a little drama after sunset. "Women dress so uniformly for work that often a more daring side of ourselves gets lost because we're so occupied with portraying a professional image. Even when women dress for the office Christmas party they still have to be aware that they're on view to their bosses and are setting an example. That feeling of dressing up and cutting loose is often missing.
"I met a woman a while ago in one of our seminars, and she was really one of the most well put-together professionals I've seen," continues Bixler, whose Atlanta based company caters to corporate clients like IBM and MCI Telecommunications.
"Well, I ran into her a few weeks later at a cocktail party and she had transformed herself into this very 'dishy' blond bombshell type that was totally opposite from her daytime image. Once I realized who she was, she just shrugged her shoulders, almost apologetically, and said that she had so few opportunities to dress up that she went all out whenever she could."
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