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    Fashionable Working Women in Film

    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue

    Summer may be ending, which is always a little sad, but on the other hand the new season, so exciting the French even have a special word for it-le rentrée-is just around the corner. In the United States, this time of the year is heralded by Labor Day, a holiday meant to celebrate working women (and, OK, men too) in all their glory. To mark the first week in September, we thought it would be fun! educational! edifying! to see how our chicest cinematic sisters dress for a day on the job.

    And here is what we found: At least in the movies, certain professions-espionage prominent among them-offer the opportunity to parade around in the most stylish outfits. Other careers rank high in our survey too: bohemian-bookstore clerk turned supermodel, viciously amoral TV executive, and even kleptomaniac clerk. Here, we pay Labor Day homage to some of the most fashionable women in American film history:

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      Models are discovered in so many ways-shopping in malls with their high school pals; posting YouTube videos-or in the case of the winsome, lanky bohemian bookstore clerk Audrey Hepburn, catching the eye of the eminent fashion photographer Fred Astaire (playing a ringer for Richard Avedon). By the end of the film, Hepburn is prancing around in Givenchy ball gowns, but we love her best in

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      Funny Face

      Models are discovered in so many ways-shopping in malls with their high school pals; posting YouTube videos-or in the case of the winsome, lanky bohemian bookstore clerk Audrey Hepburn, catching the eye of the eminent fashion photographer Fred Astaire (playing a ringer for Richard Avedon). By the end of the film, Hepburn is prancing around in Givenchy ball gowns, but we love her best in her narrow black trousers, black pullover, and flat black shoes, the perfect incarnation of mid-century beatnik grace.

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