Fashionable Working Women in Film

Photo by: Courtesy of Everett Collection

North by Northwest

"Ever kill anyone? Bet you could tease a man to death without even trying . . . so stop trying," says Cary Grant (who is being pursued by evil foreign agents who have mistaken him for someone else, or something) to the almost impossibly alluring Eva Marie Saint (a spy who seems to be the mistress of one of the mean foreign guys but who is actually working for the Feds, or

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Photo by: Courtesy of Everett Collection

North by Northwest

"Ever kill anyone? Bet you could tease a man to death without even trying . . . so stop trying," says Cary Grant (who is being pursued by evil foreign agents who have mistaken him for someone else, or something) to the almost impossibly alluring Eva Marie Saint (a spy who seems to be the mistress of one of the mean foreign guys but who is actually working for the Feds, or something). Though Alfred Hitchcock's film was made in 1959, Saint's narrow skirts, boatneck blouses, and one particular crimson cocktail dress are as suitable for scaling presidential heads on Mount Rushmore as they would be at a fall 2012 political convention.

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