pencil-skirted

High hats easily fit in with high necks, slim sleeves, pencil-skirted suits, straight box coats, long gloves and higher shoes.

Anyway, G. Peck lifted the quality of 1959 South Yarra, with its population of retired colonels, their blue-rinsed ladies and woolly-coated small dogs, the smart young narrow-lapelled, broad-minded advertising executives, the pencil-skirted, stiletto-heeled secretaries tok-tokking along the pavements.