pencil-skirted

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

1937 November 5, Vivice, “Peeps in Fashion's Window”, in Runcorn Weekly News and District Reporter, page three

The new short coats for the season of 1945-46 show up to sparkling advantage in bright jewels colors over a pencil-skirted suit in black or navy.

1945 August 30, “Fashions for a Colorful Autumn…”, in The Knoxville News-Sentinel, number 18,619, Knoxville, Tenn., page 3

Secondly, their volume also plays a part in creating new-season proportions, which essentially boil down to a larger top over a narrow bottom; a way of making a blouse and pencil-skirted outfit feel like it’s coming from 2011 rather than 1992.

2011 autumn/winter, Sarah Mower, “Front Row”, in Dots (The Sunday Telegraph), page 19

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.

1994 December 3, Michael Smith, “Backbites”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,526, section “Saturday Extra”, page 16

Today, though, the sight of a pencil-skirted, high-heeled secretary is fairly uncommon – a hard day spent hot-desking and video-conferencing is best faced in comfortable trousers and a pair of flat pumps, after all – but that very archetype was rather sweetly re-enacted by Maggie Gyllenhaal last year in Secretary.

2003 November 20, Susie Rushton, “The skirt that is sex on legs”, in The Independent, number 5,333, page 48

Plus, we keep having film noir fantasies about men in fedoras and their dangerous pencil-skirted gals downing sidecars.

2004 October 20, Amina Akhtar, “London calling: New Brit pub The Globe’s got what ales you”, in Redeye (Chicago Tribune), section “Motel”, page 25