The Ladies of Banking (and Law)

Your lovely coworker + trench coat = ?

We are looking at a new magazine called ForbesLife Executive Woman (Spring 2008 issue) — think Trader Monthly meets Lucky. It’s filled with portraits of executive women, many of whom work on Wall Street.

We thought some of our readers would especially appreciate a fashion spread and short bios of four “rainmakers” in raincoats (get it?) in the magazine. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to find that spread online, (a few stories are here), so you’ll have to check it out next time you’re at B&N.

There’s Anne-Marie Peterson, a VP of Leveraged Finance at Lehman Brothers in a stunning yellow Ralph Lauren trench; Tiffany Gallo, an Associate in Leveraged Finance at Citigroup and grad of Cornell (2003) in Sonia Rykiel; Christine Shim, an Equity Research Associate at Citi Investment Research looking glam in Burberry, and Hillary Schafer, Executive Director of Institutional Equities at UBS, chillin out in some YSL sunglasses channeling Ray Bans.

And for our lawyer lady friends out there, there is an entire separate feature on how women interpret “business casual” dress codes at some of the top law firms — very useful and something I think we will try to replicate here for the boys at BankersBall, by firm. For instance, Associates at Sullivan & Cromwell are typically found in “Ann Taylor skirt or pants suits. Max Mara and Elie Tahari are other appropriate labels,” while Partners at the same firm favor dresses and suits from Chanel, Brooks Brothers, Gucci, among others. Meanwhile, Davis Polk & Wardell junior staff favor J.Crew suits, but save their cash for weekend going out gear.

Go ladies, go!

3 Comment(s)

  1. On May 8, 2008, Lady in Finance said:

    Other than Max Mara, the designers they were listed wearing are so cliche. Women Industrialists are bit more creative than that in their biz war-drobe!

  2. On Jun 22, 2008, Corporette said:

    I read the feature with interest — was just gearing up my own blog on women’s conservative fashion. I liked the Forbes feature, but in general thought it was geared towards older women, who tend to either have personal shoppers or “safe” outfits that they wear ad nauseum. But it’s still a great start — it annoys me so much to read articles where editors suggest wearing denim trousers as a work basic. Um, not where I work!

  3. On Aug 26, 2008, Most Offensive said:

    How are the lawyer clothes that different from what women bankers wear? Everyone I know wears Tahari and Brooks…

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