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OVERDRESSED FOR SUCCESS? ?What if a young associate dresses better than the partners? That question?

By Glenn Reynolds

OVERDRESSED FOR SUCCESS? “What if a young associate dresses better than the partners? That question was obliquely posed on Corporette.com, a fashion blog for professional women. In a recent post, a summer associate at a big firm in Singapore asks whether she should carry her Birkin to work. (For those who are too embarrassed to ask, a Birkin is an Hermes bag that’s become an uber-status symbol; the price starts close to $10,000.)”

Should the answer be influenced by the fact that, although hideously expensive, the bag is also really ugly?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).