New Yorkers think nothing of turning up at a critical meeting in an ankle-length Driza-Bone coat, bright-yellow sou'wester and a plastic head scarf.

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At the Mercedes, the back door on the far side swung open and a frail woman dressed in an ankle-length cloth coat and peasant galoshes stumbled from the car.

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He certainly looked like a woman: a black dress, no coat, fish-net stockings, ankle boots, shoulder-length wavy hair.

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She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a grey waist-length coat with brown buttons and black ankle boots.

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They will have plenty to swoon over here: breezy ankle length dresses in printed silk, tweed shorts-suits and wool cloaks.

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