pencil-skirted

English

Etymology

From pencil skirt +‎ -ed.

Adjective

pencil-skirted (not comparable)

1. Having a pencil skirt.
   • 1937 November 5, Vivice, “Peeps in Fashion's Window”, in Runcorn Weekly News and District Reporter, page three:

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

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

     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.

   • 1946 October 3, “Meyer Brothers”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 240, Paterson, N.J., page 20:

     More fun than sun in a mirror… pencil-skirted tunic suit dress a-sparkle with bright ‘gold’ nailheads.

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

     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.

2. Wearing a pencil skirt.
   • 1994 December 3, Michael Smith, “Backbites”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,526, section “Saturday Extra”, page 16:

     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.

   • 1999 January 15, “Toronto hostels filled with families and young people”, in The Edmonton Journal, page F9:

     Take away those chauffeurs, those gasoline coupons, those platoons of pencil-skirted, lozenge-spectacled assistants.

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

     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.

   • 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:

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