Her dark blue dress with that mimsyish white Peter Pan collar made her look a little bit schoolgirlish, a little bit Amish and a lot – as Private Eye's brilliant cover last week emphasised – like a character in The Crucible.
In November, the Simon & Schuster editor spent three weeks at the White House, working intensively to expand and refine the material with the aides and with Clinton, who filled yellow legal pads with incorrigibly wonky prose, in "round, schoolgirlish handwriting," the editor told me.
"I remember her being -- I don't want to say infatuated, because it sounds too schoolgirlish -- but she was taken with him," Colleen Schmidt, a close friend of Ms. Lee, told The New York Times in 2010.
They are dispatched to handle gang warfare, drug dealing and the assaults and murders that often, in prison life, seem to result from schoolgirlish disputes.
"I remember her being — I don't want to say infatuated, because it sounds too schoolgirlish — but she was taken with him," Ms. Schmidt said.
There were also cheerleading references in the box-pleated skirts and schoolgirlish coats, now freckled with colored stones and other Prada details that keep you engaged.
The barely-there monochromatic result felt schoolgirlish.
Lindsay Lohan's all-white dress and schoolgirlish ponytail was a particularly bold attempt at cleaning up a besmirched image.
The novel's denouement proves the cynical middle-class characters right: once the schoolgirlish front comes off, Betty is exposed as a vicious little nympho, a bad 'un just like her mother.
While suffering Mimi's schoolgirlish affections ("Morr-ees! Morr-ees!" she cries incessantly), he tricks her family into thinking she has been kidnapped and demands a ransom.
The shoes are sexy, Ms. Rowley said, "but a Lolita sexy: there's something schoolgirlish about the roundedness, but it's sexy anyway".
