By Jonathon Soroff
They might be ladies who lunch, but they were all business when it came to helping women transition back into the workforce at the annual Dress for Success luncheon, held at the InterContinental Boston.
Among the high-powered women (and a sprinkling of men) on hand were former first lady Angela Menino and professor Tom, Channel 5 honorees Karen Holmes Ward, Susan Wornick, Shayna Seymour and Kimberly Bookman with station GM Bill Fine and his gorgeous wife, Gail, the soignée Jacqui Budd and her other half, Wayne, retail fairy godmother Annette Goubeaux, marketing guru Joan Jolley, board member Denise Leyhe, bootlegger Catherine Stanton Schiff, the incomparable Joanne Jaxtimer, fashion plate Bennie Wiley and her legal eagle husband, Flash, media magnate Julie Kahn, disarmingly charming Brit Mathew Westcott and one woman wearing a gorgeous suit who said, “Want to know my dirty little fashion secret? QVC.”
Lunch was delicious and the speaking program blessedly brief. Even the live auction, which raised beaucoup dinero, was over before the coffee was cold, and everyone was out of there precisely on time—a welcome rarity on the charity circuit.
Meanwhile, the award for the snarkiest remark went to the person who inspected another guest in an outfit that was somewhat revealing for daytime and said, “She must have misread the invitation to say ‘Dress for some sex.’”
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