Ladies who lunch
Ladies who lunch is a phrase often used to describe well-off, well-dressed women who meet for social luncheons, usually during the working week. Typically, the women involved are married and non-working. Normally the lunch is in a high-class restaurant, but could also take place in a department store during a shopping trip. Sometimes the lunch takes place under the pretext of raising money for charity.
History
The phrase "ladies who lunch" was introduced in the January 19, 1970, issue of New York magazine by the writer Merle Rubine,"Anyone with a fair figure, ready cash, fashion savvy and a safecracker's nerve can buy the best that Fifth Avenue has to offer on Seventh Avenue at half the price. The girls at Condé Nast and Harper's Bazaar have known this for years. Likewise the ladies who lunch at Restaurant X, although they'd rather be banished from the banquette than admit they got their Beenes and Blasses on a bargain basis."
It was later popularized by a song of the same name in Stephen Sondheim's Company. The character Joanne, a rich, cynical, middle-aged woman, makes a drunken toast to her peer group in "The Ladies Who Lunch." Her song offers a sardonic toast to rich women, including herself, who fill their time with frivolous things like luncheons and parties.
Ladies who lunch (disambiguation)
Ladies who lunch is a phrase referring to a type of well-off, well-dressed women.
Ladies who lunch may also refer to:
Podcasts:
Ladies Who Lunch
ALBUMS
- Everybody's Happy Nowadays released: 1997
- Kims We Love released: 1995
- Mixed Drink No. 2 released:
- A Tribute to Flexi-Pop, Volume 3 released:
A Tribute to Flexi-Pop, Volume 3
- Cracked Mirror
- Cold as Ever
- That First Wild Kiss
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Don't Believe It's Over
- All Rights Reserved
- We Are So Glad
- New Girls / Neutrons
- If I'm Not a Killer
- Several Sunsets
- Raumkrank
- Gonhorrö
- Danse
- I Travel
- Thin Ice Door
- Sattelite to Russia
- Cardbord Lamb
- La Machine á Rêver
- Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win
- Bull in the Heather
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by Company Soundtrack
Ladies Who Lunch
by: Company SoundtrackJOANNE:
Here's to the ladies who lunch--
Everybody laugh.
Lounging in their caftans
And planning a brunch
On their own behalf.
Off to the gym,
Then to a fitting,
Claiming they're fat.
And looking grim,
'Cause they've been sitting
Choosing a hat.
Does anyone still wear a hat?
I'll drink to that.
And here's to the girls who play smart--
Aren't they a gas?
Rushing to their classes
In optical art,
Wishing it would pass.
Another long exhausting day,
Another thousand dollars,
A matinee, a Pinter play,
Perhaps a piece of Mahler's.
I'll drink to that.
And one for Mahler!
And here's to the girls who play wife--
Aren't they too much?
Keeping house but clutching
A copy of LIFE,
Just to keep in touch.
The ones who follow the rules,
And meet themselves at the schools,
Too busy to know that they're fools.
Aren't they a gem?
I'll drink to them!
Let's all drink to them!
And here's to the girls who just watch--
Aren't they the best?
When they get depressed,
It's a bottle of Scotch,
Plus a little jest.
Another chance to disapprove,
Another brilliant zinger,
Another reason not to move,
Another vodka stinger.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
I'll drink to that.
So here's to the girls on the go--
Everybody tries.
Look into their eyes,
And you'll see what they know:
Everybody dies.
A toast to that invincible bunch,
The dinosaurs surviving the crunch.
Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch--
Everybody rise!
Rise!
Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!
Rise!
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