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CUBICLE QUEEN (N.)‘kyoo-bi-kul-‘kween   One who overdresses and/or wears too much makeup at the office. Usage: Carrie  put great thought into how she dressed for work, matching her purse to her shoes and her outfit to her lipstick. She didn’t notice that other staffers wore jeans and Cheenos and kept a drabber profile. Neither did her colleague Rainer—who dressed head to toe in Barneys and Marc Jacobs. Their obvious fashion-consciousness made both of them  known on the floor as cubicle queens.  Text ©Liesl Schillinger, Sept. 16, 2009  Image © Elizabeth Zechel  Aug. 29, 2011

CUBICLE QUEEN (N.)‘kyoo-bi-kul-‘kween   One who overdresses and/or wears too much makeup at the office. Usage: Carrie  put great thought into how she dressed for work, matching her purse to her shoes and her outfit to her lipstick. She didn’t notice that other staffers wore jeans and Cheenos and kept a drabber profile. Neither did her colleague Rainer—who dressed head to toe in Barneys and Marc Jacobs. Their obvious fashion-consciousness made both of them  known on the floor as cubicle queens. 

Text ©Liesl Schillinger, Sept. 16, 2009  Image © Elizabeth Zechel  Aug. 29, 2011

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