Whereas the slinky young waitresses who served gold members all were topless, for example, in the inner sanctum of platinum members the girls instead were bottomless. Each was garbed in what might have been termed a travesty of plain white shirt and burgundy tie which was worn in the “silver” or semi-public area and abandoned in the “gold” area, but it was a travesty only. Oh, there was a crisp starched collar, certainly, and long sleeves with buttoned cuffs, but the back of the tapered shirt ended just short of the naked waist, and in front it was cut back outrageously, slanting sharply aside just below the knot of the tie to bare the breasts and torso, then descending vertically and coming together again only at the single, mockingly prim button just above the bowl of the navel.
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