Ladies who lunch

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Ladies who lunch is a phrase to describe slim, well-off, old-money, well-dressed women who meet for lunch socially, normally during the working week. Typically, the women involved are married and non-working. Normally the lunch is in a restaurant, perhaps in a department store during shopping. Sometimes there is the pretext of raising money for charity. In India they are popularly called Kitty Parties where a group of women meet for lunch and pool in large amounts of money to raffle off to one lucky lady every time.^{[citation needed]}

The phrase was popularized by a song in Stephen Sondheim's Company.

The ABC television series Desperate Housewives featured an episode "The Ladies Who Lunch". The show traditionally names episodes after songs by Stephen Sondheim. It was originally aired as Episode 16 on March 27, 2005.

[edit] External links

• "Ladies who lunch serve up charity": China Daily article on expatriate wives.