RUNWAY TO REALITY : Today’s Hot Look: Stirrups on a Shoestring

Working girls will have to save their paychecks to wear Giorgio Armani’s Italian dressing for success this fall. The extra long melton jacket is $1,460. It is paired with the hottest look of the season--stirrup pants, here in chamois colored cotton/wool for $260. Armani’s folk print silk scarf is $175, the gray suede gloves are $130 and the pointy-toe shoe boots in brown suede are $350. He tops it off with a melton wool toque for $250. Top to bottom, it’s $2,625 worth of designer style.

Everything is available at the Giorgio Armani boutique in Beverly Hills.

Working girls on a shoestring will love the Limited’s version of the same look. Limited’s Armani look-alike jacket is lightweight rayon gabardine, long on style and short on price at $140. Their stretch acrylic knit stirrup pants are an affordable $44 (available in a rainbow of colors). You can add their geometric rayon challis blouse; it’s only $44. All from the Limited in the Beverly Center in Los Angeles.

If you want the whole look, here’s what to add: a $125 velvet toque designed by Kokin from Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills, brown pigskin gloves, $36, from the J. Crew catalogue and The Broadway’s great shoe boot for $59, bringing this grand total to $448.