"daring outfit"

"Ms. Fletcher ... might have been a pretty woman, had she not been wearing a pair of hideous horn-rimmed glasses. She perpetually kept her hair up in a bun that was only slightly less tight than the dissatisfied line of her lips. She wore a simple white blouse und a black ankle-length skirt. For her, ist was a daring outfit - the shoes, after all, were maroon". Und jetzt raten, was die Dame von Beruf ist!

Aus: Brandon Sanderson: Alcatraz and the evil librarians. Scholastic Press 2007 - es gibt übrigens mittlerweile auch eine Fortsetzung "Alcatraz Versus The Scrivener's Bones".