The Ultimate Accessory

These days, the hippest cradle snatcher seems to want more than a companion who can pass for her son: she wants a companion who'll pass for her son's school janitor, as the service professions become more and more of a recruiting field for prole-chic women on the make. Ideally, the baby boyfriend is a waiter, construction worker, or bagel-maker— fabulous for setting off her own, high-powered, high-profile life-style. Apart from vindicating the old hormone-compatibility theory, the nineties boy toy is darling to tote around town, particularly when in work gear: nothing funks up a Chanel suit like a food-stained waiter's apron, floury hands, or a pair of Timberland boots and a hard hat caked with cement.

C.D'S.