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Paulette Dorflaufer directs postulation successful Livingston, New Jersey. (Paola Chapdelaine/For The Washington Post)

Paulette Dorflaufer loves to formal up.

Her occupation arsenic a crossing defender starts astatine 7:15 a.m., but each greeting she wakes aboriginal to assemble her elegant outfit and use a overgarment of lipstick. In winter, she wears fur boots and full-length fur coats; successful outpouring and fall, shawls oregon capes — each topped with a bright-yellow reflective vest. She ever finishes the look with an ornamental hat, which she calls her “chapeau.”