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Putting on the style?
YOU have to take your hat off to cats and dogs. When warm weather arrives they behave with sense. They shed fur. This makes them feel more comfortable when they go out into the garden where they feel obliged to spend much of their working days hard at it lounging in the sun.
Curiously, women, by contrast, don't do this. When they go out they put on such items as closely tailored suits and shoes with heels as high as Salisbury Cathedral.
What must seem extraordinary to your average dog or cat is that women don't do this for comfort. They do it to look smart and stylish. It is only when they get back home, according to a survey, that they kick off that gear and don clothes they actually feel comfortable wearing. Weird!
What is also slightly odd is their apparent choice of casual clobber in the home. The favoured look, according to the survey, is that sported by a character from the old Harry Enfield show, Waynetta Slob.
Women at home, the survey suggests, like to don trackie bottoms even when they are not going to aerobics classes. They put on trainers even when they are not going for a run. And they pull on pyjamas when they are not going to bed.
The question is, if women feel more comfortable wearing this sort of apparel, why don't they wear it when they are out?
What unfair social pressures are put on women to squeeze themselves into fashion- able clothes that are so uncomfortable they discard them as soon as they get home?
Thank heavens that ever-sensible men are maintaining sensible standards of style and grooming both at work and at home.
After all, one doesn't develop that impeccable Rab C Nesbitt look without a great deal of personal care and attention.
6:04am Wednesday 7th May 2008
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