nourishing obscurity

Le figaro discute une question la plus importante:

Seuls 15 % des hommes déclarent acheter des ensembles de lingerie féminine, selon une étude TNS Worldpanel, les plus friands de ce type d’achats étant âgés de 25 à 49 ans.  En revanche, les femmes achètent sans hésiter en boutique ou sur le Net les caleçons, boxers, shorties et autres slips des messieurs. Quelle que soit la tranche d’âge de ces derniers. En 2008, 29,4 % de la lingerie masculine était ainsi achetée par des femmes.

Par ailleurs:

Parmi les nouveautés du salon figurent des soutiens-gorge qui chauffent au contact de la peau, des petites culottes aux protéines de lait censées favoriser l’hydratation de la peau ou encore, dans un registre fort peu sexy, un soutien-gorge anti-rides à porter la nuit.

In a nutshell, the lads are a bit reticent to buy the lasses lingerie but the lasses have no hesitation the other way.

This says much about the things men and women zero in on.  In Casino Royale, the following conversation took place:

Bond:  I have a dinner jacket.

Vesper:  There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets.  This is the latter.

Bond:  It’s tailored.

Vesper:  I sized you up the moment I met you.

Tis true – the girls do do that quite well.  On the other hand, I knew all my gf’s sizes and tried to steer her towards styles I knew she could wear, given her size and shape.  This resulted in me being dragged along to the shops every day so it was a case of acting dumb from then on.

At Debenhams, Scarborough, one English lady and one French dressed me from the only things they could find acceptable and the match of the tie and the outfit turned out inspired.  How they knew that some discordant elements [to me] were quite “cordant’ after all beat me.  How they found these so quickly also amazed me.

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