In Competition No. 2365 you were invited to supply a piece, written in the style of a fashion editor, expressing enthusiasm for either see-through trousers for men or full plate armour for women.
Two confessions (not apologies). First, I lifted this comp from a Spectator of over 40 years ago, and a very good one it proved to be. Second, although one of my sons once trod the dogwalk? in Milan, I am no fashionisto?, and so Solomon-like I invited a Queen of Sheba to help me judge. On the see-through side, I enjoyed Josh Ekroy’s advice that ‘knees are now just as important as an erotic come-on as eyelashes are for women, and need as much make-up’, and on the armour side Brian Murdoch’s critical aside: ‘M&S do a well-made stainless-steel outfit, but it is a bit 14th-century.’
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