Q. What do you do when you are so cold at a party that you cannot enjoy it? At a recent 21st in Hampshire the theme was Summer of Love so I was in a beaded catsuit and my friends were in cotton minidresses with bandanas and thin velvet coats. But the theme Arctic Explorers would have been more appropriate. There were heaters in the marquee but they only made a difference if you stood in front of them and only one person at a time could do so.
The food and music were brilliant but all we could think about was how cold we were. Our host was cold herself but she kept the house locked up.
— B.G., London SW3
A. Nothing like this should happen if a proper party planner is employed. Bentleys says, ‘Women hate the cold and often arrive not wearing very much whereas men are dressed in twill dinner jackets.
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