The birthright of his sex?
Dec. 10th, 2023 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe visited Marks & Spencer to buy a pair of slippers for durham_rambler: this was urgent, because he was wandering about the house, up and down stairs, with the soles flapping off.
But while we were there, I wanted to look for a new winter pullover. It's winter, this is what I wear, and my current collectioin is aging - to the point that evendurham_rambler has noticed the holes in one old favourite.
Women's knitwear is between the entrance of M&S and the stairs, so we started there. It was very dispiriting: there was a wide choice of jumpers in all shades of beige. Light beige, dark beige, creamy beigr, greyish beige, and just for variety some plain cream. Not plain grey, that must have been last year. I tried on one that was almosr not beige, and almost my size, but couldn't bring myseld to buy it.
So we went upstairs to menswear, and slippers, and there was the knitwear for men: blue, green, purple, a glowing dark orange ... WTF, Marks? And in a choice of [ahem] generous sizes, too.
I bought two jumpers: one purple ribbed, one an irresistible blue green. The earworm was free.
durham_rambler: this was urgent, because he was wandering about the house, up and down stairs, with the soles flapping off.But while we were there, I wanted to look for a new winter pullover. It's winter, this is what I wear, and my current collectioin is aging - to the point that even
durham_rambler has noticed the holes in one old favourite. Women's knitwear is between the entrance of M&S and the stairs, so we started there. It was very dispiriting: there was a wide choice of jumpers in all shades of beige. Light beige, dark beige, creamy beigr, greyish beige, and just for variety some plain cream. Not plain grey, that must have been last year. I tried on one that was almosr not beige, and almost my size, but couldn't bring myseld to buy it.
So we went upstairs to menswear, and slippers, and there was the knitwear for men: blue, green, purple, a glowing dark orange ... WTF, Marks? And in a choice of [ahem] generous sizes, too.
I would just like to say that it is my conviction
That longer hair and other flamboyant affectations
Of appearance are nothing more
Than the male's emergence from his drab camoflage
Into the gaudy plumage
Which is the birthright of his sex...
I bought two jumpers: one purple ribbed, one an irresistible blue green. The earworm was free.
