A couple of weeks ago I happened to be in M & S ( Marks and Spencer - popular good quality clothing store for the English middle-aged, middle-class), and spied a special offer on men's cotton polo shirts. Three for the price of two! An offer previously unknown at M&S in the foodhall, let alone on clothing. In thrall to such an unbelievable bargain, (now no more according to the website) I spent about twenty minutes carefully looking through the display to find three shirts of the correct size for Husband, and importantly, of appropriate colour ways to suit summer excursions and lifestyle for both in England and France. ( I take these things seriously...) So, £30 paid happily into the M&S coffers. Three fab shirts for £10 each. Result! Shareholders you can also celebrate. Well, anyway - Husband was delighted with my choice and has worn one shirt of a particularly flattering shade of sky blue off and on almost ever since.
So far, so good, so normal, (in my domestic life).
Then last Saturday we were out shopping together (aaah) in the town centre, and we passed a charity stall piled high with paperback books - ooh our favourite! Stopping a while to browse the titles, I suddenly realised Husband had moved to look through the rack of donated clothes. As I deal in vintage fashion and textiles, I thought he had spotted a designer label among the droopy items hanging on the rail. Seeing me approach, he held up a stripey polo shirt. "It's my size!" he whispered triumphally. Er, yes it was indubitably his size ( tall and handsome), and furthermore rather nice stripey colours. Quite classic - very French, sipping wine in a harbour bar style etc. So he bought it. 50p, thank you very much.
Is it time to let him do his own clothes shopping?
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So I learned the cardinal rule - clothes shopping? Take a woman! Let her decide as she'll have a far better idea than me on what fits, how it looks, how it goes with other stuff and whether it is extortionately priced or not.
My most recent ex (that sounds bad doesn't it?) taught me to do these things. I can now go into a shop and buy something that fits all the required criteria - providing of course, that it's a black shirt. I'm still working on the rest. :o)
Do many wives routinely buy clothes for their husbands? Do many husbands routinely expect their wives to buy their clothes? Me, not only would my wife never have allowed such an expectation, I'd never have allowed her to do it in the first place. uhhhh, maybe "allowed" is an un-PC term, but anyway ...
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)