Electronics Weekly
There are those who worry about being seen in the same piece of clothing twice. To me this is aberrational albeit unignorable.
What is even more ununderstandable are those people who buy clothes they never wear.
This is more common than you’d think and varies from country to country with the UK being No.1 at indulging in this curious practice.
29% of British female respondents to a Statista Consumer Insight survey said they often bought clothes they never wear.
In China only 9% of female respondents said they often bought clothes they never wear.
In the US, 21% of women and 15% of men admitted to often buying clothes they never wear.
I seem to remember that it used to be appropriate among the male upper levels to wear clothes, and shoes, inherited from their fathers
Just as un-understandable is why an esteemed member of His Majesty’s press hasn’t put a hyphen in ‘ununderstandable’ 🙂
“OED’s earliest evidence for ununderstandable is from before 1631, in the writing of John Donne.” What’s good enough for the OED and John Donne is good enough for this humble scribbler.
That’s understandable.
The two “un”s cancel each other out, making the word “derstandable”.
Neil, 62 years old, former “gruntled” engineer.
Well I always suspected Oxford graduates as being unable to write properly, hence why so many end up as politicians, civil servants and other wasters.
How very wise zeitghost, you might have been mistaken for a foreigner
Everything else gets worn until it falls apart.
I have a waxed jacket that approaches the level of wear of the one belonging to the King.
Oddly it’s in worse condition than the one I wear when enjoying a nice bonfire.
Yup. That beige 3 piece suit I bought in 1979 hasn’t had a lot of wear recently.
I’m still waiting for flared trousers and wide lapels to come back into fashion.
Then I recall one jacket that I wore once, someone remarked on how smart it looked & I never wore it again.