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Love is... a pair of really good jeans
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-02-07 10:58
NEW YORK - For most women, the choice between sex and a new wardrobe is
simple -- they go for the clothes.
A woman walks past advertisements for designer clothes inside a shopping
mall in Beijing December 13, 2006. Women on average say they would be
willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel,
with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for
new duds, according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S.
cities. [Reuters]
Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months
for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from
sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey
of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities.
Sixty-one percent of women polled said it would be worse to lose their
favorite article of clothing than give up sex for a month.
"Some people say clothes make the man, but the right clothes can even
replace him," fashion designer, stylist and TV personality Carson
Kressley from the reality TV show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" said
in a statement accompanying the poll.
The study also suggested that clothes often wear better than
relationships.
The average woman between 18 and 54 years of age has hung on to her
favorite article of clothing for 12 and a half years, a year longer than
she's held on to her longest relationship.
Almost three-quarters of respondents, or 70 percent, also said they
believed in love at first sight when it came to finding the perfect
article of clothing, while only 54 percent of women were as confident in
spotting the right man.
Nearly half of the women, or 48 percent, taking part in the survey by
consumer products giant Unilever said their favorite article of clothing
was more reliable than their man in giving them confidence and making
them feel sexy.
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