Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary… | 22 April 2006

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 22 April 2006

Q. I work in a City office, staffed mainly by young, trendy middle-class males, most of whom like to sport the silly fashion of trousers almost dropping off, exposing vast expanses of undergarments, in some cases almost bare buttocks! We girls don’t have a problem with this, but are disgusted by one young man who is obviously wearing the same underpants for several days, in fact almost two weeks — not a pretty sight.

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