Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary… | 31 December 2005

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 31 December 2005

Q. Having been well entertained by the ‘pyjama gaping’ problems and solutions, may I briefly insert my neat response? Gentlemen should obtain comfortably large pairs of Directoire ladies’ knickers in acetate fabric. Discreet shops do have them. Carefully snip into the single thickness hem where elastic is gathered at the knee.

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