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Article: Is it some sort of identity crisis? Why else would a grown man want to festoon his person with the alphabet?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 2, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Melanie Eastwick had nametapes in her knickers. No one knew
why. Quite what picture her mother had formed of the rough and
tumble of kindergarten life was never spelled out but, whatever
happened, Deirdre was prepared. The same mystery surrounds the
monogramming habit. What do people imagine is going to happen to
their pillow cases? Even for the tiny handful of starch queens who
send their laundry out, the monogram serves no practical function:
laundries mark dirty linen with their own system of cabalistic
signs: your button-downs are not being sorted by the
any-three-initials you paid pounds 3.50 to have stitched on to the
breast pocket.
He climbs out of his BMW (numberplate ESN 1) ...