Phil's Ramblings » clothes

We're married!

Phil — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:53:30 +0000

Cerys and I were married in a small ceremony at Winchester Register Office yesterday, followed by lunch at the excellent Water Margin restaurant in North Baddesley.

Weddings are quite stressful, especially if you’re one of the two main participants and you’re organising the whole thing between you. Getting married in secret away from home and telling [...]

Les femmes n’ai pas seulement une dimension…

Phil — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:50:59 +0000

In a comment on Women are not 1-dimensional… Michael wrote:

you go from needing maybe seven different sizes (even numbers 8-20) to… Well, with just four variations in each dimension that’s 4,096 different sizes

And he is of course correct.

What I was thinking of was something like this, only much less expensive. The linked system [...]

Women are not 1-dimensional…

Phil — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:38:48 +0000

…so why do their clothes assume they are?

Men’s trousers are 2-dimensional: waist and inside-leg. Men’s shirts are 3-dimensional: collar, chest and arm-length.

Since women have a more complex topology you might expect their clothing to vary in more dimensions, but for some reason this is not the case. Women’s clothing typically varies only in one dimension, the [...]