Menswear going pear-shaped to suit customers
Women's body shapes have long been scrutinised and categorised - the apple, the bell, the cello - and now men can enjoy the same classification. A poll, carried out by menswear retailer Jacamo, identified the seven shapes that represent the changing figure of the British male. They include the pear (a little bit larger around the middle), the cucumber (straight up and down with no extra weight), the tomato (slightly chubby all over), the brick (broad all over), the nacho (broad shoulders and slim waist), the string bean (very skinny and lean) and the snowman (rounded around the stomach and chest creating a figure-of-eight-like shape) Almost half of men identify themselves as pear-shaped, 15 per cent as a cucumber, 10 per cent are tomatoes, 5 per cent are nachos but only 4 per cent describe themselves as a string bean or a snowman.
Unitary Plan hides steamy book
Library manager Helen Woodhouse writes: "While discussion around the Unitary Plan has been heated at times, we discovered some rather hot reading under the Unitary Plan: an erotic novel which someone was reading in Takapuna Library and hoped would be safely hidden from other readers."
Low-flying broomsticks
