Gifts for Women – Can a sane man chance it

Wrong. You’ve just entered the Gift Minefield. Flowers? Too cliché. Perfume? Wrong scent - instant disaster. Jewellery? Wrong style - ‘Do you even know me?’ couch duty. You should avoid buying clothes, but not because women don't like clothes. Men buying women’s clothes is like trying to play darts blindfolded, in a sandstorm, while the dartboard is moving. The only winning move is not to play. The problem is sizes.

Women’s clothing sizes are like a secret code written by a committee of lunatics. You pick up a dress and the tag says ‘Size 46.’ Forty-six what? Inches? Centimetres? Kilometres? You could measure that dress with every known scientific instrument—micrometer, laser scanner, particle accelerator—and you would never find any dimension that is 46 of anything.