Today I came across (as it were) a prime example of the 'Clapham Cutie'. A CC is usually single, with brown hair which she likes to keep quite short (but not so short that she is mistaken for one of the numerous Clapham Lipstick Lesbians). She wears good, trad, slightly girly clothes to work (usually in some kind of PR capacity or perhaps as an estate agent) bought from Jigsaw, Mango and Zara. Lots of skirts and shirts from Thomas Pink. Trousers on Fridays and when winter begins. At weekends she wears Monsoon or Gap if going out to the country for a walk or a house-party. Otherwise she has a secret stash of M&S and H&M which she wears about the flat. She has no religion. Some of her old schoolfriends go to HTB or St Mark's Battersea but she finds all that arm waving and guitar playing too embarassing. She likes High Church stuff when she goes at Christmas and Easter (especially the music and the incense) and finds the priest really funny but she was told by a friend that all the men there are gay and if there is one thing the Clapham Cutie wants it is a man (she already has a plethora of gay male friends) so she stays away. Eventually she will marry and end up in Wandsworth or perhaps move out to the suburbs and end up wearing a mixture of Country Casuals and Gap. She would love to be a ladette or experiance a secret lesbian fling but can't.

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Originally posted by Cosmo:
And you say that you will probably go to Westcott House rather than Staggers or Mirfield you little bi-curious you? Hmmm....
Cosmo

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Originally posted by Cosmo:
[QB] She wears good, trad, slightly girly clothes to work (usually in some kind of PR capacity or perhaps as an estate agent) bought from Jigsaw, Mango and Zara.[QB]

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I do believe the good Father has been reading rather too extensively in the glossy bits of the Sunday Times.

But adding these Clapham observations to the Essex ones (above) I believe our Fr Cosmo has a second career in somcial commentary or personal shopping.