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    Comfort zone

    Dec 23, 2020 3 minutes

    AND SO FAREWELL, then, 2020, the year in which the human race found it was not so much over dressing as over life itself. People have purchased two items of clothing during the last 12 months: sweatpants and pyjamas.

    Accordingly, a national joggingbottom shortage has been declared, the chief executive of online giant Asos predicting this crisis will continue until spring. Meanwhile, Google reports an 110 per cent rise in pyjama searches since the beginning of lockdown II, with

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