Ah-Ha! Brilliant! Confirms my theory that âshoppingâ means different things to men and women.
I have a narrative to illustrate this.
Two women announce they are going shopping. Their men wish them a happy day. The women return hours later. The men ask if they had a good time.
âMarvellousâ
âWhat did you buy?â
âOh! We didnât buy anything âŚâ
In a Lidl catalogue
Jegging? A combo of jogging and legging, I sâpose. I must contact the OED.
Back to boxes âŚ
There are yet another three good old A-Saxon words for the same item. One - twit - has lost that meaning and morphed from an insult into an innocuous word for silly person.- ref the M.Pythonâs âUpper Class Twitsâ skit.
The other two have retained the insulting meaning whilst still referring to âa boxâ - twot and twat.
Jeans and leggings. Itâs a word in use in English too, though the actual clothing is like leggings with a bit more structure (button waiste/zip fly) rather than just being skin-tight stretchy jeans now.
I thought this might amuse you!
Whereâs Borat when you (donât) need him? 
Jeans and leggings, as sold in Marks and Spencer so not that new!
Jane, I had no idea. I live a very sheltered life. I do not cruise the womenâs clothing depts, esp the ones featuring âsmallsâ.
Thus I was suitably amazed when I became a deux with a g/f who bought stuff at Ann Summers and the like ⌠
And handily delivered in France as I have found to a relais point boutique near you called âMode er Charmeâ
Also do a good range of feather flips. For dusting.
Those things in front are, um, interesting, they are thong knickers disguised as roses, it says on them 
I think Iâd rather get a roseâŚ
Ah ha! Shows how much I donât know. 
My ostrich feather flip, used exclusively for actual dusting, lives in an enclosure quite similar. ( I was too busy not looking when I visited the shop/relais pick-up point to collect my M&S parcel. )
Of course we believe you Susannah. However a picture of you with the ostrich feather flip, âdustingâ might convince us. Weâd promise to ignore the stilettos, the bunny girl type outfit and the fishnets
That bloke looks disturbingly like Farage with a shaved head.
Must go to opticians, what I thought were bottles on shelf in background are absolutely not. Latex would keep one warm while dusting thoâ.
Hate to break it to you, but those arenât roses in the foreground either
FWIW I can quite see why youâd think they were bottles.
As one who used to wear latex gloves (before they were replaced by nitrile) it doesnât keep you warm. TBH itâs hard to imagine a material less âsexyâ, but I understand that there are a wide variety of tastes and preferences.
I was probably thinking of neoprene, like wetsuitsâŚNot an area I have experience in
Counter-intuitively, a neoprene wetsuit keeps you warm underwater not because of the neoprene itself (which is usually quite thin, 3-5mm) but because of the layer of water trapped between it and your skin, which initially of course is warmed by your body.
Water is quite a good insulator.
In very cold water divers use drysuits instead, which as the name implies are watertight.
