What I find really weird about male models is the perfectly smooth, tucked-up look of their clothes. Not a rumple, wrinkle or roll anywhere, as if they were poured into the ensemble and then Simonized.

And then one day I found myself helping out in the dressing room at a charity fashion show. Ya know what? Every garment is indeed pulled taut and then pinned in place to stay that way.

That weird expression they all have comes from the terror they all feel at the very real prospect of being stabbed at random.

Why don't female models look equally strange? That's easy. Discomfort is the norm for women's clothes, especially shoes and underwear, and female models are also habituated to the misery of maintaining a size 0 figure. The poor creatures are used to the abuse.

All in all, modelling has to be the worst way of making a living that does not involve using digging implements to move excrement.