Only six days behind now... Neil teased me briefly with the idea he might go for the trousers:
Nothing wrong with red, though I prefer black, brown or grey. Everything wrong with leather, since it comes from dead animals and is bloody heavy and uncomfortable.
Quite, that's why I wear PVC trousers at conventions - they can get a bit sweaty but are quite comfortable apart from that. Also good for watching cricket on a showery day (you can wipe the rain off, instead of getting soaked with no means of changing into something dry). Wish I could find some good non-leather winter shoes. In the early 20th century my great-aunt Lily, the original vegetarian Monkhouse, wore shoes made of vegetable fibres, but they fell apart. I have seen fake leather shoes, but they were hideous. And it's tricky enough to find shoes I can stand in any material given that my feet are size three and a half (that's something like 36 or 37 European).
So, Neil, can we look forward to you in red PVC trousers?
ObB7 - we've discussed before, haven't we, whether it was really leather or a fake (I'm talking the real, Platonic version of the clothes, not the ones the actors wore to represent them).
Harriet