Maintaining your dignity

Oct 13 2008 Jackie Violet

Maintaining your dignity

HANDS up all those who, when their dream date has turned up in his low slung drop dead gorgeous sports car, have then thrown every ounce of dignity out of the window by giving him too much of an eyeful before the date has even started?

How you wish the ground could simply open up and swallow you. As for him, well all the suspense pondering over whether you shop at Janet Reger or M&S has clearly left him deflated.

Well, help is at hand thanks to those marvellous girls at Shielas' Wheels, the insurance company which specialises in providing cover for women motorists.

Apparently 64 per cent of females admit to accidentally 'flashing' as they get out of a car. So Sheilas' Wheels alongside design experts Gusto, have come up with a cunning new in-car device designed to protect our modesty, the Exi-quette Car Curtain.

You can even make it yourself by purchasing 750mm X 650mm of your favourite material, some elastic, two window sucker's, a hook and eye and four coloured cloths pegs.

In a nutshell, hem up one side and slide the elastic through. The material will hang down like a shower curtain. Tie the suckers to the elastic but make sure you check the elastic will reach from the car's front window to the rear window otherwise you will still be exposed. Use the hook and eye to open and close the curtains then place the pegs at the bottom of the curtain to give weight in case a gust of wind unexpectedly blows up.

Hey presto! Your very own 'Modesty Protector'.

How impressed will your date be now as you so elegantly step out of his pride and joy? I am not too sure actually. Probably more bemused confused and questioning his mentality over what exactly attracted him to you in the first place.

We then encounter another problem. What do we do with our Exi- quette Car Curtain after we have so gracefully stepped out of the car? I guess, as it will not fit into our generous handbags, it must stay in the car. Does this hunk of a man really want a bright pink flowery bit of curtain thrown over his sports seat for passer by's to see? I think not.

There is another way ladies. Simply keep your legs glued together at all times. After all, it is the first date!