Edward
Bartender
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I bought a beautiful houndstooth Harris tweed jacket on ebay last year, and when it arrived I found it was NOS, and fit me perfectly - but the buttons were on the wrong side. I must have worn it to work five or six times and no one commented. Then again, I sometimes think that someone could walk through downtown with an arrow through his head and no one would notice.
I'm reminded of reading about a psychological experiment maybe twenty five years ago, where participants - young, hip undergraduates - were sent around an art gallery wearing a Barry Manilow t-shirt. They were all chosen as people who would be mortified by that, and all reported a sense that everyone was staring at them and it was embarassing. When the group of persons stood around in the gallery were questioned afterwards, only a tiny proportion had evne noticed the embarassing t-shirts.