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Radio 4,03 Apr 2015,10 mins

Mankle Image Crisis

A Point of View

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Howard Jacobson thinks the current focus of male fashion on the ankle region or "mankle", revealed by the trousers of skimpily cut suits, shows men are suffering from a self-image crisis. "It would be a brave person who argued that what we wear counts for more than what we say, but in an image-driven culture our attention is always liable to drift away from words, however well chosen, to tailoring." Producer: Sheila Cook.

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