>It strikes me that we most often see a man "shopping" for clothes when he >is sponsoring a female shopper, e.g. _Pretty Woman_. It's his credit card, >but she's doing the shopping. Is this because shopping for clothes, >especially the trying-on of roles which it involves, creates the impression >of both vanity and anxiety, and this sits uneasily with the masculine >screen image? Still? This seems like an unsatisfactory conclusion. James Stewart and Kim Novak shopping for clothes in "Vertigo" is justifiably the most famous example of the above. Jerry ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]