Stripped of choice
Before it’s too late for us…
STRIP clubs are under threat and research we highlight exclusively today suggests there could be no more left in the UK by 2030.
That’s the claim of a campaign group who fear they are being shut down by councils on a “sexist crusade” to eradicate the venues, despite there being no complaints from locals.
Campaigners fear the closure of lapdancing clubs will force of thousands of women out of work.
They also warn that shutting down safe and regulated clubs will simply push the profession underground, putting dancers at risk of harm.
They have called on the Government to help safeguard the sector.
And that sounds like a legitimate call. Strip clubs may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but everybody should be free to decide for themselves.
The word’s from Genoa, Italy, where hard-wearing, twilled cotton blue cloth was made from the 1500s and used by sailors. “Denim” comes from Nimes, France, where a similar fabric was made.
The women’s highheel shoe, popularised in the 1950s, gets its name from a type of slender dagger, dating back to 15th Century Italy, which was often a favourite weapon of assassins.
The “explosive” two-piece swimming costume was invented by Frenchman Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll, the Pacific island where US nuclear bombs were tested.
JEANS: STILETTOS: BIKINI:
The hard, round felt titfer was first designed in 1849 by London-based firm Thomas and William Bowler to protect gamekeepers from injuring their heads on lowhanging branches.
The type of sweater we know today is based on the woollen waistcoats pioneered by Lord Cardigan during the Crimean War in the 19th Century to help troops cope with freezing conditions.