Study Finds Women Guilty of Sartorial Sabotage

by Megan Baldwin | 1:32 pm, May 26th, 2010

Oh, the tangled webs we women weave — at least according to studies. The Daily Mail today cites a new study finding that four out of ten of your ’friends’ are guilty of sartorial sabotage. The study of 1,629 women revealed that 38 per cent of women will lie to you about your outfit because — guess what? — they don’t want you looking better than them. So about Gwyneth’s hair last night? Wonder which of her gal pals gave that one a thumbs up…

Worse, some mean girls even cop to purposefully spilling drinks or damaging an article of clothing to boost their own self-confidence. If it sounds down-right evil, experts say the she-devil horns are actually biological as opposed to pathological. “It is about survival and attracting the best possible mate for yourself. We don’t want to ruin our own chances,” said Phillip Hodson, fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. So instead we stamp our feet and ruin our friend’s shiny new shoes.

But, as Andy Barr, of MyCelebrityFashion.co.uk, which conducted the survey points out, the results simply underscore something any woman who has watched Sex and the City already knew — closet envy is real, and it is a force to be reckoned with. But before you go getting paranoid like something out of an X-Files circa 97, take a look in the mirror and ask yourself why you were even soliciting advice in the first place. If you like helmet head, who cares if Regina George and her Kaltene bars says it looks hideous. And if you’re really in a hot or not bind, well, there’s an app for that.

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