專家支招:撞衫的時候該怎麼辦?

本文是一位來自洛杉磯的女士投書華爾街時報的時尚記者兼專家Teri Agins，講了自己的一次不幸遭遇：

I was in the drinks line at a cocktail party behind a woman in the same dress as mine: black and low-cut, with a full skirt and an appliqué border around the bottom. I told her, "I like your dress," and she turned around to smile. Then I told her we were wearing the same dress, at which point she stepped back and looked me up and down, totally mortified, and then walked away. (She was very top-heavy and about 5 inches shorter.) I realized I had made the wrong decision. Now I have some new large tortoise-shell glasses and keep encountering people with the same glasses. What should I do?— K.H., Los Angeles

一次雞尾酒會上，我站在一位和我穿着一模一樣衣服的女士的後面，我們的衣服都是一條裙底鑲着花邊的黑色低領長裙。我走進近她說："我喜歡你的裙子。"她微笑地轉過身來。然後我又告訴她我們穿的衣服一樣，她退後幾步，驚恐地上下打量了幾下，感覺很受侮辱，然後走開了。（她走路時頭重腳輕，個子大約矮了5英寸。）我意識到我的做法不太合適。現在我有一些新的玳瑁酒杯，我一直會遇到一些有相同杯子的人。請問遇到這種情況，我究竟該做些什麼又該說些什麼呢？

對此，華爾街時報的時尚專家Teri Agins的建議很簡單——當你不幸被撞衫，你有兩種選擇：

(1) Stand far enough away that nobody will notice

站得遠遠的，任誰也注意不到你們撞衫了；

(2) Smile warmly and declare to your twin: "Don't we have great taste?" or "Don't we both look marvelous?"

熱情地微笑，向你的雙胞胎姐妹宣稱：“咱姐倆太有品位了，不是嗎？”或者“咱倆看上去都太棒了！”

華爾街日報這篇文章下面有個叫Steven Hoskins 發了如下一番感慨：

This once again is an unexplainable, incomprehensible difference between men and a man meets some one wearing the same thing they automatically strike up a conversation. Whereas a woman just may end up hating the other , very odd.

這再次證明了男人與女人之間難以解釋、不可理解的差異。如果一個男人見到和他穿着一模一樣的另一個男人，他們馬上就能聊起來，而一個女人處在相同的這種情況下就會對對方忿恨不已。怪，怪哉。