Dame Vivienne Westwood says the secret to staying young is only having a bath once a week.
The 76-year-old fashion designer advised that people shouldn't 'wash too much' - before her husband Andreas Kronthaler, 51, revealed that she 'only takes a bath every week'.
Kronthaler, who is also a fashion designer, then went on to joke that he only washes 'once a month'.
Westwood, who is well known for being an eco-warrior, has previously admitted that she rarely showers - and reuses her husband's dirty bath water.
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Brainwashed, though?
All of which washing habits would have been completely normal in many households when she was a youngster. When hot water was scarce and not immediately 'on tap' unless boilers were lit or immersion heaters switched on for special occasions (like bathnight). It's easy to forget how lives have changed in 60 or so years. Oddly she, and many of her contemporaries, have survived to a decent age regardless and with many fewer allergies.
Stories like this should have the plug pulled on them.
If she's like that, what would Tracy Emin be like?
As time accelerates, I am reluctantly forced more and more to conclude that people, whether they be suppliers of shite or consumers thereof, are seriously weird; no doubt about it. Frankly, in a marginally semi-rational world who could ever be expected to give any consideration to a little eccentric old lady’s wacky personal hygiene regime. The irritating truth seeker in me idly wonders: If hubby, let’s just say, suffers ‘intestinal misadventures’ (the good book teaches us that we all apparently share a common humanity) just how anxious is she to jump into the hand-me-down bathwater? Back to basics, and all that stuff. Got to admit I’m a luxurious shower person, and screw the planet. The imaginary guilt is part of the fun.
It's said that Queen Elizabeth I bathed once a month - whether she needed to or not.
I suppose there are seven odiferous ages of person just like Shakespeare's seven ages.
When babies we smell of poo and milk, as small children not too bad, as teenagers hormonally whiffy, a bit less so in twenties and thirties, expensively perfumed and pomaded in our forties and fifties then losing the need for all that in our sixties and seventies. Finally we return to a pong of ammonia and poo, NHS nappies and sans teeth.
The smell of aftershave isn't all that pleasant to me these days either...
Sam - but not with her own water.
Woodsy - good point, I remember those days but I sometimes wonder if we were a little smelly by modern standards.
Demetrius - not before the water has been used over and over again though.
James - you've reminded me of that bed.
Clacket - I’m a luxurious shower person too. There is probably nothing much wrong with hand-me-down bathwater, but it isn't likely to be nice and hot.
decnine - presumably nobody would have dared suggest a more frequent regime.
Roger - the last one reminds me of my father's care home. However much cleaning they did there was always a certain hint of these things in the air.
Scrobs - I'm okay with obviously natural and not too powerful aromas such as cinnamon.
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