2017年职称英语 考试 报名:2017年职称英语综合类B级阅读材料精选(3)

女性在迷你裙上逗留的时间更长

　　根据Debenhams公司的调查，英国女性在40岁之前钟情于穿超短裙。

　　可就在20年前，只有很少数的女性在33岁以后还敢穿超短裙。Debenhams公司透露，这些表明现代女性对自己身材的信心与日俱增，并在一份声明中补充到现代女性也很喜欢穿衣打扮，如果这个趋势继续下去的话，那么在下个十年的时间里40岁到50岁的英国女性的衣橱无疑将被超短裙占据。

　　商店调查在过去6个月购买超短的，36厘米长的裙子的妇女的最新年龄分布时，出现了新的数字。他们的研究结果表明，在新千年开始之际，平均年龄已由36岁上升到40岁。 从1980年的数字显示，平均起来，当达到33岁时妇女就停止购买迷你裙了——这一数字从60年代中期一直没有改变。

　　商店注意到，专家相信高密度的健身文化的流行，给女性更加长时间的保持身体健康提供了理据。英国生活独立的妇女越来越多也是其中一个因素。

　　16岁到19岁之间裙子变得越来越短，从46厘米减少到36厘米，23岁时达到32厘米，达到最短。23岁到27岁迷你裙长度又逐渐增长，增加到37厘米，可能是由于女孩感情第一次稳定下来，没有再去吸引人的必要。商店报道说。

　　然而，由于女孩的第一次感情的破裂，新的关系正在形成，从27岁到34岁迷你裙又突然流行起来。40岁时迷你裙又开始变长，46厘米，稍稍在膝盖上面是标准的流行模式。从那时起，迷你裙的长度急剧增长，在42岁时又达到膝盖以下，这是自从离开校门后首次达到膝盖以下。

Women Staying in Mini-Skirts for Longer

　　British women are happy nowadays to wear mini-skirts up until the age of 40, according to research by Debenhams.

　　Just 20 years ago, few women would dare to wear a mini-skirt after the age of 33, the store said. “It shows that women now have an increasing confidence in their bodies and are happy to dress accordingly,” it added in a statement. “If this trend continues, there’s no doubt that, within the next decade, women in their mid 40s and early 50s will rightly regard a mini-skirt as an essential pan of their everyday wardrobe.”

　　The figures emerged when the store examined the latest age profile of women buying short, 36-cm skirts over the past six months. Their results show that it has jumped from an average age of 36-years-old at the start of millennium to 40 today. Figures from 1980 showed that on average women stopped buying minis when they reached 33 years old -- a figure unchanged from the mid-1960s.

　　The store noted that experts believe that the popularity of intensive gym culture, providing women with well toned bodies for longer may be the reason The increasing number of British women living on their own may also be a factor.

　　The Debenhams’ study showed that a modern woman’s love affair with a mini-skin begins at the age of 14 but that she doesn’t buy her first one until the age of 16 Instead, she flouts school roles by rolling up the waistband of the school uniform to give the impression of wearing a mini skirt.

　　Skirts get shorter between the ages of 16 and 19, reducing in size from 46 to 36 cm before reaching their shortest, a mere 32 cm, at the age of 23. Skirt .length increases slightly between the ages of 23 and 27, rising to 37 cm, possibly due to girls being in their first stable relationship, with no desire to attract attention, the store said.

　　However, it found short skirt suddenly zoom in popularity between the ages of 27 and 34, as those early relationships break down, and new relationships are formed. The move into longer skins begins irreversibly at 40 years old, when 46-cm skins, still slightly above the knee are the norm. From then on, skirt length increases dramatically, falling below the knee for the very first time since school days at the age of 42.

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