Copper(II) sulfate, also known as cupric sulfate or copper sulphate, is the chemical compound with the chemical formula ‘CuSO4’. This salt exists as a series of compounds that differ in their degree of hydration. The anhydrous form is a pale green or gray-white powder, whereas the pentahydrate the most commonly encountered salt, is bright blue. Here is representative depiction of ‘peacock blue’…. Can you really distinguish them … ladies do – but mostly those employed in ‘blouse’ matching centres are male !!
For many Chennaites –
weekends are lost in Thegaraya Nagar – (more popularly T Nagar) that
has everything for people of all walks of life… from platform shops,
pedlars, small shops to sprawling shops – mainly textiles and of course Gold
jewellers. Some of the famous shops
selling textiles include : Nalli,
Kumaran Textiles, Pothys, Chennai Silks, Kumaran Stores, Sri Krishna, Murugan
Textiles, Textiles India, Saravana Stores, Saravana Selvarathinam Stores,
Jayachandra Textiles and more… sure you
have had to accompany your wife on a buying spree, have you taken your mother,
your sister, or friend – to one of these saree shops ….and can you tell any
difference ? – there would be no end to surprises of the women’s power to
distinguish colours, relate to what they have and what someothers have …. and
contemplate moving to another shopping complaining that ‘the shop where they had
spent hours – has little of variety; salespersons did not display enough (when
they would standing near heaps of garments)’ – compare this with a Europa
showroom selling Van Heusen; Louis Philippe, Allen Solly – size 40 – slack –
some 20 odd pieces to chose – and you complete your purchase so happily ….
T Nagar shops where the chemical element
with the symbol Au (Latin aurum – shining dawn) enamours woman is different
…. Infront of those garment shops –
there are crowded waiting places - you
can find concerned menfolk, waiting with patience, as their woman do the
shopping inside ….in Tamil magazines, you can read
jokes on the long hours of their wait – not knowing the fate of their purse;
and the look that the salesperson might do when confounded with the Q of
whether one looks slim and beautiful on that outfit and whether it is similar
to the one that she wore for a function a couple of years ago !!! …….if there
was a smile on your face, thoughts running fast of your own experience – do
read on what Daily Mail says ‘Women really don’t know what they want: Indecisive female
shoppers try on 40,000 pieces of clothing in their lifetime, but only buy one
in seven’
The interesting article that appeared on
26th Mar 2014 states - Indecisive women
try on and reject more than 40,000 items of clothing while shopping during an
average lifetime, a new poll has revealed. The number is enough to clothe the
population of a town such as Yeovil in Somerset
or The Shetland Islands in Scotland.
[what is so rejected in T Nagar would be enough for population of Mylapore,
Triplicane, Mambalam, Nungambakkam … by Chennai standards !]
Researchers quizzed men and
women on their changing room habits when on a shopping trip ~ and in that
search of that elusive perfect dress – the number of items one tries an
discards, quickly piles up. Women admitted to trying on an average of 12 items
each shopping trip with five such outings each month. It means they try on
around 720 different items of clothing each year - or 43,200 over the course of
a 60 year shopping lifetime. Yet despite trying on more than four times as many
clothing items as men, women actually buy less per shopping expedition,
according to the research.
It further states that -
Women only actual buy one in seven of the clothes they take into the changing
room…. The study found women try on an average of seven items to find one they
are willing to buy, while men are happy to purchase two out of every three
items tried on in the changing rooms.
Many men said they had already chosen to buy the item before they tried
it on for size and men were also more likely to go shopping with a particular
outfit in mind. Men also went shopping half as frequently as women, averaging
just 2.5 visits to clothing stores each month compared with five for ladies.
They tried on an average of just three items each trip making 90 items a year
or 5,400 during their lifetimes - eight times less than their wives and
girlfriends.
The research confirms the
theory that men have a 'hunter gatherer' instinct when it comes to shopping,
while women are more happy to graze among the aisles. Fashion conscious women
spend up to 22 minutes in a changing room trying on their seven items. Men,
however, will be in and out of a cubicle in five minutes. Women were also more
likely to view shopping as a social activity with the vast majority preferring
to do it with at least one friend while 85 per cent of men opted to shop
alone. One woman among those quizzed
said: 'I'm really indecisive when it comes to buying clothes. It takes me ages
to pick the things I want to take in and even longer to try them all on. 'I
must get through around 50 items during a typical trip and out of those I
probably end up taking about ten per cent home with me.'
A spokesperson for
NetVoucherCodes, who conducted the study, said: 'It isn't easy to find the
right clothes but it's shocking to realize that women try on and reject more
than 40,000 items during their lifetimes. Many a times, statistics get
extrapolated ~ but not sure whether this theory would work fine with Indian
women – given the overflowing wardrobe with many never worn or even forgotten
that some such thing was bought at a high price ~ and accompanying women to
‘matching centre’ where they buy matching blouse material for their colourful
saree could be quite an experience [is it the body color of the saree or the
border color ?]
Life is always interesting,
when you see colours !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar.
27th Mar 2014.
