Subscribe to this blog's feedDisconnector has more than once seen advice to workers to reduce air conditioning requirements (and save money) in a hot summer by taking off their ties - advice first given (unles you know better) to Japanese salarymen.
Does it really work? At last we can put some numbers to the rumours, thanks to those style conscious Italians. "Taking off the tie produces an immediate decrease in the body temperature by 2C or 3C", Italian officials told the Guardian.
UK readers can now pray for a much-needed heatwave, secure in the knowledge they can look as cool as their continental cousins.
Disconnector has no tie to take off. But have no fear; his high tech outfit is, of course, warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
