英國女性週一化妝時間爲週五的四倍
British women take four times as long to get ready for work on Mondays than on Fridays, while men also put less effort into their appearance as the week goes on, according to research by retail chain Debenhams.
On average, women spend 76 minutes getting ready on Mondays -- with almost a third of that spent on their hair -- 18 minutes on make-up, 16 minutes trying on different combinations of clothes and the rest taken up by showering and washing.
This is reduced to 40 minutes on Tuesdays and continues to decline as the week goes on, falling to 19 minutes on Fridays.
"Make the most of looking at your work colleagues on a Monday morning, because that's as good as they're going to get," said Debenhams spokesman Ed Watson.
But it is not just women who put more effort into making a good impression on work colleagues at the start of the week.
Men too let their standards suffer with each passing day, the survey of 1,000 customers by Debenhams' personal shopper network found. They take 28 minutes on Monday, half that on Tuesday and 11 for the rest of the week.
"It's clear that most men can only pay attention to their appearance for a maximum of two days before opting for an acceptable level of dishevelment," said Watson.
"Women try to keep their dress standards higher for longer, but by the time Friday comes, they too have gone down a line of least resistance."
英國德本漢姆百貨公司開展的一項調查顯示，英國女性週一上班前的梳妝打扮時間爲週五的四倍，而男性用於打理“門面”的時間也隨着週末的臨近逐漸減少。
調查顯示，英國女性週一上班前花在梳妝打扮上的時間平均爲76分鐘，其中近三分之一的時間花在打理頭髮上，18分鐘用於化妝，16分鐘用於服裝搭配，其餘時間則用於洗漱。
而到了週二，上班前的準備時間縮短至40分鐘。隨着週末的臨近，這一時間逐漸縮短，到了週五僅剩19分鐘。
德本漢姆公司發言人艾德•沃森說：“看來週一早上要好好欣賞你的同事，因爲這是他們一週中打扮得最光鮮的時刻。”
但並不只是女性在週一格外注重打扮自己以給同事留下好的印象。
男性也會隨着週末的日益臨近而放鬆標準，這項由德本漢姆公司個人購物助理網絡對一千名顧客開展的調查顯示，英國男性週一上班前打理“門面”的時間平均爲28分鐘，週二減半，接下來的幾天只要11分鐘就能出門。
沃森說：“很明顯，大多數男性最多隻能堅持兩天，接下來的幾天讓自己能看得過去就行了。”
“而女性則盡力保持着高標準，但隨着週五的來臨，她們也管不了那麼多了。”
Vocabulary:
make the most of: to use to greatest advantage; utilize fully（充分利用，盡情享受）
dishevelment：the state or quality of being disheveled（蓬亂，凌亂）
a line of least resistance：最容易的途徑；最便當的方法
