When your cleaner turns up in the same dress as you, do you ask her to go home and change?

Oh god, The Daily Mail still hasn't got the 'It's not the 1930s' memo. Throughout the years there have been countless articles written around the supposed embarrassment of being caught wearing the same outfit as someone else.

The Mail finds a whole new angle on this: The shame of wearing the same thing as your hired help! How dare these lesser beings have the termerity to suggest that they can afford the same things as you or indeed share your supposedly elevated middle-class tastes? Back to the workhouses with them, they should be in rags!

The writer goes as far as to ponder whether this is a disciplinary offense: Cleaner looks pretty today? she's wearing make-up? Dock the chit a days pay!