15 APRIL 1989, Page 11

A DICTIONARY OF CANT

LIFESTYLE: This is something that happens in magazines, rather than peo- ple's lives. What it all means is that you can buy a certain ensemble of home furnishings, scents, clothes, sports, clubs and interests in a sort of matched job lot, called a lifestyle. In the future, it will be possible to get a matching job through an agency, meet matching friends who have also bought the same lifestyle, and all of these might he available on one credit card.

Nigel Burke