31 DECEMBER 2005, Page 47

Q. Your correspondent who was refused entry to the Carlton

Club because she was wearing jeans might be interested to know that my club in Pall Mall made the great mistake of allowing in women who were wearing trousers, with the result that some arrive in ordinary baggy jeans which are certainly not Armani. Can it be a gentlemen’s club if the women do not dress as ladies?

J.P., Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk A. Thank you for making this point.

Q. I am a second-year female pupil at a leading public school and have recently acquired a rather ‘rebellious’ new associate. He has recounted to me tales of