recession fashion tip #6: share your wardrobe

in earlier times, maria skimped on the wardrobe budget by just turning up in used, dyed potato sacks (vide this and this). now the warsi-goretti combine has worked out a different way to beat the budget blues. maria steals arshad's rented (but never returned) tux, using some parts of it for public appearances. and the man himself makes do with his watchman's madras shirt and old jeans. hey, after all, they were attending slumdog's premiere, not the titanic's.