Do you look like a cheap whore? A guide for paranoid women going to New Year's parties

NO-ONE wants to look as if they’re selling sexual services at a New Year’s gathering, so if you’re a woman paranoid about her outfit use our checklist: 

Are you showing too much cleavage?

You thought that slightly low-cut top was perfect for a party. Now your self-consciousness is telling you it would be better for a street corner. Avoid further embarrassment by immediately telling any man you’re introduced to: ‘I’m not giving you oral without a condom for ten quid.’

Is that off-the-shoulder top too risque?

You are brazenly flaunting your most intimate of erogenous zones, your shoulders, so don’t be surprised if someone asks you how much you charge for anal. That could easily happen at a painfully middle-class New Year’s Eve gathering serving M&S Mexican nibbles to avoid being confused with cheese-and-pineapple-on-a-stick-eating scum.

Is it obvious you have breasts?

Is that clingy jumper revealing that you, a woman, have breasts? Frankly you may as well have just gone down the docks in fishnet stockings and a leather miniskirt and caught VD off multiple sailors.

Are you wearing slutty heels?

Those towering stilettos are what a high-class hooker would wear when meeting a rich client in a luxury hotel. Or at least that’s what your modest three-inch heels look like in your fevered imagination. In reality you probably won’t be required to service the depraved sexual tastes of a Saudi prince, as they tend not to hang out in pubs in Macclesfield hoping for a snog and a feel at midnight.

Do those trousers leave nothing to the imagination?

An attack of camel toe is an embarrassing wardrobe error rather than an attempt to tout for trade, but it could be interpreted as advertising your wares. Still, if the party is flagging, people will find your pudenda far more compelling viewing than Ronan Keating and Friends on BBC1.

Does that cropped top say ‘crack whore’?

Does your top showing a small amount of midriff make you look exactly like Julia Roberts as a streetwalker in Pretty Woman, complete with thigh-length boots and microskirt? Yes. But since your imagination is now completely out of control there’s also a chance an unfeasibly nice millionaire will want to do an Eliza Doolittle on you, so don’t go home and change.

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How to stop yourself sobering up between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve

THERE’S a whole week between the year’s two biggest piss-ups. If you want to keep the party going while you wait, stay half-cut with this guide: 

Establish a support network

It’s unreasonable to expect you to do this by yourself. If you want to stay shitfaced for six days straight, you’re going to need a network of close friends and relatives to supportively place another drink into your trembling hands. Don’t feel like a burden though – you’ll be repaying the favour by grabbing them a bottle whenever you stumble uncertainly to the fridge.

Indulge your triggers

People trying to achieve a life of sobriety avoid anything that will set off their vice. Since you’re taking the opposite approach, constantly expose yourself to temptation. Anything from lingering in the cheerful atmosphere of a pub to putting yourself in stressful situations where you desperately need alcohol to calm your nerves will work. Perhaps visit the roughest local hostelry wearing a ‘MORE IMMIGRATION NOW!’ T-shirt? As long as you struggle to form barely coherent sentences, you’re doing it right.

Pace yourself

This is a marathon, not a sprint. You’re trying to find the sweet spot where you’re more than tipsy but not quite paralytic. Going too soft will bring the crushing mundanity of the festive dead zone into harsh relief, whereas drinking too much could send you spiralling into an ill-timed hangover on New Year’s Eve. Don’t waste all of December 31st hunched miserably over a toilet puking your guts up. That’s what January 1st is for.

Eat the bare minimum

Seasoned pissheads already know that eating’s cheating, but it’s especially important to remember this disclaimer at Christmas. With so many slices of cured meat and Pringles tubes to hand, it’s all too easy to inadvertently graze your way to clearheadedness. If you must eat more than the bare minimum needed to keep you alive, opt for chocolate liqueurs to keep your blood alcohol level up.

Ignore your limits

Over the course of the week your body is going to try to tell you to stop knocking back booze and drink a healthy glass of water instead. At times like these you’ll need to tap reserves of physical and mental determination. By ignoring the limits of what your liver, bowels and brain cells can tolerate, you’ll reach new plateaus of intoxicated merriment. Have you got a drink problem? No, you’re powering through the infamous wall!