

Buff ... Buff
[Short of time? Read the haiku instead] If there’s one item of clothing that’s praised far beyond its use, it must be a Buff. Or maybe a shrug, which for a long time I thought was a Gallic expression of indifference. If you don’t know what a Buff is, think of a seamless cylinder of polyester material. Of limited use, you might think, and you’d be right. Not according to the canny marketing department at Buff Ltd. Invented in 1991 in Catalonia, possibly to wrap around a leg of