Is fantastic elastic the next stocking filler?

IT’S a big occasion and you’ve spent days choosing your outfit. You’re as groomed as a Valentino model, oozing glamour from your glossy tresses right down to your manicured and bronzed toes.

As you step out of a car into the wedding/ball/race meeting, you feel a little something brush off your calf...

And, in that second, any outward glow evaporates as a look of unspeakable horror flashes across your perfectly made-up face.