See the world through jenny’s fun-tinted lenses…

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

It’s a funny old world

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Subversive or sexy? Provocative or pants? Just don’t let this dress trend keep you up all night, says Laura Antonia Jordan

Forget the standard double: country-house sleeping arrangements have undergone all sorts of intriguing (and eyebrow-raising) shifts throughout history, observes Melanie Cable-Alexander

If you’re planning to ‘hit the sack’ after a night on the town, you aren’t, of course, a medieval peasant who was also looking for a good night’s sleep on a bag stuffed with straw or hay. Many early m