NEW YORK - For most women, the choice between sex and a new wardrobe is 
simple -- they go for the clothes. 
 
 
   A woman walks past advertisements for 
 designer clothes inside a shopping mall in Beijing December 13, 2006. 
 Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months 
 for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex 
 for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey of 
 about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities. [Reuters]
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Women on average say they would be 
willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 
percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, 
according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities. 
Sixty-one percent of women polled said it would be worse to lose their 
favorite article of clothing than give up sex for a month. 
"Some people say clothes make the man, but the right clothes can even replace 
him," fashion designer, stylist and TV personality Carson Kressley from the 
reality TV show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" said in a statement 
accompanying the poll. 
The study also suggested that clothes often wear better than relationships. 
The average woman between 18 and 54 years of age has hung on to her favorite 
article of clothing for 12 and a half years, a year longer than she's held on to 
her longest relationship. 
Almost three-quarters of respondents, or 70 percent, also said they believed 
in love at first sight when it came to finding the perfect article of clothing, 
while only 54 percent of women were as confident in spotting the right man. 
Nearly half of the women, or 48 percent, taking part in the survey by 
consumer products giant Unilever said their favorite article of clothing was 
more reliable than their man in giving them confidence and making them feel 
sexy.