A chair conveniently available in some stores that sell fashionable
female clothing. The chair allows the male partner of the
female shopper to rest his aching legs while he tries not to answer such dangerous questions as: "Does this make me look
fat?" and "Which one of these (ugly and bizarre items) looks best?".
A man usually makes use of the manchair early in a relationship, until it is stable enough for him to reveal that he does not actually enjoy traipsing through shop after shop, watching his partner buy (or try on) freakish clothes that only look good on airbrushed anorexic models in magazines. At this point, he can say: "No, you go shopping. I will stay home and: (a) watch TV; (b)
sleep; or (c)
stick pins in my eyes."
Woman: "Do you mind if I just try on a
couple of things? It won't take a second."
Man: No, that's
fine. I'll just sit in the manchair and veg out for a
couple of hours."