And many whose blood pressure is elevated only in the doctor's office ("white coat hypertension") are on medication that they don't need.
Before the prurient-minded descend on the box office, trench coats flapping in a frenzy of nostalgia, I should clarify that the one man involved in all these encounters is long since dead.
As soon as it started getting hotter, everyone started getting bites, probably because everyone shares one communal office: bags, coats, everything goes in there.
Some patients experience an increase in pressure simply because they're in the doctor's office -- "white coat hypertension," it's called.
"A typical cyclist uses the bicycle within five kilometers," or about three miles, said Mr. Hansen, whose office keeps a coat rack of ponchos that bicycling employees can borrow in case of rain.
"This is a typical silhouette of mine," he said, as a model walked across his office wearing a coat with a sagging back, an update on a style he first introduced a few years ago.
A woman who lives the maxim "You can't be too streamlined or too thin," she reaches reflexively for her Louis Vuitton Pochette whenever she heads for a restaurant, leaving her tote at the office or the coat check.
Safe from the elements, safe from marauders...you want to know the stuff you leave around town, in your home, your car, your office and your coat pockets will be there on your return.
