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One suspects that he'll need to do a full hair-shirt/self-flagellation while crawling on his belly singing "YMCA" for this one.

He was the Peronist disciple who rejected his hero's protectionist economic policies in favour of the hair-shirt approach of the IMF.

For all its emotional power, it remains a feat of hair-shirt economics.

In the architecture world, Passivhaus is a byword for clunky boxes with fat rendered walls and tiny windows, representing a kind of socks-and-sandals, ironed hair-shirt approach to design.

When the heat index rises, jeans or even chinos can feel like hair-shirt trousers; the denim cutoffs the trendier set favors look silly on anyone over 30.