NORTH Yorkshire's new army of calendar girls could not be more different than the pin-ups of the past. First, the world was seduced by the glamour of the Rylstone and District WI, whose members posed naked behind flower arrangements in a gloriously original celebration of womanhood.

Now the younger generation is doing something similar. York fashion students are raising money for their London show by exploiting calendar girl power to their own ends.

It still raises a smile that it was the homemakers of the WI, rather than the career-minded students, who began this unexpected trend.