When she first appeared, in newspaper columns written by the British journalist Helen Fielding during the mid-1990s, the 30-something Bridget was claimed as a totem of womanhood at the time: a calorie-counting,

The bunny girl outfit, the Christmas jumper, the penguin pyjamas and — the ruby slippers of the romcom world — those “absolutely enormous pants”. We’re talking Bridget Jones’s wardrobe, of course. The Chardonnay-swilling character,