3:30 ON WEDNESDAY: When Women Are At Their Worst. “According to the tanning-product company St. Tropez, which apparently conducts scientific surveys in its spare time, women look their most wrinkly and haggard at 3:30 on Wednesday afternoons. That’s precisely when the previous weekend’s partying combines with work stress and the past few nights of insufficient sleep to turn us all into real-life versions of a Cathy cartoon.”