Big Picture: Switcheroo, by Hana Pesut

It’s a simple premise: a sporting couple are photographed in their own clothes, Photograph: Hana Pesut

and then they swap. Photographer Hana Pesut asked each couple to match their partner’s original stance – they mostly look at ease and comfortable. Photograph: Hana Pesut

There’s a rigorously intellectual statement here on the role clothing performs in the social construction of identity; how gender distinctions are blurring in contemporary post-industrial society. Photograph: Hana Pesut

But really it’s more about discovering what you look like dressed as the missus. Photograph: Hana Pesut

The truly awful swaps are the funniest. Photograph: Hana Pesut

A bearded man wears his partner’s jersey sundress with a necklace and pretty jacket, his beer-belly distending the fabric into an elegant Grecian swag. Photograph: Hana Pesut

In another shot, a man snappily dressed in cardigan, jacket and David Hockney glasses Photograph: Hana Pesut

looks particularly terrible in his partner’s midriff-revealing T-shirt and hotpants. (She looks terrific.) Photograph: Hana Pesut

Is it a sign of a better relationship Photograph: Hana Pesut

that you should never, ever swap clothes ? Photograph: Hana Pesut

We already have “boyfriend jeans”; Photograph: Hana Pesut

isn’t it time we had “girlfriend skirts” too ? Photograph: Hana Pesut