So it's farewell slippers, hello champagne. The latest changes to the shopping basket of goods and services used by the ONS to measure UK inflation seem to suggest our tastes have gone upmarket.
Chocolate biscuits, frozen chicken and flavoured milk have made way for bottles of bubbly, boxes of wine and chicken Kiev.
The march of technology is also apparent in the list of new additions to the basket of around 650 popular items, which are priced on a monthly basis in order to produce data about consumer and retail price inflation.
This year, personal CD players - which entered the basket in 1998 - are replaced by MP3 players and flat panel TVs, digital camcorders and music downloads appear for the first time.
Other new additions include cold and flu drinks, fees for nannies and after-school clubs, desks for home offices and visits to car repair shops for a new exhaust or brakes. Items going out include coleslaw, frozen gateaux, dining room tables and dishcloths.
Evidence - if it were needed - that the way we dress has changed over the past 60 years seems to be provided by the disappearance of girls' dresses, children's sandals and slippers, which have all been in the basket since it was first used as a measure in 1947. Researchers will now monitor the cost of girls' trousers and casual coats instead of formal outerwear.
However, the ONS says we shouldn't read too much into the changes. "It is very important to note that the contents of the basket, and in particular changes from one year to the next, should not be deemed significant beyond their purpose as representative items used in estimating retail price changes," it explains.
"Changes to the basket will reflect evolving consumer tastes, but only over a long run of years."
Slipper-wearing, it seems, is not necessarily a thing of the past.
