DEAR MISS MANNERS: A woman my husband works with bought him five work shirts. (This is something that happens quite often with this co-worker.) I told him that I felt it was inappropriate, and that he should give them back.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A woman my husband works with bought him five work shirts. (This is something that happens quite often with this co-worker.) I told him that I felt it was inappropriate, and that he should give them back.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a wife who is bothered by their husband receiving an expensive gift from a female co-worker.