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Post by Phalon on May 21, 2006 23:47:28 GMT -6
I broke a bra; bust right out of it. I don't know my own boob strength, I guess.
Ok - so I was wearing the wrong bra for the wrong job - sports bras all in the laundry, and I wore one of my demis to work - hard physical work - and then roller skiing afterward. Obviously made to hold up supportively and not to hold up; expensive, but cheaply made. Glad I didn't pay full price; it was the one I bought online from Victoria's Secret...and now Victoria's Secret is outta the bag, and in the trash. No, no - not in the trash though it might as well be - I'll never get around to sewing it back together, I'm sure. A simple fix; it was just the strap that broke away from the cup.
And this unfortunate event reminds me of a site I saw when Joxie and I were discussing the pros and cons of online bra shopping. I'm sure the thin straps of the demi broke due to improper handling techniques: there is a proper way to don a bra rather than just to slap them in there and hoist 'em up. The site lists three techniques with step by step instructions - an amusingly bizarre thing to give instruction for, and even more bizarre that I would look them up again....
"What is the correct way to put on a bra? It's one thing to simply put on a bra, and quite another to have it properly positioned so that it provides the right support and stays comfortable all day. It may take a few seconds longer, but the fit and comfort factor will be well worth the extra time. We have discovered there are three different ways to put on a bra. Each technique achieves the proper result if done correctly. We have listed them for you in order of our preference.
Hook & Spin 1. Wrap your bra around your waist and hook the closure in front of you. Make note of the location of the bra's label (e.g. side seam, back). 2. Turn your bra clockwise until the front of your bra is centered. This ensures that the excess on the adjustment flap lays flat against your back. 3. Bring bra up so that the bra band is resting directly under the breasts. 4. Slip the shoulder straps over your shoulders. 5. Run your finger along the area where the bra's label is to make sure it is lying smooth and flat against your skin. 6. Tug downward on the back of the bra so that it rests beneath the shoulder blades. The line of the bra should be horizontal from front to back. 7. Bend over at the waist and ease your breasts into the cups. One technique is to pull the band down and shake until the breasts fall into place. Another technique is to move the breast around with your hand until it is satisfactorily in the cup. Your nipples should be centered into the fullest point of the cup, and the cup should completely contain the breast (with the exception of push-up and demi cup styles). 8. Stand upright and visually check to see that your breasts are in the proper position. Note: Critics of this technique claim that rotation of the bra around the torso to move the closing fastener to the back wears down the inside of the bra.
Upside down hook & spin It sounds strange but we have an associate who swears by this method. 1. Wrap your bra around your waist inside out and upside down. Hook the closure. Make note of the location of the bra's label (e.g. side seam, back). 2. Turn your bra (in this technique it doesn't matter what direction you turn it) until the front of your bra is centered. 3. Flip the bra up so that the bra band is right side out and resting directly under the breasts. 4. Slip the shoulder straps over your shoulders. 5. Run your finger along the area where the bra's label is to make sure it is lying smooth and flat against your skin. 6. Tug downward on the back of the bra so that it rests beneath the shoulder blades. The line of the bra should be horizontal from front to back. 7. Bend over at the waist and ease your breasts into the cups. One technique is to pull the band down and shake until the breasts fall into place. Another technique is to move the breast around with your hand until it is satisfactorily in the cup. Your nipples should be centered into the fullest point of the cup, and the cup should completely contain the breast (with the exception of push-up and demi cup styles). 8. Stand upright and visually check to see that your breasts are in the proper position. Note: Until you are used to this technique, it may take you a couple of extra seconds to figure out the starting bra position.
Stretch & Hook 1. Begin by slipping the straps over your shoulders. Make note of the location of the bra's label (e.g. side seam, back). 2. Bend over at the waist and ease your breasts into the cups. Your nipples should be centered into the fullest point of the cup, and the cup should completely contain the breast (with the exception of push-up and demi cup styles). 3. Hook the bra closure in back, then stand upright. 4. Run your finger along the area where the bra's label is to make sure it is lying smooth and flat against your skin. 5. Tug downward on the back of the bra so that it rests beneath the shoulder blades. The line of the bra should be horizontal from front to back. 6. Visually check to see that your breasts are in the proper position. Note: This technique can be challenging for someone who is not limber enough to put their two hands behind their back. It is also difficult to tell if the bra is on the proper closure without checking in the mirror."
All this and it's a wonder they don't come with instruction booblets.
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Post by Mini Mia on May 22, 2006 16:59:35 GMT -6
Ha! I cut the tags off!
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Post by Phalon on May 22, 2006 23:40:19 GMT -6
Shhhhh Mia; they'll hear. I can't believe how bra-zenly you shouted that out. The bra tag police are worse than the mattress tag police - and stiffer penalties too. Once busted, you could get 34 to 36 in Cell Block DD.
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Post by katina2nd on May 23, 2006 0:44:23 GMT -6
Boy, after reading your next to last post Lady P [ which I shouldn't have been doin' anyway ] it seems like getting into one of those things requires all the logistical planning of an assault on Mount Everest.
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Post by Mini Mia on May 23, 2006 16:25:05 GMT -6
I don't think I'll get that though, Phalon. More like 28 to 30 years in cell block AA.
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Post by Phalon on May 26, 2006 0:00:10 GMT -6
Mia, 30 for AA battery and assault; I'll slip a file into the cake.
Speaking of assault, we haven't much discussed that part of the atnaomy here. Throw a little assault in the wound; we should get to the bottom of this soon.
Katina, Katina, Katina....you crack me up, Dear Man. Shouldn't have been reading in here? Who says? Such a polite gentleman on a board full of women, you are. But yes, to comment on your comment, it is a bit like an assault on Mt. Everest...or a molehole - whichever.
And be glad you aren't the man in this story I received in an e-mail....
"A man walked into the ladies department of a Macy's and shyly walked up to the woman behind the counter and said, "I'd like to buy a bra for my wife. What type of bra?" asked the clerk. Type?" inquires the man, "There's more than one type? Look around," said the saleslady, as she showed a sea of bras in every shape, size, color and material imaginable.
Actually, even with all of this variety, there are really only four types of bras to choose from. Relieved, the man asked about the types. The saleslady replied: There are the Catholic, the Salvation Army, the Presbyterian, and the Baptist types. Which one would you prefer?
Now totally befuddled, the man asked about the differences between them. The Saleslady responded, "It is all really quite simple..
The Catholic type supports the masses. The Salvation Army type lifts the fallen, The Presbyterian type keeps them staunch and upright, and The Baptist makes mountains out of mole hills.
Have you ever wondered why A, B, C, D, DD, E, F, G, and H are the letters used to define bra sizes? If you have wondered why, but couldn't figure out what the letters stood for, it is about time you became informed!
(A} Almost Boobs... {B} Barely there. {C} Can't Complain! {D} Dang! {DD} Double dang! {E} Enormous! {F} Fake. {G} Get a Reduction. {H} Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up !
They forgot the German bra.
Holtzemfromfloppen!"
And damn, I've sent Hubs to the store for many a thing, but never a bra. Too afraid of what he'd come back with; he's got the feminine product buying down pat, but we are both still reeling from his panyhose buying experience - probably the reason I don't wear them anymore.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jun 4, 2006 0:16:04 GMT -6
HA! See I knew you read those things when I send them!
As for Kat....have we yet discussed the issue of panyhose? No? I gotta say as a DD-cuop team member..those are way more trouble than the dang bras. Any instructions on those Phalon?
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Post by LMV's Old Account on Jun 4, 2006 18:38:45 GMT -6
argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *growls* ok wel i had to go on th pill coz of something to do with endometriosis.....and to my surprize and horror my already big boobs got well bigger HMPH! just another problem to add to my list... oh and i broke my bra at work the other day too the right shoulder strap just snapped off, so clearly that boob must be bigger than the other one hehe
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Post by Phalon on Jul 16, 2006 23:39:34 GMT -6
Scrappy posted in the quote thread, ""We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person...perfectly."
Viewing this on more of a body-image thing for this thread, than on an emotional level - though both apply to the quote, separately, and together...
I read a survey recently: "How Women Really Feel About Their Bodies". Shocking; the results of those polled showed a general low-self esteem about how we women, as a whole, feel about ourselves.
A trivial thing, but 21% of women never let their husbands see them naked. Not letting a partner you love view your body? Kinda sad, I think.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jul 16, 2006 23:42:45 GMT -6
Mind if I throw a comment out there?
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Post by Phalon on Jul 16, 2006 23:47:03 GMT -6
Of course not, Poppet. Just don't hit me in the head with it; how bad is your aim?
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jul 16, 2006 23:51:43 GMT -6
Tonight my aim is bad.....lol
Here goes.....I don't find that at all trivial. In fact I find it to be a big very sad state of things. I would like to see how many female same sex couples have that issue. I believe the number would be a lot less. I can speak from experience on this....it is much harder to get comfortable being naked in front of a man because you (I say that loosely, meaning one is) are constantly worried what he is thinking about your imperfect body. And wondering if he is imagining Claudia Shiffer. Women don't do that. They are way less visually motivated and care more for the person inside than what she looks like.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 17, 2006 22:34:46 GMT -6
Thanks for the input, Scrappy. Always a pleasure hearing your viewpoint, though, on this I don't necessarily agree with parts of your post. Comparatively speaking, I don't know whether being naked is easier in front of a man or woman; I have no experience with women in that area, except in locker rooms or dressing rooms, and that is not what this is about.
Nor is it about casual sex....not the poll anyway. Husbands: 21 percent of women never let their husbands see them naked. Husbands, partners, boyfriends, girlfriends - heterosexual or same sex couples - spouses: the person you love. Sheesh, how sad is that? If you don't feel comfortable enough to be unclothed - a simple thing - in front of the one you love, how comfortable can you be in other areas of the relationship; more important aspects than 'constantly worrying about what he/she thinks of your imperfect body'? Again, as in your post, "you" being a collective term. And what is perfection anyway? Someone who loves you - no matter one's sexual preference - 'cares more for the person inside' than appearances - that's where I disagree what you've written; I don't think it matters whether it's a male/female or a same-sex female relationship.
The comments following the percentage in the poll illustrate better what I mean. I'll post it; I find it interesting.
"21 percent of woman never let their husbands see them naked. When it comes to making love, size really does matter. And not in a good way. More than a third of us, (36%), have begged off from sex because we felt fat. When do do do it, the majority of us (82%) prefer to turn off the lights before we slip between the sheets. Worse still 1 in 5 women won't let her husband see her in the buff at all. While most of us don't go to that extreme, we aren't exactly clamoring for his opinion of our bare assets either. More than half of women surveyed never ask their guy, "Do you think I look fat?" Perhaps we assume we already know the answer. One one hand, over half of women, (58%), say the men they love adore their body as is. On the other, 42% think their partner wish they would drop a few pounds; but experts say if that's the case, it's not for the reason women think.
When counseling couples, Dr. Mintz often hears husbands say they don't mind their wife's weight, except when it interferes with her enjoyment. When we worry more about our love handles than our lovemaking, it kind of spoils the mood. The truth is, says Dr. Burgard, when it comes to sex, men care less about a perfect body and more about having an enthusiastic partner. So shift your focus to your sensuality and lose yourself in the moment, she advises. What type of body do we think turns him on? Despite our own quest for the model figure, even we admit that "very thin" isn't in with men (8%). Rather, we think he likes an 'athletic and toned' body (49%), or a "voluptuous/curvaceous" one (43%) best...."
And Claudia Shiffer. Pfft. My measurements equal Claudia's, (a two minute drill produced the figures)...in fact I've got 3/4 of an inch on her bust! Ok, so that was when she first began modeling in 1990, and there is that tiny nine inch difference in height. (Interesting that currently her bust size is two inches larger, and her waist and hips each an inch smaller). "Hey Hubs! I've got Claudia Shiffer's measurements!" (eye roll) He was not very impressed at that fact. See? It just doesn't matter. (LMAO - I cracked myself up there).
Oh, I didn't forget the panyhose question either; I'll get to that later. Lightening over the lake, and I need to sign off.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 1, 2006 21:23:33 GMT -6
Ok - this is my vanknitty showing and I really should learn to crochet cute little SUVs instead.
Doc informs me today that once a woman hits forty, with no change in exercise or diet, she will gain two pounds per year due to decreased metabolism rates.
Huh? Shhhh....fat cells, DO NOT LISTEN. Grrrr. I walk an average of five miles a day at work; I roller-ski twelve miles per week, and eat relatively healthy, (except for those gotta-have-it sweets in the evening). And this is not good enough!? Pfft.
I will not succumb to middle-age without a fight. If it's all gonna fall, it'll go down kicking and screaming. And I'm not giving up my white-chocolate blueberry cream pie, either! So there.
Pantyhose: another pfft. A smartly dressed woman came to the nursery today: linen shorts, silk blouse, and pantyhose - with sandals...which I think odd, but that is not the point. The point is, it was 100 *&%$ degrees outside. There she is looking crisp in her evenly artifical nylon tanned legs, when my sharply ironed creases in my cut-offs had long since wilted in the humidity. I wilted just looking at her.
I gave up pantyhose long before I gave up the job that dictated I should wear them. And when I wear a dress, I only shave my legs based on the hemline; I love ankle length skirts. And never above my knees - smooth, unchartered virgin territory. (eye-roll) The hair: I've never shaved my thighs.
I think the panty-hose question is better answered by Katina; I understand he prefers the seams-up-the-back with his sequined gowns.
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 1, 2006 22:18:59 GMT -6
Yep, you're right there Lady P, call me old fashioned [ heck, you can call me Sal if you like ] but I've always preferred a nice [ straight ] pair of seams, very fetching.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Aug 20, 2006 16:13:07 GMT -6
Pantyhose I believe were invented by an evil man....
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 21, 2006 0:23:20 GMT -6
Well don't look at me, I had nothing to do with it ........ I swear.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Aug 21, 2006 17:04:28 GMT -6
Likely story...
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Post by Phalon on Aug 22, 2006 0:24:45 GMT -6
They were invented by an evil man, though not our Dear Sweet Katina.
It was the sinister Irish-German tyrant, Paddy O'Hosen, who used them as torture devices, making his subjects wear them for eight hours a day while they slaved away in work-houses for nothing but a mere pittance.
Actually, this sounds like a job for the Two-Minute Drill.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 28, 2006 22:51:31 GMT -6
One of those "Sighing Weeks to be the Mother of a Pre-teen" last week.
First, I get home from work to a long, sad face, and a "Mom, can we talk about something." It seems someone at the daycare her and her sister go to while Hubs and I work made fun of her hairy legs. Not a child. An adult - one of the instructors she's known since she was three years old. Grrrrrrr. LX has a head of very dark, almost black hair. The hair on her arms and legs is dark as well, but not too noticeable; I can't even see it unless I look closely and the light hits it in a certain way. Which is how the daycare woman noticed it. She was next to my daughter on a picnic table bench, LX sitting cross-legged in the bright sun, and the woman says to my sensitive child, "Dang child, you've got hairy legs! When is your Momma going to let you start shaving?"
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think 11 is too young to start shaving. I know the instructor was wrong in saying such a thing to a child. I told her if it really bothered her, yes, she could shave, but explained the disadvantages of shaving this early: once you start you have to continue - every day. It gets coarser and darker. It's a pain in the behind. I wish I never would have started shaving my legs, although I'm about as lazy a shaver as you can get: I only shave from the knee down; my thighs have never felt the blade of a razor. But my leg hair is blonde, and hers is black.
She decided to wait at least until next summer; it'll be fall and jeans weather soon, and her legs will be covered.
One sigh out of the way. The next came when I took her shopping for school clothes. After struggling to find clothes that looked both age appropriate and met the rather basic school dress code: no midriffs showing, shorts and skirts at least as long as her finger-tips with her arms down at her side, sleeveless shirts that had at least a two finger width of material covering the shoulders, we moved on to socks and underwear.
Training bras: apparently the 10 and 11 years olds are very well trained these days. Damn, my bras don't have cups these big. Yeah, well, okay; that doesn't mean much. But damn, again. Bold colors in patterned stripes, polka dots and florals, these itty-bitty pre-bras had enough foam padding in them to make a soft mattress extra firm. No-cup to instant C-cup. Again, maybe Mom is just being a prude, (though my daughter didn't want one), but I'm thinking, "Why?" Why make a 10 year old look as developed as a 16 year old. ARGH! Though I was tempted....hell, I could buy my bras here instead of the Women's Intimate Apparel department and save myself thirty dollars a bra.
I dunno. I really do think it'd be cool to have an A-Cup Team. Or rather, an A-Typical Team. A cartoon maybe, or an "After-School Special", (remember those?). A group of teenaged atypically looking kids: One small-breasted. A girl taller than average. A boy shorter than average. Someone over-weight. A non-athletic boy. Whatever - those not quite fitting into the image presented today as being "perfect". They'd fight for the greater good, squashing those perfect body images that serve nothing but to squash self-esteem.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 2, 2006 9:15:40 GMT -6
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Post by xenavirgin on Dec 2, 2006 14:48:41 GMT -6
Pantyhose I believe were invented by an evil man.... Don't know about pantyhose or an evil man, but the poor sod who invented Nylon was just sad not evil. Apparently he committed suicide because he was unsuccessful with the ladies. Sad. XV
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 3, 2006 17:48:42 GMT -6
Ok. Another round of body image discussion. I received an email the other day titled...”And you think fat is ugly” Enclosed in this email were the following pictures. I must admit when I saw the pictures I was horrified. The images bringing back memories of 8th grade civics class when we began learning about WWII concentration camps. And the not so long ago memories of the Holocaust Museum in DC. Then I began to wonder if the photos hadn’t been doctored in some way. So I went digging. Sure enough I found some of the originals. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see much difference between them. Neither set looks healthy. If I had children would I want them to look at those women and think that was what ALL women are supposed to look like, simply because they have the advantage of being media bound? An image like that stuck in a child’s head is just as damaging, I believe, as actually being that way. Personally I don’t find any of those pictures at all attractive. My next thoughts then are all about the other end of that particular spectrum. Which is better? I would be considered part of that other end. Overweight and also unattractive. However, I have moments when I look at myself and think “Damn I look good”. Rare though they may be. And that’s what’s it’s supposed to be about. Not what other people look like or what they think of your looks, but how you feel about yourself. And I have to ask myself....do those models like how they look? Or do they do that to themselves because of what other people think about them? Personally, I understand I am not the healthiest person, but I’m intelligent, I’m honest, I can be pretty funny, and when I love, I love regardless of what a person looks like. I’m in it for what’s inside.
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 6, 2006 22:51:44 GMT -6
This world had better get a grip on what is of value and emaciated human beings for the sake of fashion is not it. For Phalon and LX..I think I would have one long talk with the teacher whose sensitivity flew out the window. What a horrible thing to say! Just let me at her! I do remember being in the 7th grade and 12 years old having to climb up on my teacher's desk to demonstrate ? putting on a bandage? or whatever it was...I was mortified as the cutest guy (I thought) in class had to put it on. There I sat..( we had to wear skirts in the middle ages) and there was hair on my legs.. ugh! My mother wouldn't let me shave them either. I used to pretend I was shaving them with one of those razor looking shells I saved from a beach trip. "Oh pulleeez let me shave them" She did after that day and I haven't regretted it since! But hey no one sees my hairy legs anyway so I can go for a week until I have to wear a skirt! And the bra thing.. give me another break! Padding in all these bras? ? Do all women and girls have to look like triple D's? ? It is insulting to the intelligence of women for the fashion industry and television to influence young girls into thinking they have to look like hookers at 9! Oh rant and rave..I will. My own daughter refused to wear a bra, so when my sister came to visit from out of town.. she took her and she's been wearing one ever since..hee hee ..she is 26. Maybe the "mother" element was best served by someone other than me. It didn't seem so personal. And for all you A cup women.. give thanks.. for you don't have to bend over and try to get the "girls" in the right position in your bra. My grandmother used to work at a clothing store and she was the best "underwear fitter" anywhere. Old black women used to come in her shop and she wouldn't let them try on a dress until she fitted them with the right GIRDLE..YIKES and a new bra. She would show us at home.. "lean over and put 'em in like this" she would say. What the heck?? I don't even have boobs yet and I certainly don't want to see YOURS! Ick! She had good intentions and everyday when I bend over to pick my boobs off my waist, ha ha ha , I think of her fondly.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 6, 2006 23:24:39 GMT -6
High 5 to leafsoup....who said in her own words exactly what I was thinking but was afraid to come off as bashing. I agree....what is wrong with some of these people. And TEACHERS!!! Did I tell the story about the teacher who called me Shamoo?
Bravo leafsoup...
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 7, 2006 21:39:47 GMT -6
Poor Scrappy and Boo to the teacher. Did I come across as bashing? If speaking up about an injustice is bashing..then I guess I did it. PULEEEZ LET ME STAY AND PLAY.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 9, 2006 18:48:18 GMT -6
Been meaning to get in here...
Actually, Scrap, I see a big difference. The first set of pictures is shocking. And ugly. Ugly because it's been used, and the original pictures altered, strictly for shock value. Typically, anything done for shock value is ugly.
The second set of pictures, while the models may be viewed as thin, would not have received nearly the same response as the altered ones. To say that "thin is ugly" is just as wrong as saying "fat is ugly".
The problem is when people strive to be something they aren't, and go to great lengths to become that person. Some people are naturally thin. Some aren't. And society shouldn't dictate which we should be.
Sitting around at lunch one day, my co-worker was complaining about having to buy a dress for a wedding, and everything she tried on seemed to be made for someone 5 inches taller and 20 pounds lighter than she. My other friend says, "Yannooo....", in that way he has that let's you know something profound is about to come forth, "most of the fashion designers are gay men, right? So they design for what appeals to them. And being a gay man, what is most appealing is a flat chest, and no hips."
So there you have it: why fashions are all designed to fit the body of a teenage male.
Wouldn't it be great if fashion shows, magazines and such included women of all shapes? Thin, fat, short, tall, voluptuous and those lacking well-endowment. It would alleviate a lot of self-esteen issues, I think. Show women it's okay to be just what they are.
Wouldn't be great if we all could say this and mean it each day. Or "Damn, I look good enough." And that be it, and it be good enough for everyone else. My feeling, and that's what I go with.
Ha, Leafsoup. Who says? Don't get them in the right position, and you look like you've got a wandering "eye", one looking this way; one looking the other, and no one knows where to look when speaking to you.
I vote this as best line of the week.
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Post by leafsoup on Dec 9, 2006 22:36:33 GMT -6
Ha.. You're a sweetie Phalon and you are right .. having the girls looking off in two different directions..? Now that's scary and distracting to us and them..hee hee. My boobs aren't really on my waist but I feel like they are.. I'm gonna start looking in the mirror and say..Dang I look good. think it will work?
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Post by xenavirgin on Dec 10, 2006 6:21:32 GMT -6
Wouldn't it be great if fashion shows, magazines and such included women of all shapes? Thin, fat, short, tall, voluptuous and those lacking well-endowment. It would alleviate a lot of self-esteen issues, I think. Show women it's okay to be just what they are. Something I 've always wished would happen to be sure Madam P. And the fact is it just never works out that way, especially over here in the UK. No holds barred I am undoubtedly obese (and there are reasons for that and I am finally working on them productively.) and on the veryt upper end of the size scale in fashion. Now here in the UK there are only two specialised chain stores that cater to the larger female figure and in effect I have little choice whatsoever but to shop at them. And I absolutely hate it for the following reasons: 1. The size range for the clothes is 16-32 (UK sizes sorry don't know the US equivelants) and yet ALL the models shown in their catalogues are never larger than an 18 EVER! 2. The clothes are very obviously designed for the size 16's and then exponentially increased in size for the bigger sizes. This of course means they 9 times out of 10 look ridiculous on me as they don't hang right and certainly haven't been designed to flatter or assist the large figure at all. 3. At least 90% of the sales staff in the stores are size 10-12 nymphettes, and I really hate having to ask them questions and purchase my clothes from them. What ever happened to the idea that the sales people were supposed to be able to wear the clothes they were selling? 4. As we are a captive market in a way, they get away with unbelievably shoddy workmanship and material, and inflate their prices to boot. They also totally dictate the fashions and styles I can buy. I haven't bought a long sleeved top for 3 years because they are all 3/4 length sleeve in style and I can't stand that. 5. And one that totally irks me the most; they always overstock the sizes 16-20 (sizes that are available in at least a dozen other far less expensive and far more trendy High Street shops in the UK) and understock the larger sizes, so much so, that unless I happen to be in the store on the day when the new stock comes in I can hardly ever find my size in something I like. And if I want anything really smart or flattering I used to have to ration myself to one outfit a every few years because I would get it from a very high class designer store called 16/47 (Started and owned by Dawn French the very large and very wonderful English Comedienne with her personal designer), so called because it is understood that47% of UK women are size 16 or over. The stuff is wonderful but incredibly expensive. These days I found myself a wonderful store in Los Angeles, and when I make my now annual pilgrimage to the Xena Con (WooHOO not long now!!) I bring an extra suitcase and stock up on some wonderfully designed, comfortable and incredibly affordable clothes from Abundance (great name) up in Sherman Oaks. Heh o.k rant over. XV
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 10, 2006 10:08:09 GMT -6
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