Size 14....YAHOO!

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Size 14....YAHOO!
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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 8:56pm

So tina got in town today and since we have this really hot, secretive date with my husband tomorrow night, we were told to have some nice clothes.

  Shawna-- Proud Cl for 100 Pounds or More to Go 

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Registered: 06-05-2003
Sun, 12-21-2003 - 11:03pm
wwooooooo hoooooo and congratz!!!!!!

and take a picture for your page.

Blessings,

S_C

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Registered: 12-06-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 12:32am

YAYYY SHAWNA!!! CONGRATS!


As S_C said..please post a new pic soon!

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Registered: 12-02-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 1:38am
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

You have got to be floating! Have a great time!

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:06am
Absolutely AWESOME!!!!!! Huge congratulations, and have a super time on your hot date!

Mickie

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:43am
congrats vox! :)
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 2:08pm
Congrats! Hope you gals have a fun and safe time!
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 2:35pm
If you can't make it, you can fake it. In fact, the clothing manufacturers are in collusion with the delusional-by-choice. And it's long been known that yesterday's size 18 is today's size 14. The designers have been doing it many years, but cheap clothing in the fat shops like Lane Bryant are obviously cut bigger and always were. The theory is, if you go into a store and can fit into a size 14, when really size 18, then you'll feel good and spend more money. Didn't you know that about Lane Bryant? That's how that particular chain was designed to work: cheap quality clothing cut big and sold $$.

Before one feels deliriously deluded and loads up on lying labels, here

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0BDW/39_40/56917431/p1/article.jhtml

One article, from fashion design industry:

"Ladies, what size do you wear? Pig! Porker! Heifer! That's what you are--or at least what you think you are. Never mind you answered size 2. You still have not "met goal." You know it, and now I know it, having just read this scary story in the New York Daily News.

"Not that long ago, a stylish woman rejoiced to call herself a size 6," it pronounced. "In this time of celebrity X-rays, however, the Calista Flockharts and Courteney Coxes are telegraphing that the new size 'goal' is 0--and in accordance with that fact, everywhere from Banana Republic to Barneys, the size range that used to begin at 4 now starts at the vanishing point."

Well, shut my (Mallomar-filled) mouth. This is news to me, despite my incessant in-store snooping and the fact that I am closer in size to C and C than to, say, Rosie or Rosanne.

But here's the good news for shoppers: If you can't make it, you can fake it. In fact, the designers are in collusion with the delusional-by-choice. Reportedly Anne Klein was one of the first designers to downsize her sizes--it's widely known that her 8 was yesterday's 10--but in recent years, this designated size-shrinkage has been spiraling downward at dizzying speeds. So much so that a Sag Harbor, N.Y., vintage-clothing retailer says her second-hand size-14 Puccis can only be squeezed into by today's size-6-wearing customer, which "drives people nuts, because everybody wants to be a small size. So I just take the labels out..."

Now here's the good news for you marketers: Join us in the dance of denial, artificially deflate those digits, give us a size we savor and we're your sales slaves. Listen to the womanly wisdom of designer Rebecca Taylor sizing up her "sisters": "If you're a size 4 and you fit into a 2, you feel fantastic, slim and gorgeous. But if you try on size-4 pants that don't fit, and you have to take a size 6, you're not going to buy those pants, because you'll feel devastated."

But there's no need for us to feel devastated and--you caught those key words above: *"not ... buy"*--when we can feel deliriously deluded and load up on lying labels. And pretty lies are what we lust for. Have you ever heard anyone complain, "Damn, how did I drop a dress size?" despite the bedeviling fact that as sizes keep getting smaller, we keep getting bigger. Stats say the current generation is the most overweight since, well, since stats have been kept, and no slow-down's in sight. Whew, good thing manufacturers are finally hopping on those size 0s, eh?

Don't know if denial, as a trait, is often twinned with testy, but there was a recent letter to Ann Landers from a size "22W or 24W" reader: "It is damaging enough to admit I wear those sizes, but why must there be a 'W' after the number? Do the manufacturers think I don't know my butt is Wide? Do they have to remind me ... (blather, snort, froth, growl)." Missouri, as she signed herself, needed to be shown: ''W'' stands for "women."

It's not just clothing makers, of course, that traffic in fantasy figures or tricky terminology, the translations of which consumers know, when we care to conjure them. For example, we've all figured out that the "large" size of many grocery items is, in fact, the smallest one. OK, maybe not Missouri; but most understand this common code. We know if we want something really large, as opposed to labeled "large," we have to look for "economy-size, "jumbo-size," "we-don't-practice-birth-control-in-our-family-size," whatever."

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 2:41pm
Is that your poor attempt to bash my excitment?

  Shawna-- Proud Cl for 100 Pounds or More to Go 

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 2:53pm

Pat! Didn't you say your H was taking you on a cruise for Christmas? Miss the boat?!


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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 2:57pm

Shawna, You rock! i'm Sooooo proud of you, you are still my inspiration!


May your Christmas be a very merry one indeed!


Deb


Deb 270/228/145ish  (updated 4/19/04. Next weigh-in: 6/1/04)

 

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