If clothing designers say their outfits look best while jumping off a bridge, do we do that too?

[slemslempike]

I found this site linked through Hoyden About Town.

Two further things I hated are:

1. "Our bras are designed to position the breasts halfway between the shoulder and the elbow, which is what clothing designers intended."

Yes. Definitely the solution to this problem of clothes not fitting is for bodies to fit the whims of the designers, not to encourage designers to recognise that there is no one body size and shape and maybe there could be a broader range of fits and styles.

2. "You cannot slouch in our bras."

I DO NOT WANT CLOTHES IN WHICH I CANNOT SLOUCH. I like slouching. I know it's not "attractive", (and probably makes clothing designers really mad) but that doesn't say "comfort" to me, it says "constricting".


Our windows are in. But I don't have a curtain rail anymore, something to do with the supports being too brittle. Which is fine, we can get a new one. But I don't know how to put it up and I'm worried I'll do it wrong and it will all break.

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[owl]

My mother always says the opposite, which seems more sensible to me--if you have a band that's tight enough not to move, you'd think that it would be squashing your lymph ducts as well. Is that not why you're meant to take your bra off at night?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem a good idea to wear constricting clothing that constricts in the same place 24 hours a day simply for the sake of the skin. But trying to think about where the bits of the lymphatic system actually are, I don't think that a tight band would restrict it, because the band basically goes round the ribs, and the ribs are on the 'outside' of the body, as it were, with vessels inside them.

Ah, Google points me to some bad science - it looks like this one is an urban myth.