Big-Bottomed Mannequins Boost Profile in New York

Christine Kearney ^ | Fri, Nov 12, 2004

[presidio9]

.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow. The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides appearing in shop windows across New York.

Bootylicious figures clad in tight low-rise jeans have spilled from the city's street fashion stores into more established labels.

"It's absolutely the trend," said Dwight Critchfield, creative director for mannequin firm Goldsmith.

"These mannequins look great, and there is a real sex appeal about them."

The recent pop culture fixation on large bottoms has been around since at least 1992, when rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot scored a hit with "Baby Got Back."

But some credit the recent booty shakin' efforts of shapely stars Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce for the fresh emphasis on bigger and rounder posteriors, coupled with the fashion explosion of the Brazilian-style low-rise jeans.

"J.Lo was the first to stress that women shouldn't be afraid to show their curves, and the popularity of rap made that shape more acceptable," said Critchfield. "And it is about these low-riding jeans looking good on a sexy, tight fit."

The company launched a "Sex" mannequin with "a larger booty and body" tailored for fashion label Express and for stores carrying lower-end trend clothing, said Critchfield.

On the juniors' floor of Macy's in Manhattan, Guess jeans and streetwear label EckoRed display jeans on a fuller rear-end bottom-half mannequin, known as a pants form, opposite a large poster of J.Lo and her clothing label, while a DJ mixes hip hop and reggae to teen and 20-something shoppers.

EckoRed launched the new mannequin -- called the J.Lo butt form -- at the store almost two years ago and sales have since tripled.

"It is a serious sociological trend that is positive for retailers and customers in that the tyranny of the undernourished perfect model is over," said Rich Rollison of Lifestyle Forms and Display, which designed the pants form mannequin.

Other companies also are developing more realistic mannequins with larger posteriors in maternity and plus sizes.

U.S. label Lane Bryant, which caters to plus sizes 14 to 28, is launching a more voluptuous full-body mannequin across its 250 stores after a successful test run in New York.

"It originated from urban ethnic street wear, but it has transcended that," Rollison said. "Now you are going to see it projected in more urban markets and it will get bigger."

[presidio9]

[foreverfree]

bump

[saveliberty]

Where oh where is Spinal Tap?

[freemama]

In my state, these are about average backsides!

[Bikers4Bush]

Just looks like a bunch of big fat asses to me. Nothing sexy about em'.

[presidio9]

Mix-A-Lot ping.

[FormerACLUmember]

Next come tree trunk Hillary-sized mannequin legs!

[kimchi lover]

"bump"

More like TWO bumps. ;^)

[Semper Paratus]

Where oh where is Spinal Tap?

Where is Sir Mix-a-Lot?
"Big Butted Dummies"

[johniegrad]

Cankles.

[dead]

"These mannequins look great, and there is a real sex appeal about them."
- Dwight Critchfield, creative director for mannequin firm Goldsmith

He could be a character in “Silence of the Lambs IV”.

[najida]

Nice to see bottoms that look like mine...

(Those good ole' austrian birthin' hips never go away).

[Tijeras_Slim]

[AppyPappy]

LA Face with an Oakland booty

[proust]

"the tyranny of the undernourished perfect model is over,"

And the tyranny of fat @ssed slobs has begun.

[smith288]

[kimchi lover]

"Just looks like a bunch of big fat asses to me. Nothing sexy about em'

If that's fat in your book, you must think Ann Coulter could shed a few pounds.
Nothing wrong with a round bottom...sure beats a flat rear end any day.

[theFIRMbss]

>Just looks like a bunch of big fat asses to me. Nothing sexy about em'

You know, boats that have
heavy ballast down below
give a nice, smooth ride . . .

[NorthGA]

I remember a song lyric of "big bottomed girls - you make the rocking world go round..."

[Tensgrrl]

Yeah right, now try to find a pair of jean to fit the figure of a real woman!

[rdb3]

Well, uh, yeah. There's nothing wrong with that...

heh heh

I just with that my brothers from other mothers of other colors admit that they like women with curves, not just beanpoles, walking mops, or women who can hide behind six-o'clock.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Are you gonna take me home tonight ?
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out ?
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery - huh
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!
Wooh

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen every blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies everytime

C'mon
Oh won't you take me home tonight ?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here
Now I got mortgages on homes
I got stiffness in ma' bones
Ain't no beauty Queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still get my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me

Now get this
Oh (I know) you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out ?
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round yeah
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Get on your bikes and ride
Ooh yeah oh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Alright, ride 'em, c'mon
Fat bottomed girls - yes yes

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah, down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin world go round

Hey, I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me, Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire, across the land
I seen every blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies everytime, come on

Oh, won't you take me home tonight
Oh, down beside your red firelight
Oh, and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin world go round (twice)

Hey, listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I've got stiffness in your bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still get my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me

Oh, you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh, down beside that red firelight
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin world go round
(2 times)
Get on your bikes and ride
Fat bottomed girls (2 times)

[Darksheare]

Someone asked me what men's fascination was with big bottomed girls..
(Freddy Mercury singing about fat bottomed girls was just WRONG)

My response was something akin to don't squeeze the charmin.

[lugsoul]

"The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand -
or so I have read."

[Constitution Day]

Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Touche, beat me by 3 seconds!

[Robert357]

Interesting! Maybe this plus Queen Lateva's (sp?) popularity are a sign that society is moving to a new Rubenesque cultural period. It wouldn't be the first time such things have happened.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Maybe some of the liberals are right, maybe it is time to leave the US for another country? (/sarcasm)

[Chinito]

[Constitution Day]

LMAO!

[rdb3]

Just looks like a bunch of big fat asses to me. Nothing sexy about em'.

Then you wouldn't know sexiness on a woman if it slapped you upside your head.

[AnAmericanMother]

OK, somebody's got to post the link . . .

De clunibus magnis amandis oratio

[retrokitten]

Mix-A-Lot ping.

There is a Sir Mix-a-lot ping list??

Oh yeah. It's Friday on FR alright.

[Bikers4Bush]

You could fit two Ann Coulters in those jeans.

[ErnBatavia]

"The bigger the cushion" ping!

[Geezerette]

This thread will not be complete until someone posts that graphic of Hillary from the back with her celulite shakin' & bakin'!

She's wearing a swim suit I think ... and I assume it's really her, except the movement of the butt area!

g

[Bikers4Bush]

There is that.

[retrokitten]

What's wrong with thier eyes??? LOL! Good thing they don't need glasses.

[AnAmericanMother]

Dang! Ya beat me to it while I was hunting for the link!

Sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest

[old3030]

Old3030's fashion tips --

OK. For all you ladies and young women out there, take note. There is a significant difference between a full, shapely posterior and a big flabbly one. Nothing wrong with the big flabby ones, mind you, it's just that they don't belong in skin-tight low-rise jeans. That's what mu-mu's are for.

And to be perfectly fair -- almost all guys look better with their shirts ON. Loose shirts -- that means no hairy skin showing in gaping holes between the buttons.

You have been warned.

[Bikers4Bush]

There's nothing sexy about a giant bubble butt.

And no it doesn't get any sexier when I can see the XXL thong out of the top of it either.

[Xenalyte]

It's called "Fat-Bottomed Girls," and it's by Queen, surprisingly. It was on the B side of the "Bicycle" single, I think.

Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin’ world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I’ve been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen ev’ry blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won’t you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round

Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Get on your bikes and ride

Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes

[Betis70]

>>"J.Lo was the first to stress that women shouldn't be afraid to show their curves, and the popularity of rap made that shape more acceptable," said Critchfield. "And it is about these low-riding jeans looking good on a sexy, tight fit."

Well for me it was Selena who showed off her rounded bottom (not the movie, the actual singer) way before Lopez became popular. Can't say I've ever liked the stick figure look.

[madvlad]

Fat bottomed girls!!

I was just a skinny lad;
never knew no good from bad;
but I knew life before
I left my nursery;
left alone with big fat Fanny;
she was such a naughty nanny;
heap big woman
you done made a big man of me!

Now get this;
Oh, won;t you take me home tonight;
ah down beside that red fire light;
Oh, won't you give it all you got;
fat bottomed girls
you make the rockin' world go round.

Get on yer bikes and ride!

By Queen.

MV

[wideawake]

As an individual who is so Caucasian that he is practically translucent, I have to affirm: there is nothing wrong with the booty.

[Constitution Day]

Heh heh. I have it bookmarked. :)

[Xenalyte]

That was poetic!

[GraniteStateConservative]

Freddie Mercury may have been a fag, but he could sing the sh!t out of a song.

[retrokitten]

Ask and you shall receive...

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

"It originated from urban ethnic street wear, but it has transcended that," Rollison said. "Now you are going to see it projected in more urban markets and it will get bigger."

"It will get bigger"...the bottoms or the trend? Maybe Lane Bryant will be the new "In" place to shop.