Posted on 11/10/2005 9:14:42 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
This past spring, China's biggest lingerie manufacturer, Top Form Inc., set up an unusual kind of laboratory. Situated in a four-story facility here, near the southern border town of Shenzhen, the lab has equipment that includes molds resembling oversized bullets. Surrounded by these molds, workers struggle to unlock the mysteries underlying such phenomena as the seamless brassiere and the shape-retaining bra cup.
"We spend a lot of time on how to make a better bra," says Willie Fung, chief executive of Top Form, which makes 61 million bras a year under well-known labels such as Victoria's Secret, Playtex and Maidenform.
China's biggest bra makers have invested in bra-research centers, bra towns (where most of the businesses are exclusively devoted to bras), and have even generated enough demand for the creation of a degree course in bra studies, started this year at Hong Kong's Polytechnic University.
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Willie Fung?!!! Ha!Ha!Ha! Maybe they will design the Manzier!!! Or was it the Bro?!!!
Chinese Try to Build Better Bra
Thought yinz might be interested.
that's as bad as the story the other day about the microwave bras being sold "to help cut down on global warming".
global warming, eh?
marteen can be found on just about any bra thread, but don't know why yunz are pinging ME... ; )
Howse about one model that comes with a remote control?
Would be "efficient" on date night...
I majored in bra studies in college.
I mean I mojoed in bra studies in college.
Thought maybe yinz were tired of the ol' Army/Navy surplus.
Maybe we can find one to match yer babushka 'nat...
Afterall, it IS almost Sparkle Season 'nat!!!
LMAO! yeah, one of those nice gaudy floral jobs!

There.
Don't say I never gave yunz nuthin' fer Sparkle Season 'n'at.
ooh thanks, how thoughtful, marteen!
Kinda like the one ya useta have back in 5th grade... ain't it?
I dint know they still made 'em anymore...
marteen musta found it in Gimbel's basement...
Ats the only place I can think might still have 'em.
Jenkins Arcade closed along time ago.
OooohhhhHHHHHhh!
I love sequins!
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