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Chinese Textile Companies Aim to Build Better Bra
Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/9/05 | Mei Fong

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: advanceddegree; bra
No wonder the U.S. is falling behind China. The "feminist studies" programs at our universities focused on the wrong things.
1 posted on 11/10/2005 9:14:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Willie Fung?!!! Ha!Ha!Ha! Maybe they will design the Manzier!!! Or was it the Bro?!!!


2 posted on 11/10/2005 9:18:35 AM PST by LYSandra
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Other story bouncing around here:
Chinese Try to Build Better Bra

3 posted on 11/10/2005 9:18:47 AM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: martin_fierro; xsmommy

Thought yinz might be interested.


4 posted on 11/10/2005 9:27:03 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green

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?


5 posted on 11/10/2005 9:29:40 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: Willie Green; martin_fierro

marteen can be found on just about any bra thread, but don't know why yunz are pinging ME... ; )


6 posted on 11/10/2005 9:31:29 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Howse about one model that comes with a remote control?

Would be "efficient" on date night...


7 posted on 11/10/2005 9:33:27 AM PST by TexanToTheCore (Rock the pews, Baby)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I majored in bra studies in college.
I mean I mojoed in bra studies in college.


8 posted on 11/10/2005 9:35:07 AM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: xsmommy; martin_fierro
but don't know why yunz are pinging ME... ; )

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!!!

9 posted on 11/10/2005 9:41:52 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
Maybe we can find one to match yer babushka 'nat...

LMAO! yeah, one of those nice gaudy floral jobs!

10 posted on 11/10/2005 9:42:59 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Willie Green

There.

Don't say I never gave yunz nuthin' fer Sparkle Season 'n'at.

11 posted on 11/10/2005 9:45:07 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

ooh thanks, how thoughtful, marteen!


12 posted on 11/10/2005 9:45:48 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; martin_fierro
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.

13 posted on 11/10/2005 10:23:52 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: martin_fierro

OooohhhhHHHHHhh!

I love sequins!


14 posted on 11/10/2005 10:27:01 AM PST by najida (Sometimes the only justice we'll ever get is having our story heard.)
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