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Big-Bottomed Mannequins Boost Profile in New York
Christine Kearney ^ | Fri, Nov 12, 2004

Posted on 11/12/2004 9:52:39 AM PST by 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."


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To: presidio9
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.


21 posted on 11/12/2004 9:58:11 AM PST by rdb3 (The Black GOP vote numbers are up, and they WILL go higher. -- rdb3 "Hip-Hop FReeper")
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To: mhking

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


22 posted on 11/12/2004 9:58:16 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: presidio9
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)
23 posted on 11/12/2004 9:58:19 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: presidio9

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.


24 posted on 11/12/2004 9:58:39 AM PST by Darksheare (Personality shattered and horribly twisted, the humor flows out through the cracks.)
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To: smith288

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


25 posted on 11/12/2004 9:58:47 AM PST by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: presidio9; finnman69

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

26 posted on 11/12/2004 9:59:03 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Touche, beat me by 3 seconds!


27 posted on 11/12/2004 9:59:24 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: presidio9
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)

28 posted on 11/12/2004 9:59:28 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: presidio9

29 posted on 11/12/2004 9:59:34 AM PST by Chinito (6990th Security Squadron - RC135 - Combat Apple '69)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LMAO!


30 posted on 11/12/2004 9:59:54 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Bikers4Bush
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.


31 posted on 11/12/2004 10:00:09 AM PST by rdb3 (The Black GOP vote numbers are up, and they WILL go higher. -- rdb3 "Hip-Hop FReeper")
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To: presidio9
OK, somebody's got to post the link . . .

De clunibus magnis amandis oratio

32 posted on 11/12/2004 10:00:14 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: presidio9
Mix-A-Lot ping.

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

Oh yeah. It's Friday on FR alright.

33 posted on 11/12/2004 10:00:36 AM PST by retrokitten (Hell yeah!)
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To: kimchi lover

You could fit two Ann Coulters in those jeans.


34 posted on 11/12/2004 10:00:43 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: theFIRMbss; shaggy eel

"The bigger the cushion" ping!


35 posted on 11/12/2004 10:00:45 AM PST by ErnBatavia (ErnBatavia, Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham....the ultimate Menage a Quatro)
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To: FormerACLUmember
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

36 posted on 11/12/2004 10:00:45 AM PST by Geezerette (... but young at heart!-)
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To: theFIRMbss

There is that.


37 posted on 11/12/2004 10:01:19 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: Chinito

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


38 posted on 11/12/2004 10:01:23 AM PST by retrokitten (Hell yeah!)
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To: Constitution Day
Dang! Ya beat me to it while I was hunting for the link!

Sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest

39 posted on 11/12/2004 10:01:33 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: presidio9

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.


40 posted on 11/12/2004 10:01:35 AM PST by old3030 (Religion would not have enemies if it were not an enemy to their vices.-- Massillon.)
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