TARGET SHOULD DO AN INVESTIGATION INTO BRA WIRES

We know we have done a few posts on bras, but after 2300 km of driving in Australia - much over rutted dirt roads, in a V6 Commodore with low profile tyres - we have given our bras a serious work out. And our latest black lacy 18dd is now stuffed.

We are pretty sure that the underwire is made from recycled skodas. These days our underwire bras last about 4 months then either it busts (sorry about the pun) or gets really bent out of shape. One wire recently gave up the good fight in a meeting and the sound of the snap was loud enough to be heard by the others in the room . It was a long moment. We coughed loudly and scraped our chair but one other big breasted chick in the room - gave me a knowing wink. I fessed up and everyone was deeply sympathetic.

Anyway, I reckon that this is one for the consumer champions, Target to investigate. - Put some underwire bras under some stress tests and see which brands come up trumps.

We and our two best assets would be eternally grateful and considering the price of a good bra, if we had to replace them less often we would save enough money to stock up on champers for Cactus's next visit.

BIG GIRLS WIN WAR ON TIT TAX

Women all over Britain have been outraged after Marks and Spencer started charging an extra two quid for bras with DD cups and over.

We have huge sympathy with these women
<---- Not BB.
Silly buggers - pommie queen size women obviously weren't going to take that sort of sizeist nonsense lying down.

Based on my humble experience with pommie men - ( married one once ) they are a nation of tit men so this campaign garnered some nationwide support quicker than a 15 year old boy could ping a bra strap.

Marks and Sparks reckoned it cost extra to make DD cup over the shoulder boulder holders.Crap said the "big breasted don't mess with us" team. They weren't being charged for big sized clothing so the argument appeared as realistic as Pamela Andersons left one.

So more than 8000 signing up to support a Facebook campaign run by Busts 4 Justice, which branded the extra charge for bigger bras an "unfair tit-tax".

National newspapers joined their cause, attacking M&S over its pricing policy and recruiting all sorts of voluptuous celebrities to comment on how unfair they thought it was.

The mass market Daily Mail began offering discount M&S vouchers so its readers wouldn't have to fork out any extra for larger size bras.

The Sun tabloid, famous for its Page 3 topless models, also urged M&S: "Hands off our boobs".

Finally after days of controversy - and bucketloads of negative publicity for M&S - the retailer's dapper chief executive Sir Stuart Rose backed down and announced an end to the bigger bra cost with the simple admission: "We boobed."

Yip we agree they made right tits of themselves.

Not sure why Busted blonde wasnt invited to this!

Not me!!!
or the woman in the story - I just thought this model was a good way of showing why some assets need more attention!




From the Waikato Times
Strutting the real stuff
"Real-sized women" like Hamilton trainee midwife Jo Hart will strut the catwalk in new designs at Air New Zealand Fashion Week today.
Ms Hart will model for plus-sized fashion label The Carpenters Daughter (TCD), after auditioning for the role.
It is the first time fashions for larger women have been allowed at the Fashion Week, since most designer ranges stop at size 12 or 14.
Models are usually up to size eight, but typically much thinner.
Ms Hart has taken some advice from her grandmother to the Auckland extravaganza.
"One thing my nana told me is, `don't be all grim like those other models'."
Miss Hart said the modelling gig would take her outside her comfort zone, but she considered it was important for women to see plus-size models on the runway.
"I'm pretty confident anyway, and happy in myself, so I'm going to walk out there and smile," she said.
The average-sized Kiwi woman was between a size 14 and a size 16, said TCD owner and designer Caroline Mar.
"They wanted me to use models only up to size 20, because they thought when you get to a certain size, the clothing doesn't photograph well," Mar said.
"But I've broken the rules.
"It's my show, and they are my girls and it's a concrete floor so it is not going to break."
During the 1pm public show, before an audience of up to 500, 15 women ranging in size from 14 to 24 will model TCD's spring/summer range on the runway.
TCD has four retail stores in Auckland, Hamilton East, Wellington and Christchurch and has been operating for 19 years.