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    Knickers In A Twist

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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    Wow, she was such a big, giant, enormous fat-fat-gross-fattie, that explains why she was also such a loser in life who never did anything and was reviled and shunned. OH, WAIT.

    And word to what everyone has said about the sizes/material/measurements etc. But heaven forfend anyone talk about that when we can hold them up and shout "FAT-ASS!"
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    Image of jfwlucy jfwlucy
    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    56" is even bigger than you think because people were so smalll back then. I have seen Emily Bronte's shoe up close at Haworth and it is literally as narrow as my small wrist and just a bit longe than my hand. All the displays of Civil War uniforms I have seen look as if they were made for 14 year olds.

    But I love Queen Victoria.
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    09/08/09

    @jfwlucy: I saw an exhibit of Napoleon and Josephine's clothing and furniture last year, and damn, those people were miniature.
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    Image of nerdycellist nerdycellist
    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    sorry, boring undies explanation... there was no elastic in these drawers, meaning they were probably more like drawstring pants. I'd take at least 5" off that measurement when guessing at the waistline of a dead monarch.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    Just a thought, but wouldn't they have been cinched in with a drawstring? I mean, she was clearly a round woman, but I suspect undergarments were made pretty loosely.
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    09/08/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: Yes.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    So much for Victoria's secret, now everybody knows.
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    09/08/09

    @BabyJane: No fair! Why did that joke escape me?!?!?
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    09/08/09

    @BabyJane: Oops, I just repeated that below. You won that one!
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    Okay, I know they're delicate historical items, but I would be really offended if someone was holding my bloomers with gloves on, implying I had dirty undies.
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    09/08/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Luckily, she's dead.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    While I am sure some people really want to see all that there is to see with regard to the royals, all I can think of is: She ruled England, Her cousin ruled France, those are Queen Victoria's underpants!
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    It's fascinating that no matter how high your station in life, no matter how much you accomplish, no matter how important you are during your lifetime, eventually you will become a curiosity. That's the real momento mundi -- not that you die, but that your reverence goes with you.
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    09/08/09

    @mbprice: I'm trying to decide if there is any comfort in knowing that one's underwear can live on. I'm going out on a limb here to say no, no there isn't.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    This is why I vacuum seal all of my bloomers once I've tired of them...
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Knickers In A Twist
    Well, to be fair that's a 50" waist in 1890's sizes.
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    09/08/09

    @keldo: Back when inches were smaller.
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    09/08/09

    @keldo: You beat me to it!
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    09/08/09

    @keldo: And when Marilyn Monroe was just a twinkle in her grandmother's eye.
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    09/08/09

    @keldo: Why of course. Now, she'd be a size starfish in drawers, and a size pink suitcase on top. Good luck finding anything at Victoria's Secret, not that she'd deign to wear much of that tack.
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    09/08/09

    @liberatedword: I think these bloomers were Victoria's Secret!
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    09/08/09

    @CurtCole: How big a twinkle?
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    09/08/09

    @keldo: has everyone udpated their spreadsheet?
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    09/08/09

    @this_mad_woman: Oh, I'm so behind on the sizes these days.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to Slumdog Star Freida Pinto Makes Cover Of Indian Vogue
    I have a dream, and that dream is pants.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to Slumdog Star Freida Pinto Makes Cover Of Indian Vogue
    If H&M is expanding, they should expand into selling plus-sized clothing again. The BiB line was hit-or-miss, but it at least offered the option of clothing beyond the occasional size 14 and verrrry hard to find 16 in stores. BiB is still offered in Europe, so it wouldn't be that difficult to reintroduce it to America.

    It seems like H&M is missing out on a huge (no pun intended) section of the general public by not selling larger sizes.
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    Image of suck_it_monkeys suck_it_monkeys
    02/25/09

    In reply to Slumdog Star Freida Pinto Makes Cover Of Indian Vogue
    H&M is expanding AGAIN but still no Denver store. Over the course of many years I've shopeped at H&M in Santa Monica, San Francisco, Lisbon, Munich, and I tried to go to the one in Seville, Spain but it was closed so I posed for a picture out front like a freak. Cheap Swedish fashion, I will follow you anywhere! Now come to my city, you heartless tease!
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    02/25/09

    In reply to Slumdog Star Freida Pinto Makes Cover Of Indian Vogue
    Creating clothing that does not sell in the interest of cultivating "dreams" makes about as much financial sense as me freely distributing pornographic pictures of myself because I just love thinking about people whacking off to me.
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    02/25/09

    In reply to Slumdog Star Freida Pinto Makes Cover Of Indian Vogue
    Wait, an Indian woman on the cover of Indian Vouge? That made me clutch my pearls.
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