Comments on: Family Movie Night: A Hit and A Miss http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Mon, 11 May 2026 18:04:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528&cpage=1#comment-19241 girldetective Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:49:35 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528#comment-19241 I wore Liz Claiborne in high school in the 80s, I interviewed with them after college, and I wore it again in the early 00s when I was in the corporate world. In high school I was a size 12. Twenty years later, at about the same size, I was an 8. I applaud what's he saying, but Liz, like Banana and so many other retailers, have done this weird thing with size distortion that I'm just not comfortable with, so it makes me wonder, is he talking about an 80's size 12, or a (oh my goodness, how to I shorthand this decade?) more recent one? I wore Liz Claiborne in high school in the 80s, I interviewed with them after college, and I wore it again in the early 00s when I was in the corporate world. In high school I was a size 12. Twenty years later, at about the same size, I was an 8. I applaud what’s he saying, but Liz, like Banana and so many other retailers, have done this weird thing with size distortion that I’m just not comfortable with, so it makes me wonder, is he talking about an 80’s size 12, or a (oh my goodness, how to I shorthand this decade?) more recent one?

]]> By: MFS http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528&cpage=1#comment-19226 MFS Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:37:15 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528#comment-19226 Hey, did you see the Tim Gunn Q&A I linked over at M-mv? The Misses and I heart Tim. (Even if he does loathe Crocs. *smile*) I quoted a different bit on M-mv, but I like this bit, too: What problem would you most like this next generation of designers to solve? Women who are larger than a size 12 are a very dismissed population. I feel that designers are thumbing their noses at these individuals, and it’s done disrespectfully, without any real concern for the challenges of dressing a larger woman. I have to say I am really intent, speaking for my day job at Liz Claiborne Inc., on having our Liz Claiborne brand address this, and get it right. Hey, did you see the Tim Gunn Q&A I linked over at M-mv? The Misses and I heart Tim. (Even if he does loathe Crocs. *smile*)

I quoted a different bit on M-mv, but I like this bit, too:

What problem would you most like this next generation of designers to solve?
Women who are larger than a size 12 are a very dismissed population. I feel that designers are thumbing their noses at these individuals, and it’s done disrespectfully, without any real concern for the challenges of dressing a larger woman. I have to say I am really intent, speaking for my day job at Liz Claiborne Inc., on having our Liz Claiborne brand address this, and get it right.

]]> By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528&cpage=1#comment-19220 girldetective Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:19:27 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528#comment-19220 M, the boys complained that there wasn't enough fighting. Sigh. M, the boys complained that there wasn’t enough fighting. Sigh.

]]> By: MFS http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528&cpage=1#comment-19207 MFS Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:21:40 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3528#comment-19207 Loved, loved, loved The Secret of Roan Inish. The girls were older, though, and, well, girls. (*grin*) That was a neat summer of movies -- just two years ago now: http://mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com/2002/08/movie-tie-ins.html I'm pretty sure you would love many of the films the girls and I saw. Your boys, though? Not so much. (Although Nim's Island, maybe.) Loved, loved, loved The Secret of Roan Inish. The girls were older, though, and, well, girls. (*grin*) That was a neat summer of movies — just two years ago now:

http://mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com/2002/08/movie-tie-ins.html

I’m pretty sure you would love many of the films the girls and I saw. Your boys, though? Not so much. (Although Nim’s Island, maybe.)

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