Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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I know you're just making a recommendation, but isn't the point that fashion labels should really be catering for the general bell-curve (I guess in more than one sense) of the human population?
Yep and we do have some in NZ. Moa has 5 designers and they do consider the hour glass figure,( ok, bell curve) also Trelise Cooper caters to that , and the jeans you mentioned have always come in super taper, 3 different lengths and way up there in the waist department. The 508 that was around several years back was a levis design catering to a NZ customer and was only made here which was an international label considering our nations needs. My mention of a couple of alternatives to that was because there are labels out there that are catering and if everyone started doing it.... then common as muck and in a dog eat dog world, fashion labels seem a perfect example of wanting to be top dog so perception wins and that is slim. just sayin'
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The corsets are beautiful! Got 2, both from Victoria's Secret in New York. Thankfully gifted from my mad insane wonderful Aunt. :) Undies on the outside......
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@ Jackie (and anyone else interested)
Haven't been myself, but have seen the clothing on, there is The Carpenter's Daughter (TCD) shop at the end of Mt Eden Rd,turn left, down a bit (opp Stacks Furniture) on Mt Albert Rd. They cater for the fuller figure.I suspect you may like it.Worth a try.Also over Mt Albert Rd along Dominion Rd on the right was a womens shop for the fuller figure and seen that stuff on a friend and it was really fine. -
I hope Auckland's ICU is a bit more modern and less run down now
I was in ICU at the end of 2004 and it was in the new part of Ak Hospital. I suspect that it was much better than 2003 because it was still being finished downstairs at reception when I was transferred to the neuro ward.My last days in ICU revealed a lockdown system for an emergency and it wasn't an easy place to get into. Staff response seemed very efficient and timely when there was a patient who got into difficulty so I think it is better than it used to be.
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hey! Even tho it's a "Not Helping thread, i'll add Walnuts, blue vein, apples and cramalised onion and tommato paste on pizza base. yummy :)
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So don't go knocking bikes as toys for rich folk.
I certainly wasn't suggesting that and if you thought that, my point wasn't made at all then.My only concern is that in this economic gloom, we are supposed to be in,a cycleway does not seem to me to be a brilliant idea.Anyway, the article I was looking for was this. It was someone else's idea
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because as Key admitted afterwards it came from him, not from the attendees on the day.
There was an article in granny all about it being someone elses idea actually. Yes , I will go find it :)Hang on a mo.
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Seriously, I've never been able to get that bitter on my parent's generation just because of the accident of their birth-time, any more than my grannies' generation who perfected the art of slaughter, despite many of the best intentions.
Agree, nowadays I look back and thank them also.Great drugs,great clothes,great sounds, birthday new years eve, great celebrations.great country.
RB sits highly amongst a few
A fine bit of writing RB I look forward to the up dated version.
Me too. That just took me way back then and got all nostalgic for a mo'.The weird thing for me is that after being being back a couple of years ,it was '91 that felt like I was home and I loved it.
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It's not cycleway OR feeding starving
For you perhaps but for factory staff layoffs, buying bicycles, helmets and lycras wont be the first thing they spend there redundancy on.
I like the cycleway idea less as a response to recession, more just a good, simple idea that could benefit enterprising persons along its path.
Which could be a great idea when we are all more secure again. Not everyone is as enterprising as one might hope also.The first losing their jobs have been big business factory layoffs.
I'm quite happy for this 'economic brainstorming' to actually do some good for a change, in a purely conventional way,
Then perhaps it could have given a different impression at the start.We had Social services and Doctors conventions cancelled whilst a job summit deemed worthy, but I guess it depends on the order of importance, and it may be my twisted logic, but for me it feels like a cycleway is pampering, softening up for privatization or big business yet again.Doom and gloom!Slowly, slowly catchy monkey. We will have to sell, sell,sell. I need coffee!
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Sofie, the cycleway isn't even on that list.
Yes it is, (9 march-link to check the list)I think it was the first link from what you posted. I gottago check now.