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What is Pilates?
Pilates, pioneered by the late Joseph Pilates, is a mind-body exercise system designed to strengthen the weak, and challenge the strong. Pilates (1880-1967) was a German expatriate who first made his mark in England during WWI when he developed a series of exercises, and innovative equipment to help prisoners of war regain strength and mobility. When Joseph Pilates immigrated to New York, the local professional dance community discovered that his conditioning techniques helped prevent injury and improve strength while maintaining long, even muscle tone- this sparked a vast following of the method of exercise.
Why is Pilates the fastest-growing method of exercise?
People are becoming increasingly more interested in fitness modalities that help relieve stress. they're also much more interested in prevention and taking care of their bodies. they want to stay fit and look good for as long as possible. Pilates is complementary to many traditional ways of working out. it's excellent for all ages, fitness levels and goals. its mind-body aspect is even said to be useful in preventing stress-related illnesses like heart disease.
Can anyone do Pilates?
No form of exercise is appropriate for everyone, but Pilates is appropriate for most people. As with any exercise method, you should always consult with a medical expert before beginning an exercise regime. A modified program may be recommended if you have any physical limitations. Everyone from serious fitness enthusiasts, to rehab patients, elite athletes, and prenatal clients will see a difference.
Should Pilates replace my regular workout?
Pilates exercise is a musculoskeletal conditioning program. It's ideal in combination with some kind of cardiovascular exercise (walking, running, aerobics, aqua fitness etc.), and a great complement to your weight training program or athletic training.
Is Pilates like yoga?
In some respects Pilates is like yoga. Both are considered mind-body methods of movement, both emphasize deep breathing and smooth, long movements that encourage the mind-body connection. The difference is that while yoga requires moving from one static posture to the next. Pilates flows through a series of movements that are more dynamic, systematic and anatomically-based incorporating resistance equipment. the goal with Pilates exercise is to strengthen the postural muscles while achieving optimal functional fitness.
Can Pilates help me lose weight? if so, how much?
Pilates can be a positive addition to your overall weight-loss program. Weight loss occurs when the number of calories consumed is less than the number of calories expended. the most successful and healthy way to achieve weight loss is an exercise plan that includes an aerobic component coupled with a strength training component, such as stott Pilates exercise, and following a balanced diet. Combining Pilates with aerobic exercise also offers additional benefits: greater mind-body connection, improved posture, flexibility and functionality.
Why do celebrities do Pilates?
Many celebrities choose Pilates because not only does it improve their physical appearance, it also helps with their stamina, stress relief, and focus. Pilates is invigorating and helps people feel distressed. for celebrities, on whom the outer world places a spotlight. Pilates allows them to "get away from it all" by internalizing and connecting the mind to the body. Celebrities known to do Pilates include: Cheryl Tiegs, Sandra Bullock, Ellen Degeneres, Rod Stewart, Sting, Martha Stewart, Rob Morrow, Victor Garber, Sofia Coppola, Veronica Tennant, Jennifer Aniston, Tiger Woods, and Andy Murray.
Is it true athletes do Pilates?
Despite its slow, careful movements, Pilates is not easy. For pro athletes like NHL player Eddie Belfour, NBA star Kobe Bryant, and tennis pro Martina Navratilova benefit from using Stott Pilates equipment and instruction. Pilates places importance on core stability and rebalancing the muscles making them work more efficiently. This helps prevent injury and improves athletic ability.
I'm new to Pilates. What is the best way to start?
We recommend that you take private sessions first. This will allow you to learn how the exercises should be performed, as well as any modifications that might be needed for your body. If you choose to do group classes later, you will receive greater benefits from the exercises. Please check our intro private specials.
How often should I do Pilates?
Two to three times a week is ideal, but even once a week is beneficial. The most important thing is long term consistency.
How soon can i expect to see results?
Joseph Pilates said: "in 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 sessions you'll see the difference, and in 30 sessions you'll have a whole new body". Exact results may vary by individuals, but we are sure that you will notice the difference as you commit to a consistent program.
Do you have private consultations?
Yes. You can call the studio to schedule a free consultation. The instructor will introduce you to the Pilates method, go over your injuries, concerns and your personal goals. After the session, he / she will recommend the next appropriate steps for you.
I am pregnant. Is Pilates good for me?
You're probably wondering, "How am I going to stay fit, have a comfortable pregnancy, and an easy labor and delivery?" Well, we are here to help you. Pilates is a safe and effective approach to exercise for pregnant women. Pilates is often called a mind body method of exercise, and for good reason. Pregnancy can be a time to tune inward and connect with the core principles of Pilates which are centering, concentration, control, precision, breath and flow. While these principles can enhance your workout, they also offer skills like focusing the mind and offer breathing techniques that can help you with a smoother delivery. Pilates strengthens the most important muscles you'll use during pregnancy and labor: your abdominals, pelvic muscles and your back. Pilates will help with muscular endurance, flexibility, and balance as your center of gravity starts to shift. building core strength, and toning your abdominals, pelvic muscles and your back will not only help you with your delivery but will help with:
- lower back pain
- maintain your fitness level
- self-esteem
- physical demands of being a mother
- strengthen pelvic floor muscles
The most common question we are asked by pre and post natal women is what is diastasis recti?
Diastasis Recti (also known as abdominal separation) is a disorder defined as a separation of the rectus abdominal muscle into right and left halves. essentially your abdominal muscles become separated. this happens sometimes during pregnancy. diastasis recti is caused by the growing uterus pushing against these muscles and separating them. Hormones during pregnancy can also cause the connective tissue that holds these muscles together to weaken aggravating the problem even more. The worst thing you can do is a normal ab workout. These types of exercises will only pull your abs further apart. Don't worry though, Pilates abdominal work can be modified and is safe to do throughout your entire pregnancy with your doctor's permission. We have instructors that are trained in pre and post natal Pilates. Call or come in to schedule a free consultation to find out how we can help you during your pregnancy.
I have a herniated disc in my lower back - Is it ok for me to participate in Pilates?
Pilates is a great form of exercise for anyone with back issues. Private sessions are strongly recommend so the teacher can create a safe and effective program best suited for your individual needs. Pilates will strengthen your muscles, increase your flexibility and improve your posture helping you to prevent back pain.
I have a bad back. Will I be able to do Pilates?
Although you should always consult your physician before starting any fitness routine, a Pilates workout is gentle and controlled with no sudden jarring actions. It is more important, however, that you work with a qualified instructor to ensure that you are doing the movements correctly. An experienced instructor will be able to modify the exercises to accommodate your limitations, continually challenge you within your ability, and monitor your improvements. If you commit yourself to a consistent workout schedule you will certainly feel results.
How do I choose the best teacher for me?
All of our teachers are Pilates certified and have been teaching different lengths of time. Each teacher has a distinct style and personality. Our job is to help you connect with a teacher who will inspire and help you with your goals.
If at anytime you decide to change teachers, this is no problem. we are here to give you the best workout experience possible!
How do I schedule a consultation, private session or class?
Call the studio to schedule a consultation or a private session. Classes can be booked and paid for online by logging into mindbody (app also available). Our price list, class description and teachers' bios are also on this site.
Why is there a 12 hour cancellation policy?
We have a 12 hour cancellation policy because we are a professional studio. Our teachers reserve the time and keep it available for each client. Cancellation 12 hours in advance allows our teachers sufficient time to book another client to fill that void. We know that unforeseen emergencies come up. Please call the studio as soon as you know you cannot attend a scheduled session- this applies both to group classes and private sessions.
what do I need to know about my first class?
2 hour parking in the surrounding residential area is free for 2 hours. Metered parking is available in front and additional public parking across 41st street. We have water and towels. Arrive few minutes early to check in with the receptionist, fill out forms, put your personal belongings in a cubby and introduce yourself to your teacher, who can answer any last minute questions you may have. Please let the teacher know if you have any injuries. We recommend you wear socks during your Pilates session. socks can be purchased at the front desk.
what other services do you offer?
We have assisted stretching ki-hara ,express power plate 30 min sessions
ki-hara resistance stretching is a comprehensive and innovative approach to flexibility training. Moving the body through multiple planes of movement as you resist allows for concentric and eccentric training (developing strength and flexibility). In self stretching you provide your own resistance, and during assisted stretching sessions we provide resistance to press against you as you move in patterns that go deep into hip and shoulder joints, maximizing flexibility for everyday movements. Ki-hara is a balanced and integrated approach to well-being and creates lasting change.
What does Sobe Pilates do for the Miami Beach Community?
Sobe Pilates believes in giving back to our community. We want Pilates to be accessible for everyone - twice a week we offer group reformer classes at a minimal fee for residents of Miami Beach. We also donate pilates classes to area schools, places of worship and non profit organizations.
I would like to become a certified Pilates teacher. Do you have a training program?
Yes. We are proud to announce that we are starting our own Pilates teacher certification called Sobe Pilates Plus
What kind of payment do you take?
We take cash and all credit cards. Gift certificates are also available.


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06: Exile
written by Daniel Manning
[[SFX: tape recorder starts; driving in a truck]]
BILL DONOVAN (BD): Chet, how are we doing on time?
CHET WHICKMAN (CW): About forty-five minutes out.
JACK WYATT (JW): So can you please tell us where in God's name we're actually going? What is this mystery site you're taking us to?
SALLY GRISSOM (SG): I still haven't ruled out "military prison." Or "execution site."
CW: To be perfectly honest with you Dr. Grissom, if we were going to make you all disappear, we wouldn't have driven you halfway to Canada to do it. The desert's plenty empty.
ESTHER ROBERTS (ER): Good to know how few qualms you have about killing us...
BD: Why would we have been taking you all to prison?
ER: Because... Because we got the town shut down. It was our fault all the money and resources, wasted. And now we're traitors.
SG: We're loose ends.
JW: Or both.
BD: Settle down, everybody. We're bringing you to the town of Point-of-Exile, Colorado.
ANTHONY PARTRIDGE (AP): Come on Bill, that sounds made up.
BD: Chet?
CW: Uh… Founded 1917, elevation 7742 feet. That's the 84th highest city in the continental US.
ER: It's like having an encyclopedia.
CW: I don't know what you want from me. They put it in the pamphlet.
BD: The four of you were all that will be left of the Office of Developed Anomalous Resources. You four, Chet, and myself.
SG: And the four jeeps full of time machine behind us.
CW: And Mrs. Partridge.
HP: Most days I'm just along for the ride...
BD: I want you four to know, I believe in the work you're doing. I can't tell you how much I believe in the work you're doing. But it's been decided that the United States needs a coordinated intelligence service. Not this piecemeal farce we've been doing up until now.
ER: What does that have to do with us?
SG: Hah. Hah-hah. Ahahaha. HAAAHahahaahaha. No.
ER: What?
SG: Donovan thinks the Timepiece is going to give him a leg up in the race to become the next great US intelligence agency. But he's wrong. The Timepiece only barely works, and by itself it's not nearly as useful as he thinks it is.
BD: You're right, it's not. That's why you're not working for Central Intelligence.
SG: Then what are we doing here?
BD: If I promise to keep it short, will you stop derailing me?
SG: I will try my hardest, but that is asking a lot of me.
BD: You're not working for an agency. You will be working for me, directly.
HP: So they're not even working for the government?
CW: That's what it'll say on the pay stub. But it won't exactly be true.
BD: Point-of-Exile has been designated as a Central Intelligence outpost, but your project will not officially be a part of it. Officially, you were in the wind. [cough] Your Strategic Services contracts have expired, ODAR was no more. [coughs]
JW: This doesn't exactly seem like it's above-board...
SG: You okay, buddy?
BD: I'll be fine. I've managed to secure you the same access to resources you had in Polvo. And you'll have the same run of the place, at least for the first year or so. However long it takes the government to cut through the red tape. The pieces will fit themselves around you, and no one has known you're not supposed to be there in the first place.
ER: Do you really think it's worth all this?
BD: You don't seem to understand. The work you all are doing, the machine you invented... It has been the single greatest human achievement since the light bulb. Since the printing press. Since gunpowder, and steel, and the wheel. Since man discovered fire. What you are making has limitless potential to change the world. I will see... I've seen that, clear as day. And I couldn't forgive myself for letting you all give it up because of a couple of minor setbacks.
JW: Minor setbacks?! A man died!
BD: I'm sorry, I misspoke. The setbacks were substantial. But where would the world be if Thomas Edison had given up every time he failed?
AP: Bill, that was a lovely speech, but what about me? What am I doing here?
BD: The Predictive Mechanics project is being integrated into Timepiece research. Anthony, you'll be part of Sally's team.
HP: But Anthony was your director of project development!
BD: And now, he isn't.
HP: And you just want to throw that all away?
AP: Thanks, Helen, really, but I don't need you sticking your nose in like this...
HP: Sticking my nose in?! How can you let him do this?
AP: We'll talk about this later.
SG: But Donovan, why are you doing this? What do you get out of keeping Timepiece around, and as a secret? We give you "the greatest achievement since the light bulb" to use as you please, so you can use time travel spycraft to make a mockery of due process? No, I won't have any part of this.
BD: Listen. I know what you must think of me. A big man with a briefcase full of secrets and hidden agendas. The truth is that when Polvo was shut down I lost more than any of you. Banished to a tiny mountain town, stripped of everything I had. [cough] I'm calling in the last few favors I had to convince them to keep me on, and to give me enough resources to keep your project running. Why? Because I will believe the work you're doing was... will change the world for the better. The end of the greatest war we've ever seen, and on the verge of something even bigger. I think the world needs us. And I think that if you didn't already believe me, you wouldn't have come along to begin with.
[[SFX: radio tuning]]
SG: Diary of Sally Grissom, February 23rd, 1946. So I've been here a couple weeks... what kind of name is Point-of-Exile, anyway? I'm reading between the lines here, but the town's welcome pamphlet implies that a bunch of miners got salty about some labor dispute, drunkenly decided to vacate whatever hole in the ground they were in, and when they sobered up they set up shop in the middle of the forest. It was their exile. Their place of ex--Point. Point of Exile. I was trying to say point of exile. Because, you know, it's the town's... you know what? Never mind. I don't know why I'm explaining this to my diary.
Maybe the air is getting to me. It's much thinner than the air in New Mexico, dense as it was with desert dust. Up here, it's clearer. I feel... I dunno. Refreshed. Of course, that could just be generalized hypoxia setting in. We'll see.
I think I'm the only one in our formerly-merry band of scientists who's actually enjoying the new digs. Partridge isn't appreciating what's essentially a demotion, and after what happened at Christmas Wyatt's heart just doesn't seem in it as much. I wouldn't know, my head's still a bit fuzzy about the whole time. I guess a brush with the Great Nothingness makes secret government super-science seem lacking. Roberts has been running triple-duty just to keep up with the gaps they leave. Poor girl. She desperately needs some time off, but I'm not sure we have any to spare.
[[SFX: radio tuning; Ester and Jack playing cards]]
ER: I don't think it works that way.
JW: Yeah, but you're suggesting we just roll over and do what the Director says.
ER: I'm saying we do what's best for the project.
JW: When does what's best for the project interfere with what's best for us?
ER: The four of us are the only people in the entire world who know enough to keep the Timepiece. We can't just abandon it right when it's getting a second chance.
JW: Or, we can just let it go down on life support. We can get real jobs, that pay money! Even if either of us failed in the private sector any halfway decent university would be so glad to have us.
ER: There isn't a place like this anywhere else. This is a unique opportunity. We're developing an entirely new discipline of physics. What kind of fat paycheck is worth that?
JW: Well, considering that we can't even talk about our new discipline of physics, any credit will probably go to Dr. Grissom, or worse, Bill Donovan.
ER: Is that what you care about? Credit?
JW: On our pay grade, you damn betcha.
ER: You're acting like a child.
JW: You weren't there. You didn't have your head smashed in by an over-worked, under-paid, hyper-stressed pipe-wielding lunatic.
ER: You're right. I wasn't there. But I'm here now. And I'm staying, and I'm going to keep doing my job. If you want to give up, that's your right. But that means it's all on me. And that means I don't have time for your pity party.
[[SFX: Esther throws her cards, stands up from the table]]
ER: We're done here.
[[SFX: Esther exits, bumping the record player on the way out; radio tuning]]
SG: Unlike them, I'm used to being an outsider by now. Actually it's a lot better this time around. The people of Point-of-Exile are warm, welcoming folk. It turns out that Sally Grissom is a halfway-decent casual-acquaintance-maker when she's not upending jobs because she rode into 1943 on a hoverboard. Everything is changing in America. People are optimistic about what's next. The postwar enthusiasm here is palpable. Everyone is like that sailor on V-Day, only... Less gross. To the people in P-of-E, I'm just the delightful new girl in town who does something vague with rocks and maps in that little Department of the Interior field office. Of course, I really work for the Department of Technically Not Even America designing impressively convoluted systems for intelligence gathering, but does anybody really know what their neighbors do while they're at work?
[[SFX: radio tuning]]
HP: You told me this was a transfer, a promotion! And now I find out that not only are you not working for the Army anymore, but now you're another one of Sally's worker bees? Are you being serious?
AP: Helen, you heard the Director. He risked his neck just to get us all out here. He wouldn't have done that if he didn't need my expertise on the project. They need me here.
HP: I need you here! We left Massachusetts for you. I put everything on hold for you. You told me about your secret project, that you had to go help end the war. And you did it! But now we've fought the last war and it's time for the soldiers to come home.
AP: I'm not fighting, Helen. I'm not fighting wars. I'm trying to end them. Before they can ever start.
HP: Do you really believe that you're going to end all war? Do you think you're smarter than all the great and terrible men through history who've claimed to do just that?
AP: I have more capacity to do it than any of those men ever did!
HP: Do you? Or are you just falling into the same trap they did? Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon. The emperor and the Kaiser and the Fuhrer. They all thought they were going to bring peace to the world. And they fought and they fought, and in the end millions died and people are still fighting. Do you really think you're so different, just because you have better tools? I saw that bomb, Anthony. And that's just the first. Now the world has seen it too, and do you think they're running away, tail between their legs? No. Now all that's changed is that everyone wants one of their own.
AP: Listen, Helen... I love you.
HP: I love you too.
AP: And I need to do this. And I need you here with me.
HP: I worry about you, Anthony. All the time. All this pressure you put on yourself... What are we even doing here, in the middle of nowhere, with you doing God knows what, and me sitting around all day wishing that for once, we can just be a normal couple who live in a normal town and have normal lives.
AP: This is a normal town! A little remote, but... Look, it's not like it was. You don't need to be looking over your shoulder wondering if you've said too much. Well--you still can't tell anybody what I do, but that has always been true. We can be real people here, Helen. We can have a life. Things in New Mexico weren't perfect, but we can take another shot at it here. I want to do this with you, Helen. You're the only woman I've ever loved.
HP: Our little secret...
AP: Our little secret.
HP: What's your cover story now?
AP: Department of the Interior. If anyone asks, tell them it's something to do with radar and weather detection.
HP: Do you really think we can make this work? Look into my eyes and tell me truly.
AP: I can't predict the future, but I think we can. I know we can. We're strong.
HP: Isn't your job supposed to be predicting the future?
AP: Alright, fair point. I can predict the future. And I predict that we're going to do pretty well.
HP: Our supper is getting cold.
AP: I suppose it is.
[[SFX: radio tuning]]
SG: I've almost spent three full years in the nineteen forties, and I've mostly bridged the culture gap. I can keep up with their keen jive, and even though my Borat impression doesn't really play with them, it never really played in 20█ either, so maybe that just wasn't meant to be. I've replaced the Internet with radio and--gasp--real books from a library. TV still has a few more years to get mainstream enough to be accessible. A slide rule and a pad of paper aren't quite MATLAB. What I really miss are the little conveniences. Email. GPS. Pizza at your door in thirty minutes or less. The things that won't revolutionize your life, but might make your day a little brighter. But it's not like those things don't exist in their component parts. Well, GPS satellites aren't in the sky yet, but... pizza exists. And until the satellites get up there, I think I can re-make a little bit of the 21st Century for myself.
The first step in that direction is that I'm re-teaching myself electronics. I ended up building this recording device that I realized was basically... well, it was just a circuit that I could strap onto a recorder that would essentially be a telephone answering machine. I mean, I'm not exactly sure when those were invented but they probably exist somewhere. I just built one out of things I have ready access to. I'm definitely a few years ahead of a commercial offering of this technology, but I could make one for myself, and probably make a few more to give them to friends or whatever. Something that's not going to redefine my work day, just now I can occasionally redirect missed phone calls. Of course, it's going to be pulling teeth trying to get people to figure out how to use it. I can't believe I'm going to have to teach technology to people born in the Twenties twice.
[[SFX: radio tuning; beep]]
SG: (on answering machine) You've reached Dr. Sally Grissom's voice-o-matic telephone message recording machine. I'm not home right now, but this device can record a short message that I'll be able to listen to later. In a few moments, I'll stop talking, and then there will be a click. After the click, leave your message.
[[SFX: recording runs to the end]]
SG: (speeding up) Then when you're done, hang up. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I know this is complicated, and I really appreciate your cooperation. Thanks, have a nice day!
[[SFX: beep; radio tuning]]
SG: I think my first pass at an outgoing message might have filled up an entire spool of wire. There's a lot to unpack in there. But people aren't idiots, they can figure it out. I can't have texting, but I won't have to worry that my phone is ringing, somewhere. You know. For all those people that call me... I'm sure it'll come in handy one of these days. I'll start working on texting next week.
It's just a distraction though. I've been avoiding the office a little bit. I received a report from Roberts and Wyatt on a new experiment for the Timepiece, testing the viability of positive-time motion... It was just Roberts who came up with the theory. The paper has both of their names on it, and she hasn't said a word to me about it yet, but I've seen them at their desks. There used to be a camaraderie between the three of us. You know, we joked, we smiled, we laughed while we worked. We sang, a couple of times. But now it's just... Silence.
The machine is supposed to work by pulling you backwards towards the Philadelphia Experiment but we're looking to see if you can use it to move forwards. If it goes well, we could... I could... I could figure out how to go home. It's a snowball's chance in hell, but come on... I wouldn't be dead! Dead to the present, at least, or however that would work with paradoxes and San Dimas Time or whatever.
Is it worth going back? I wouldn't be returning to the 20█ I left in the first place, I know that much. There's no way each molecule would align the same way and create the same world I left behind. Not now. I wouldn't have the same relations with the same people even in the best circumstance. Why would I expect those exact same bodies to even exist, the same pattern of genetics and circumstance to correspond to the people I knew? Not that I had a ton of friends back home... It's a little disheartening. But I'm afraid that Partridge and Whickman and them would judge me if I didn't make every effort to get back home. That's what I'm supposed to do, right? Go back to the... [sigh] back to the future? Goddammit.
[[SFX: radio tuning; sounds of a diner]]
JW: Good, because I'm practically famished.
PENNY WISE (PW): I'll be sure to have 'em throw extra turkey on that club. Between you and me, I think they're a little stingy.
JW: I appreciate that.
PW: Don't you worry hun. I'm Penny, give me a holler if you need anything at all.
JW: I'll be sure to-- I'll take you right up on that.
PW: I hope you do.
ER: Er, Penny? Could I get another cup of coffee?
PW: Sure thing sweetie, I'll be right back.
JW: Nice to meet you...
[[SFX: Penny walks off]]
SG: Wow, kid, the sparks are flying.
JW: What are you talking about?
SG: That whole thing there! Come on, don't tell me you didn't see it. (dramatic voice) I'm practically famished!
ER: I'm not seeing it.
SG: He was practically falling all over her!
JW: I told the girl I wanted a sandwich.
SG: Sure, with your mouth. But I saw it in your eyes. You fell for her, hard.
JW: Sally, the girl is irrelevant, I'm on my lunch break, and she's at work. Not exactly the best time for a meet cute.
SG: No, it's the perfect time! You come back later tonight, ask her when she gets off shift...
JW: And does she have any say in the matter?
SG: Of course, she's totally into you! Very progressive of you though, Wyatt. Way to buck stereotypes.
JW: ...Thank you?
[[SFX: Penny comes back with coffee]]
PW: Here's your coffee. So where'd y'all move in from?
ER: New Mexico. Our company just moved us up to the mountains.
PW: Are y'all the ones who moved into the old lumber warehouse on the edge of town?
SG: That's us.
PW: Well, welcome to Point-of-Exile.
SG: Thank you Penny-- uh... What's your last name?
PW: Wise.
SG: Well Wise, this guy here was just raving about the excellent service we've had from you today.
JW: Sally, what are you doing—
SG: In fact, he was just telling us that because of you, we're gonna make this our new lunch spot in town.
PW: Well, gosh...
JW: No, I didn't, I was just--
PW: You were just what?
ER: He was just what?
JW: Nothing. I just... Appreciate... Good service. That's all.
PW: Well, I... Thanks. I do what I can. I'll be right out with your sandwich.
[[SFX: Penny exits]]
SG: See?
ER: Oh yeah, I definitely see it now.
JW: It's not anything! You're just putting words in my mouth! Matchmaking is more complicated than just telling two people they like each other!
SG: So you do like her...
ER: Haven't you ever seen Holiday? Or The Shop Around the Corner? In that one they couldn't stand each other!
SG: Oh! You've Got Mail!
ER: Exactly. You get mail, and it turns out to be from the very person you despise. All it takes is one word.
PW: And what word is that?
ER: Uh, nothing.
PW: I've got a Reuben for you--
ER: Thank you.
PW: Biscuits and gravy here--
SG: Excellent, thanks much.
PW: And a turkey club, piled high.
JW: Oh, wow, I'm not sure I could ever finish this in one sitting.
PW: Well if you ever need an extra hand to finish that, I sure wouldn't mind. Holler if you need anything else, okay, sweetie?
JW: Actually, I do have something.
PW: What is it?
JW: Would, um... Would you...
PW: Yeah?
JW: Is your name really Penny Wise?
PW: [exasperated sigh] Yeah. My parents thought it'd be a real riot.
JW: At least it's easy to remember. You're unforgettable… Um, hi, Jack Wyatt.
PW: Well Jack Wyatt... Find me tonight, and I'll tell you all about it over some pie. We close up around 9. Until then, Ace, I've got tables to see.
[[SFX: Penny exits]]
JW: Okay, now I see it.
[[SFX: radio tuning; Sally and Anthony working on machine]]
SG: And Wyatt goes [buffoonish voice] "I don't know what you're talking about! I don't even like girls" and I tell him to shut his mouth and talk to her. Or, open his mouth I guess--the point is that he was wrong.
[[SFX: Timepiece on; static distortion]]
SG: Ok, check it now.
AP: One-twenty.
SG: Damn.
[[SFX: Timepiece off]]
SG: So I tell him to go pester the girl after work, and I don't even need to, she comes back with food with full flirt on. The girl--and her name is Penny Wise, get it? Pennywise? Swear to God, real name--
AP: Sally, what are we doing here?
SG: What do you mean? You mean right here, right now? Or existentially?
AP: Across the gamut. I think I need to recalibrate my various internal compasses.
SG: Well, our natural body processes are pumping oxygen-rich blood to our tissues while electrochemical signals in our brains are simulating the complex but handy illusion of consciousness and controlling the body: hands, arms, feet, legs. Your vocal cords are vibrating to push air through your mouth, shaped by your teeth and tongue, to be interpreted by my brain as language.
AP: ...More generally.
SG: We are using tools to do our jobs.
AP: Sally! Stop being a smart alec.
SG: We are checking for faults in the main circuits of the Applied Higgs Inhibitor Array, codenamed TIMEPIECE, in preparation for a round of tests.
[[SFX: Timepiece on; static distortion]]
SG: How bout now?
AP: One twenty-three.
SG: Damn.
[[SFX: Timepiece off]]
AP: And why are we doing this?
SG: Because we work for a super top-secret division of the intelligence community of the United States of America and want to make sure that it is up to snuff.
AP: And why we doing that for them?
SG: Because they are incredibly powerful, because they pay us, because Donovan gave a stirring speech, and because it's the only chance to work on science literally decades ahead of its time. Take your pick.
AP: And why do they want that?
SG: Are they a person, object, or mineral? What's with the Twenty Questions?
AP: I'm curious. Why do they--why does Donovan--want the Timepiece?
SG: Are you going to get to the point?
AP: How did we get here?
SG: Oh, come on, you're not–
AP: No, I mean from Polvo to Point-of-Exile.
SG: We drove in a van.
AP: No! I mean... before you got here, I was managing half a dozen cutting edge research projects. After that, you became a daily thorn in my side--
SG: And I'd hope, a trusted friend and colleague.
AP: That too. And then things started snowballing. The Timepiece ramped up, there was a trip to Las Vegas, and then Quentin's accident, and apparently you did some pretty amazing work the night of the Christmas party. I missed out on most of that, but Jack told me it was like you were in three places at once.
SG: Ha, well, that night was pretty fuzzy for me too.
[[SFX: Timepiece on; static distortion]]
SG: Try it now.
AP: My point is, I can't help but do the calculus and say that Timepiece hasn't brought anyone anything but trouble.
SG: That could be true.
AP: So why does Donovan keep putting his faith in this project? In us?
SG: I don't really know. I know what could happen, what amazing things we could do, if we ever worked out a system for using this thing effectively... But you're right. We've failed plenty. More often than not, actually.
AP: So I ask again: What are we doing here?
SG: ...I want to see this machine work. I want to see it help somebody.
AP: Wasn't that the problem? You can't see it working? It either worked, or it didn't, and no one could tell, or something like that?
SG: If you could see what changed... If you could... Ugh. I don't know. Who knows what happens when you change something small. What does the meter say?
AP: One twenty-seven.
SG: Perfect! Okay. Let's get this puppy fired up.
AP: Well, two years ago I was basically your boss and today you're definitely my boss.
SG: Listen, Partridge. I'm not your boss. Of all the people here who could be your boss, I'm the most not your boss. Partridge, Timepiece needs you. This team needs you. I need you. But not as a subordinate. I need someone who looks ahead as I look behind. The miracle of the Timepiece isn't just moving backwards, it's the possibility of using it to change how we move forward. And you're the only one who can help us with it. Without you, the Timepiece is stuck. Ready?
AP: Ready.
[[SFX: flipping switches, Timepiece spooling up]]
AP: Sally... If the Timepiece is successful in doing what it's doing, do you think you would go back to the future?
SG: I don't know. But I'd rather have the option.
[[SFX: the Timepiece activates; radio tuning]]
SG: Diary of Sally Grissom, March 1st, 1946. Without boring you with the details, the hypothesis didn't hold up during the Timepiece test. We now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that going forwards in time using the principles of the Timepiece is effectively impossible. I mean, going forwards in time has always been possible, just... at the rate of one second per second. I know the last time I did one of these I hemmed and hawed about not wanting to go back to 20█ but now that I know I can't, well... it hurts. I mean, it was a long shot to begin with, but now that we have the numbers to back it up I can't help but feel like a petulant child who wants what she can't have. The grass is always greener, you know?
The results aren't all bad. We got a better look at the tachyonic photon response that comes from using the Timepiece. Improperly modulated, it would cause something like the electromagnetic pulse I saw back in my first months with ODAR. But, with a little tweaking, it seems like you could dictate the frequency of the pulse, like a sort of "signature" assigned to a specific activation of the Timepiece. Of course, it only really exists at the point of origin and then travels backwards in time towards the Eldridge, so my apologies go out to the crew of the Eldridge in October 1943 who spent their trip being bombarded with an ever-growing number of tachyons. If you had something there to receive them, though, you could probably keep track of all the jumps made with the Timepiece. You'd have to move the anchor point to a different listening station, or set up something to receive pings from the future when Rainbow was turned on, you might even be able to set up a system to track them. It wouldn't not come in handy, you know? What would you if you could map the shifting sands of time?
[[SFX: radio tuning; static distortion]]
BD: It will go without saying that you couldn't spread that information from this span... room. You can't spread this from this room.
AP: But people need to know! You're sure it's because of... what you did... with the Timepiece?
CW: If it wasn't there before, the Timepiece accelerated it. His tenses are a mess.
BD: [coughs] You're to be thanked, Chet. I will be able to... I can talk on my own. Just give me a minute.
AP: Why didn't you bring Sally in on this?
BD: Sally was volatile. We're keeping this close to the vest.
CW: Please, you have to help him. You understand that all of it was for the good of ODAR, for the good of all of us. And now he's dying.
AP: What do you want me to do?
BD: I needed you to get the right answer. Help what's wrong with my thinking.
CW: You're the only one we've got.
AP: Director… Bill. I will do everything I can to save you. I will get you through this, but you have to come clean to the team. At least tell Sally. She deserves to know about what you did.
BD: We've talked about this. But only where you find the right answer. Next to then don't speak to anybody. Not acceptable.
[[SFX: Bill coughs; static distortion intensifies
CW: Anthony... Help him. Please.
[[SFX: tape recorder stop]]
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Ed Sadlowski
A tribute to Ed Sadlowski by his son, Ed Jr.
I am a fourth generation trade unionist. My Dad is a great labor leader, educator, a mentor, a true "Pal," the best kind of friend -- an instant champion of your cause. Knowledge is power. Ed Sadlowski lhas spent his lifetime fulfilling his calling that everyone "know the score," "who is screwing who." My father never gives anyone a "bum steer" when advice is sought, or more commonly, when his counsel is "passionately" proffered.
His people were forged and tapped from hard living in and around the coal mines of Southern Illinois, and from tehe intense heat of the steel making furnaces which lined Lake Michigan's Southern shoreline. His father worked the ore bridges at Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana. "Load" was a militant, a true believer. The Congress of Industrial organizations was his thing. He was a Steel Worker Organizxing Committee activist, a founding member of USW Local 1010. With a culture of direct action by workers on the shop floor, the local union cultivated loyalty of the membership and the active participation of the rank and file in the day to day functions of the union. Democratic trade unionism has become the hallmark of our family heritage. Load was a trade unionist's trade unionist. My Dadalways made it his business to ensure the elder generations spent time with the younger crowd. Life's hard lessons have been handed down.
In 1956, our Dad landed a job as an oiler in the machine shope at United States Steel South Works. His identity was quickly shaped by his work environment. Like many in the mills, like his father before him, he picked up a handle along the way -- "Oilcan Eddie." Our parents were high school sweethearts from the proverbial different side of two millgate community tracks. A river also runs through it. He, a South Chicago working class kid. She hailed from the neighborhood farthest east in the city. Somehow it is a perceived "step up" across the Calumet River, known as the "East Side." Ed and Marlene Sadlowski were married on January 31, 1959.
In 1964, at the age of 24, by Dad led a diverse coalition of rank and file workers to victory, upsetting an entrenched incumbent to become President of USW Local 65. With her calm wisdom, deep compassion, and profound love for others, Marlene was not the woman behind the man, but she remained standing by his side. In the early days, our Mom was active in the Women's Auxiliary, which meant social gatherings, political rallies, parades, and countless meetings at the Local 65 Hilding Anderson Union Hall. They began taking on responsibility for the good and welfare of 14,000 steelworkers, and at the same time my sisters Susan, Patty, Diane and I were part of the scene.
In 1975, Ed Sadlowski beat the hand-picked successor of the "official family" by a 2 to 1 margin to become Director of USW Distreict 31. This was steelworker insurgency -- Steel Workers Fight Back. At the time, it was the largest district in the USW. The victory followed an earlier election for the directorship was was wrought with charges of fraud against the "official family" of the union. The Department of Labor re-run is considered the most supervised election in U.S. labor history.
In 1976 Steel Workers Fight Back slated our father to head a ticket challenging the International Presidency of the union. During the campaign leading up to the 1977 election, our family hit the road, attending union functions around the country. Ben Corum was shot in the neck handing out Steel Workers Fight Back literature at the Hughes Tool Plant in Housing, Texas. Fight Back was organizing delegates to the International Convention to gain tlhe right of union members to vote on their own contracts, regain the right to strike and have a say about their union dues. These hard won democratic rights are taken for granted by many in the labor movement today. It was a hotly contested election for the Presidency of the union. Without question, the Steel Workers Fight Back insurgent movement has changed the culture of the USW for the better.
"I guess maybe I am a romantic, but I look at the American labor movement as a holyi crusade, which should be the dominant force in this coutnry to fight for working people and the underdog and make this a more just society." -- Ed Sadlowski
Alice Peurala: Woman of Steel
Written by Bob Simpson
The fires of steelmaking burned all along the southern shores of Lake Michigan when Alice Peurala entered U.S. Steel's South Works in 1953. Today most of those fires have gone out and with them the thousands of jobs that were once the economic support system for the Southeast Chicago-Gary region, a region that has still not recovered.
Steelworker Alice Peurala was the daughter of Armenian immigrants. Born in 1928 in St. Louis, she grew up in a family that was pro-union and politically involved in trying to recover Armenian lands from Turkey, as had been promised by President Wilson after World War I. Like the children of most immigrant families, Peurala was well acquainted with hard work, taking her first job at 14. Later she moved to Chicago where she took a number of jobs and worked as a union organizer. A socialist, she had to contend with the redbaiting of the McCarthy period and there were periods of unemployment when she was fired for union organizing.
Whlen Peurala entered Chicago's South Works steel mill in 1953, there were few women employed there. Most of the women who had steel jobs during WWII had dreturned home when the men came back from the war. The women who remained faced gender discrimination in hiring and promotion. Still, Peurala found that most of the male steelworkers were pretty decent guys who taught her the tricks of the steelmaking trade.
Active in the civil rights movement, Alice knew that the 1964 Civil Rights Actd covered gender as well as race., So ion 1967, when she was denied a promotion from her job in the Metallurgical Division to a better position in a product testing lab, she decided to fight. The promotion would mean that Peurala, a single mom, coulod be with her daughter in the evenings. She was told that since the job required overtime and heavy lifting, she was ineligible as a woman. The union would not take her case so she went to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC determined that the company had lied about the heavy lifting, the onerous overtime, and the education requirements. They recommended that she sue.
She found a lawyer, the young Patrick Murphy, who knew little about civil rights law, but dedicated himself to the case. After much foot-dragging, and many objections from US Steel attorneys, the judge issued a compromise solution. Peurala would be next in line for a product tester's job. Then when US Steel tried to cirdcumvent the settlement, the judge was so furious that Peurala finally got her promotion in 1969. It was a victory for all women in manufacturing and avictory for democracy in the workplace. Cases like those of Alice Peurala helped make the 1974 Consent Decree to end discrimination in the steel industry a reality. The Decree was signed by nine major steel companies, the steelworkers union and the EEOC.
Soon afterward, Peurala joined Steelworkers Fight Back, a rank and file steelworker insurgency group which developed a large following in Districtd 31 of the USW. Led by a third generation steelworker named Ed Sadlowski, Steelworkers Fightback introduced a democratic militancy into the steel industry that had not been seen since the early days of the CIO. Alice Peurala was one of the tough, smart working class leaders emerging in the 1960s who were determined to challenge the iron-fisted dictatorial control of company owners. They also challenged the leadership of their unions and fought for democratic reforms.
Despite the 1974 Consent Decree, women were being forced to take sick leave for pregnancy and made ineligible for unemployment oir medical insurance. There were reports of women feeling compelled to have abortions to survive economically. Women steelworkers suspected that the companies were using pregnancy to rid themselves of women they never wanted to hire in the first place. There were also problems with promotions. After she was elected as a grievance handler, Peurala came to believe that the company was hiring inexperienced women to do jobs they couldn't handle as a way to dismiss these new hires, instead of promoting experienced women from inside the plant. The new hires were being set up to fail. Alice's response: "We can't allow men to decide what women's rights are. They aren't the ones who will get hurt, we are. If those bastards try that trick again, tell them where to shove it. The men never put up with this shit."
Peurala helped organize the Local 65 Women's Caucus. Steelworker women activists plunged into a wide variety of campaigns from fighting for stronger affirmative action enforcement to improving the decrepit state of the women's washrooms. They formed alliances with feminist groups across the region, refuting the rightwing smear that feminism was only a movement for privileged white women. They became active in the newly formed Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). District 31 made a major push for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), sending hundreds of steelworkers, both men and women, to state legislatures to lobby for equal rights. While some local media tried to make a joke out of "burly male steelworkers" campaigning for women's rights, steelworker women and men didn't think that was funny at all. They understood the iimportance of working class solidarity against social injustice.
Once dubbed "Alice in Wonderland" by men who thought a woman could never lead a largely male steelworker local, Alice Peurala won the presidency of Local 65 in 1979 because of her solid record of achievement. "I did not win a a woman. I campaigned as a candidate who would so something about conditions in the plant that affect 7500 people -- men and women. ... People in the plant looked on me as a fighter. I think it demonstrates that the men in the plant will vote for someone who is going to work for them, make the union work for them." -- Alice Peurala
But Peurala's victory came when the American steel industry was about to collapse in an atmosphere of fear caused by mass layoffs. She was narrowly defeated for re-election in 1982, but was re-elected in 1985. But by 198 5, the local was down to 800 members and Alice Peurala faced a new enemy -- cancer. On June 21, 1986, her steelworker's heart went silent and the working class lost one of its finest and most steadfast leaders.
Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker Leader, Fighter for a Better World
Written by Beatrice Lumpkin
Born the third of ten children on October 13, 1916, Frank Lumpkin is known for winning a 17-year fight against a steel mill, but he also participated in numerous other struggles for social justice. His family, sharecroppers in Washington, GA, moved to Florida to pick oranges when Frank was six years old. At age 13, he lost two fingers when others dared him to touch a power line. Two years later, Lumpkin left school to pick fruit full-time.
As a young man, Lumpkin boxed well enough to fight professionally. He also worked in the orange groves and as a chauffeur. Following a brother who found better pay as a steelworker, Frank moved to Buffalo, NY, and gotr a job at Bethlehem Steel in 1941. Joining the merchant marine in 1943, he took part in a strike organized by the integrated National Maritime Union and his belief in communism took hold. In 1949, Frank Lumpkin moved to Chicago and married Beatrice.
The Wisconsin Steel Mill hired Lumpkin in 1950, and he quickly led an unsuccessful movement to bring a national union to his workplace. Lumpkin continued at the plant until 1980, when it closed down in a currupt scheme to cheat its workers out of their last paychecks, pensions and benefits. The in-house union refused to fight, and Lumpkin organized the Save Our Jobs Committee. Under his leadership, the group picketed offices in Illinois and Washington, DC. Fighting hard and long, Save Our Jobs finally succeeded in wining multiple court settlements that totaled $19 million. Although this represented a small monetary victory for the 2,500 workers the committee rdepresented, Lumpkin succeeded in showing that, united, people are strong.
Lumpkin has fought throughout his life for such causes as racial justice, living wages and peace. Mayor Harold Washington appointed him to task forces on hunger and dislocated workers. Frank and Beatrice Lumpkin have traveled internationallly, visiting Eastern Europe and Russia behind the Iron Curtain as well as Africa and Latin America. Frank was a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA and active in many other economic and social justice organizations.
"Racism is a business. When they were organizing the packinghouses, they brought in these Black guys from the South to break the strikes. What happens? Some of these Black guys become the main organizers of the union. The backbone -- it's Black and white." -- Frank Lumpkin


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I am very happy with my 34A cup size, but it does make shopping harder. I am also petite overall 5'4'' and 115 lbs. I get lost in a lot of blouses and dresses designed for more average women and would love some tips from the community that go beyond the obvious of "wear form fitting tops." What are some good overall combinations? What are some good designers and or stores for my body type?
I notice a lot of girls on this site with my body type end up emphasizing the legs a lot, but I am not THAT leggy.
I want to emphasize that I won't wear a padded or push up bra — it just isn't me.
Sorry for the long question and thanks for the advice!posted over 9 years ago
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You're lucky, in my opinion. I would go for a lot of v-neck stuff! especially sundresses, so you don't have to worry about a bra. Also, you may not SEEM THAT LEGGY but let me tell you, in a short little floaty dress and high heels, they WILL look very long lol my legs are stubby little things, but when I work with the proportions they look hot :Dposted over 9 years ago
I'm a petite, small-chested chictopian, so you're not alone. There are a lot of fun thing you can do to draw attention to or balance out your small chest You can wear horizontal stripes on top! You can wear deep or wide v-necks! You can wear a brighter color on top! You can wear an empire-waist dress or tunic (and belt certain dresses under your chest to make it look like an empire waist). I've got plenty of photos for all of these suggestions right here on my Chictopia blog.posted over 9 years ago
I have the same bra size and I'm 170 cm tall. I don't mind that I'm small breasted, I hate push up bras, and I love that I can sometimes wear no bra at all. I don't see any problems with clothes, I wear what I wanna wear, oversized stuff and tank tops also.
And the ting I like is strepless tops and dresses that you can totally wear and not be vulgar :)
little bra company makes amazing bras for petite busted women :) they carry 26A-36B
also, victoria's secret has some amazing padded bikinisposted about 9 years ago
I'm a 32B, but I'm of average height (5'4" or 160 cm) with fairly broad shoulders. 115-120 lbs. My legs aren't super thin or long, and my ankles look a little chunky. Just how I'm built. Personally, I don't run into a lot of problems with my breast size—it seems ideal for clothes, actually.
If you're in the market for office-friendly clothing like blouses, I recommend against cotton button ups. They're not very flattering on small busts, in my opinion.
What look super hot are silk blouses. All my dressy tops are made from flowy, drapey fabrics like satin and chiffon. They're also all from the thrift store. I find that one of the easiest things to thrift is dressy and office-friendly blouses.
Check out smaller, more boutique-y thrift shops for nice blouses. Where I live, the American Cancer Society Discovery Shops, children's hospital benefit shops, an Episcopal Church-run shop, and Goodwills in gentrified downtown areas have high-quality stuff.
I don't think dress pants look good on shorter, small-busted women. It works on tall, thin women, but not on people of our build. Opt instead for a-line or pencil skirts that end just above the knee or higher. Never wear a hem that ends below your knee. It inevitably makes you look stubby.
High waists are also a must. If you wear your skirts and pants higher on your waist, it makes your legs look longer. And, if you are wearing a drapey, loose top, it makes a lovely little poufy shape that helps with the boob issue.
Surplice tops and dresses look best on women who are at least a full B-cup, in my opinion. You need a little cleavage to make it work.
I love scoopneck and v-neck shirts. Not a fan of most crewnecks, except on vintage tees, which also look awesome with small boobs. Poly-cotton blends or vintage cotton tees are thin, so they drape. Sweetheart necklines do not look very good on small boobs. Cowl necks on fine-gauge knits and jersey pieces are really nice on small boobs, too.
Avoid thick-knit, chunky sweaters. They just obscure what you got goin' on and make your torso look shapeless.
In the winter, try pea coats, which follow the contour of your torso better than single-row coats.
Layering can also help you play up your assets. If you wear a dress, throw on a cropped vest or jacket to bring attention to your bust. On chilly days, wear delicate cardigans buttoned up to just below your breasts over tanks and camis.
Empire waist dresses can look awesome, but avoid straight-up babydoll silhouettes. They make your figure totally disappear. I almost always belt my dresses for casual wear (unless they are empire-waisted or just unsuitable for belting). This makes your waist look small, if done right, which makes your boobs look bigger by comparison. It also helps create an hourglass figure.
I guess the upshot of this is "drape, drape, drape!" and "thin fabrics."
Really great decades of fashion for this body type are the 20s, the 60s, and the 80s. (In my mind, the 70s are about statuesque, busty women—think Donna on That 70s Show. The 50s and the New Look silhouette demand some boobage to balance the full skirts. I'm still processing the 90s and the 00s.)
I hope this helps!posted about 9 years ago
I wear a 32AA and I don't wear padded bra's either. I agree with you that sometimes it can be hard to find clothing. Some shirts are just more flattering on a larger chest, but, some clothing is more flattering on a small chest =)
I've always read that if you have a small chest, wear tops with details on the chest: ruffles, beading, ruching, etc.. Empire tops/dresses.
I wear clothing that they say doesn't work well with a small chest, like dolman sweaters because it doesn't "accent my shape". But I like it and thats all that matters to me. Wear what makes you happy =) I don't mind having a small chest and it seems like you don't either. That confidence will make you look so much more beautiful than a top can ever do =)
I'm also the same size and I celebrate it – so much more comfortable working out at the gym than if I had something in the way lol. Here's some tips I picked up along the way:
-Rouching around the bust area enhances it
-go for boatneck necklines which will also emphasize your chest
-colour blocking done right can also help – lighter colours on your chest and dark in other areas tricks the eyes
-stripes can also emphasize it
-v-necks and low cut shirts/dresses are our friends!
Here's some places to shop online for petites:
Ann Taylor
Miss Selfridge
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i like the flat chested look! very high-fashion…
alot of designer clothes is designed for that stuff!
I am a fan of the flat chested look. I don't wear padded bras ever, prefer the soft cup ones for the almost invisible look. As "Jolenevuong" said it is a very high fashion look. I'm 5'8.5" and a 32AA (sometimes A!!) – I constantly look at model off duty pictures to get inspiration. I don't look that modely or anything but that style that they wear is very flattering to flatter girls. I consider myself lucky not to have a bust – I am confident just throwing on a loose tank or whatever and knowing that it will drape nicely. Sure there have been many times when dresses looked awful because I didn't fill them out but for every bad one there are also many more beautiful options.
Embrace what you have – don't fake it. Most people are naturally in proportion, we mess that up ourselves by changing what we've got – push up bras, loosing weight, gaining weight etc.
The Wardrobe Wars : take a look, we'd love your feedback – follow if you like what you see!posted about 9 years ago
well, definitely stay away from marciano, like the brand guess. that stuff's made for larger chested women.
i have a 32AA, i like wearing more loose fitting tops myself. i think it makes it less obvious that you're flat chested. i wear alot of fluttery, flowy chiffon-like fabrics. i also wear a lot of v neck shirts and sweetheart necklines.
and maybe it's just me but low cut tops look way better on flat chested girls than high cut ones (high cut meaning ones that are on typical scoopneck shirts).
Stay away from plunging neckline. As it will draw more attention to your breasts. Key is distraction or diversion. Draw attention to your strong points. For bras, having padded or gel bras helps alot. But most of the times, a wrong bra fit (even in pushups) will make the cups gape. Bottom line is find the correct bra size, if nothing fits, bra inserts are available to lessen gaping in your bras.posted about 9 years ago
aaaah! i love this thread. I'm 5'3 with a 32A chest. I always use push ups, but I love lower cut shirts (usually a very much V-neck or scoop). I do show off my legs alot just so I don't get attention up top. I don't have anything to necessarily add, I just wanted to express my happiness of this thread haha.posted about 9 years ago


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Drive for 1 Million
The High Holiday Operation Isaiah food drive could pass 1 million pounds of food collected next year after celebrating its 25th anniversary by bringing in 88,139 pounds of food at synagogues
from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur this year.
The food goes to the Atlanta Community Food Bank and should provide 73,449 meals to people in need.
The food drive, launched by Ahavath Achim Synagogue in 1990 to follow the prophet Isaiah's prescription to "share your bread with the hungry," has collected 908,474 pounds of food in total over the years.
"We as the Jewish community recognized that we choose to observe the command to fast, whereas there are people who are fasting every day without that choice because they do not have food to eat," said Nancy Canter Weiner, the 2015 Operation Isaiah chairwoman. "The idea of Operation Isaiah was born to help others put food on their table when we do not have food on ours."
This year's amount included 60,139 pounds collected at AA alone.


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NCR is the center of the debate about cooperative enterprises in the Netherlands. It's also the place where inspiration takes place and where cooperatives meet and learn from each other. Strong supporter of the cooperative model, NCR believes in its benefits and operates on behalf of its members through professional development activities and awareness, particularly among stakeholders. Thus, it strengthens the cooperative identity and provides the necessary preparation to seize opportunities and overcome the challenges ahead. NCR is a member of Cogeca, the General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Union, and of Cooperatives Europe; the European region of ICA. NCR is one of the founders of Agriterra which provides expert advice to farmer organisations and cooperatives in developing economies.
Dutch Cooperative Top 100
In December 2017 NCR presented the Top 100 Dutch cooperatives and mutuals ranked by turnover in 2016. The list includes the name of the cooperative or mutual, the economic sector, the number of FTE and the number of members. The 100 cooperatives together had a turnover of € 107 billion, employed 140,000 persons and are owned by 30 million members (includes double counts). Main sectors are agriculture and insurance. Useful insights on Dutch agricultural cooperatives can be found in the country report for The Netherlands in this study for the European Commission: Support for Farmers' Cooperatives.
NCR Governance Code for Cooperatives
The NCR Governance Code for Cooperatives was drawn up in 2005 and was revised for the first time in 2011. Developments surrounding corporate governance made it necessary for NCR to draw up a new (third) version in 2015. The NCR Governance Code for Cooperatives is not binding. This code will be applied voluntarily by Dutch cooperatives. Basis of this code is Dutch company law. However, we believe that most of the principles and best practice provision in this code are based on basic cooperative assumptions that apply worldwide and that it can be helpful as guidelines towards the governance of cooperatives worldwide. The next revision is expected in 2019.


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Apologies for the radio silence...the job hunt has been all-consuming but I'll be back soon!
Especially because I did this this past weekend...
Thanks to Tom at Superb for packing my track baby with so much care!
Apologies for the radio silence...the job hunt has been all-consuming but I'll be back soon!
Especially because I did this this past weekend...
Thanks to Tom at Superb for packing my track baby with so much care!
At family gatherings, I usually sat at the "kids' table." This usually consisted of me and my sister, plus the few cousins that could still relate to us. Given that my mom - the youngest in her family - pushed me out when she was 37, this meant that aforementioned cousins were at least 11 years older than I was. The kids' table [or "the young people's table" as it was later called] was fun for my sister and I, but looking back, I'm impressed that my cousins were able to even carry on a conversation with us. With the exception of cyclists, I find it difficult to talk to anyone who is over 3 years younger than I am. Toddlers and babies just make me awkward. I'll point and pull sleeves of friends and say how cute they are, but when people give them to me to hold, I tense up. I'm deathly afraid of dropping the child or not holding him/her right or doing something wrong which will enrage the parent and result in them slapping me.
Which is why when Mike told me I could sit at the "kids' table" at his family's annual Lobsterfest, I muttered something like "um, nevermind" and found something busy to do. I imagined the scenario that unfolds before me when my mother has threatened the same thing: me sitting at a separate small table with my cousin's 6 year old tyrant of a son, getting abused by a toy train or verbal abuse that's meant to be funny but is just annoying, until I snap and then he cries to his mother who probably wouldn't really care but everyone else will remember it forever and judge me by it, including my own mother. But hey, Mike's American. That means he has loving, accepting, nonjudgmental parents [this is true]. The kind that dispenses hugs and stuff. And the hugs are of the cute, warm variety, not the stiff, awkward ones I'm forced into when my sister tries it.
So I agreed to go. Even with the threat of being dumped at a separate table with small children whom I wouldn't know how to talk to [what are they even into these days?]. But again, these are American children, which means they are adorable. And have blue eyes. I even got to hold one. And no, I wasn't there as the Asian nanny.
I didn't even drop the baby! A few minutes after I relinquished him to his mother, as more family members and their respective children filtered in, Mike offered to walk his mother's new Specialized Ruby Elite [with 105] out to the garage. She said I could try it out, and I got to ride my first ever women's specific CF bike.
It's a 48cm, but easily fits my towering height of 5'2.5 [Mike's mother is about 5'1]. Despite what everyone says about CF, this bike felt solid, like there was something there. It accelerates well [even in my Vans on clipless pedals], and although I only took it out on a quick spin, I bet it's an awesome bike to take out on longer rides. Pedaling up the driveway, Mike appeared beside me on his father's new Specialized Roubaix, another CF bike. With a fairly minimal paint job, the raw carbon of the Roubaix makes the bike look like the equivalent of a muscle car: fast and strong. The two bikes together make for an impressive pair and Specialized moved up on my list of wish bikes. I'd totally get one if Velo carried them [ahem!].
But then I rode this, and my life changed.
JUST KIDDING. And yes, that's a Harley.
Then, as we were finishing up playing outside, food started coming out. Cheese, crackers, and fruit in the kitchen, steamers on the stove top and after we swung by the fish market in Mike's father's truck [I got to ride in a truck! Oh man, I love trucks!], lobsters. A big boxful of lobsters. We attacked them after we stuffed our faces full of steamers and after I ripped that crustacean apart, I was just about ready for a mid-feast nap. Mike and I just sat there for a while, feeling full and/or pregnant with food babies, staring at our swollen stomachs, until the entire family got together for the annual photo meticulously staged and taken by Mike's father, Gene.
Then there was dessert. Oh yes the Spriggs like their dessert. I saw the cake on the table and silently thanked Mike and Cassidy for making me ride as much as I did last week. Then I grabbed a fork and ate a big chunk of that thing. I mean, it said "Mike/Rapha" and "Kaiko, JD." WHY ARE AMERICANS SO CUTE AND NICE???
So after that, I went into a diabetic coma and had to be carried to the car and rolled home. But not before we flipped through the Winning magazines that Mike's uncle, Andy, brought for him [he had saved all but the first three issues]. We laughed at the awesomely 80s ads, and kept pointing things out to each other. It's a treasure trove of design ideas and just good cycling stuff in general. At least half of the issues featured some kind of pro female cyclist, too, which was definitely cool and appreciated.
Before I got into the car, I think I said something about how I have to ride and all that but that coma lasted well into Monday. But that's okay, there's always tonight, and tomorrow, rollers in my room, and from what the Internet tells me, Thursday Trick Nights at Superb...! So that whole fitness thing might win out over the whole flabbiness thing. Might.
My entire extended family is cursed with the whole "unable to see clearly" thing. Literally. Family dinners will easily result in every single person wearing a pair of glasses. Once that fact sinks in, it's up to the ones who can sort of see to take one for the team and self-consciously take off their specs. Then we all pretend that we're not all blind.
It's a little embarrassing for all involved when caught in those situations. But Tuesday night, I was with a group of pretty cool people and we were all wearing glasses. And it was awesome.
To be honest, I'm still not sure what Jeremy Dunn and Slate were doing in town, but they were in Boston and suggested meeting up at Superb. Not one to say no to anything bike-related, I jumped on the track bike and made my way to my favorite Boston shop. It's been too long since I've actually just hung out; I was like hey, how do I do this again...?
But of course, not to worry, as the company took any self-imposed obligation to entertain off my shoulders. We hung out in Superb until closing, "covered" for Jason when he had to make some repairs by standing around and chatting, took pictures of each other, and shared tidbits of our respective lives.
I'd like to say that our collective awesome resulted in some mind-blowing stuff. Like we started making fashionable bikes out of our bare hands or something. But like the Clark Kent/Superman dichotomy, the superhero can only come out every so often, and we have events to save that up for. So we Clark Kent-ed by opting for chill beers, Kobe beef hotdogs [for the omnis], and fun times at Aubudon. There was iPhone-age and mucho twittering involved. And with a cell phone that can only 1. make phone calls, 2. take grainy pictures, and 3. text, I had some serious phone envy. And then PVB showed up, raising the IQ level of the table by about 100.
It was getting late too fast and with a 8.30am class for which I hadn't quite done the work, we went our separate ways after a few beers [for the guys; fear of riding my track bike drunk had me sticking to Diet Coke...I AM SUCH A VEGAN TEETOTALER, I KNOW]. It was getting cold, and without a hat, my ears were freezing. The sensation seemed almost surreal.
Talking bikes - even though it was only for 2 hours - makes it seem like spring is just around the corner...
It's Friday night, and there's a hand sneaking in between my legs. Fingers brush my inner thigh as I squeal and giggle.
I wasn't tipsy at all. Just a little drunk off adrenaline from the Superb Grand Opening party.
I had cleared my schedule weeks in advance for this party [and not only because cassette was a sponsor]. With a Fuji Feather being given away, who wouldn't? But there was also the promise of "fraternaliz[ing] with Boston's cycling elite." And knowing Superb was going to fully deliver on that promise, it's a party I wasn't going to miss.
Arriving close to an hour after the doors opened, the place was already packed. Bikes lined both sides of the new shop, and people had spilled out onto the sidewalk. Squeezing our bikes into a narrow open space and locking them up, M1 and I ran into none other than Mr. Igleheart, the awesomely friendly framebuilder behind those delicious bikes that "ride like butter" [I wasn't kidding when I told him that I was saving up for one of his frames]. And as I turned around, ready to elbow my way into the shop, I waved hello to Marty of Geekhouse. This was going to be a really good party.
Inside, people swirled around the central display of bikes underneath the chandelier. There was a wave and thumbs up exchange between myself and Tyler of IF, an introduction to James of Revolution Bicycle Repair [he and M1 worked downtown together back in the day], and quick hellos to Croth and Kip. Lucas Brunelle was sighted, as was Joe of Sugar Coat and Geekhouse, and of course, all the hot Asian girls of Cambridge Bikes. Jason, the mastermind behind Superb, clearly delivered on his promise, and more.
Good beats streamed from the speakers as people moved around the room. Stepping outside to check on our bikes and cool off, another Boston cycling persona, Natasha of Pedal Power Photography, rolled up. In great company, we checked out the array of bicycles entered into the "Hot Bike Contest." The contestants varied from a slick Specialized to a swoon-worthy vintage Pinarello pursuit frame with a tri-color, glittery paint job. While I regretted not riding the Dolan in, even with its new fall/winter 2009 look [coming soon!], a part of me knew that it probably wouldn't have stood a chance with this kind of competition.
But I did take part in another kind of contest: $3 got Team Cassette 5 tickets into the raffle. With fingers crossed that we'd win
something a Fuji Feather, we checked out the rest of the prizes and ate up some of Jason's time before we reluctantly headed out the door for a friend's birthday party. It was early, the party was still in full swing, but I didn't feel lame leaving. Superb tends to have that effect; there's no insecure pre-judgment of those who walk in the door, but you better be prepared to walk out feeling not only cooler but also like you've just managed to infiltrate Boston's decidedly unpretentious cycling elite.
Which would explain the big smile on my face as I rolled away from 842 Beacon Street, despite my early departure. Thighs even pumped harder as we sped around taxis in Friday night traffic, spinning wheels and pedals to the next scheduled event of the night. And on the way, that hand. My palms seared with cold nervous sweat in response.
"Got it," M1 said as he drew up next to me.
I relaxed as we surged up a hill - no longer needing to hold a motionless line - mashing en danseuse on the pedals, secure in the knowledge that the Knog Beetle on my seatpost was now diligently blinking red.
[More pictures of the event here.]
Sharing is caring, I know. But sometimes, I'm tempted to keep certain things to myself. Like those gems of whatever that you discover, and then hide away, at least for a little while, while you weigh who you'll let in on your little secret, and in what order.
The irony being that I don't really consider myself good at keeping secrets. Especially when they're good secrets.
Like the addicting soul of Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Loves that's been streaming out of my speakers for the past few days [not clicking on those links is your loss, so I'm not even going to demand you check them out]. Sure they've been around for a while...but with music like this coming from homey little Boston, and the NACCCs starting today, I feel just a little bit obligated to share this little gem.
And there's something else, too. And it's called Superb.
Conceived by Jason, it's the stunningly hip extension of Cambridge Bicycle's track bike boutique. The website went live earlier this summer, but it's the space that I want to talk about. The plans for it are unbelievable, and I've had the good fortune of peeking into the space [formerly that of Boston Bicycle] every few weeks and watching the whirlwind transformation. Gold and teal ceilings, custom damask, plans for a display that will blow your mind, and chandeliers.
I'll let you in on another secret, too. Jason was one of the first to know about cassette before her official launch, and when I dragged M1 to the space a few weeks back, it ended in a few iced americanos...and an idea.
A collaboration t-shirt between Superb and cassette, the idea was sketched out within 24 hours of that meeting, delivered to M1 and the concept finalized between 2 to 3am on a Sunday night and the hour before I boarded a bus back to Boston on Monday morning. The shirts were printed, cured, and mailed within 48 hours [did I mention we work fast?]. And just in time, too. Because with couriers from all across North America flooding the city, Superb is a destination spot, and then some.
Which is probably why I can't keep the fact that it's amazing and going to be totally awesome a secret. All exacerbated by the fact that late Tuesday night, M1 sent me an iphone shot of a test Superb shirt. I nearly screamed in excitement before reaching for the phone, the only words I could form being "dude...dude...that shirt...oh my god..."
"Yeah," he replied, "I want to sort of steal one."
And there you have it. Proof that it's a good one. And therefore a secret I am incapable of keeping. Want one? Stop by Superb...and make sure you say hi, too!
[And yes, it's Rapha Scarf Friday again...]
I'm really good at making faces.
You might not think it if you just met me. Or maybe you would. In any case, my Mom hates it. Which makes me just do it more, until, finally unable to hold in her laughter, she'll watch me contort my face with a mixture of disgust and amazement and say:
"You keep doing that and your face is permanently going to stay that way."
She might be right. At least about crinkling my nose too much.
But I have friends who are looking out for me, clearly. Because while I never tend to wear my own cycling caps, I'm building up an interesting collection via friends. And they're shielding my face and eyes from sun, wind, and crows feet. And for someone who habitually forgets to slather on the sunscreen, that's love.
So when yesterday turned out to be one of the sunniest in weeks [Jason apparently schemed with the weather for months to make that happen - thanks!], I was grateful that I was wearing one. Well, I've been wearing this one for a few days now, and for good reason.
It's the new Superb cycling cap.
Designed by both Jason and Croth, this hat is all about the details. The wallpaper background, when viewed from a few feet back, looks like innocent damask. But when you get close enough [to check out the person wearing it], you notice the bicycles and the subtle curves and flicks in the logo.
And then you get a little bit closer [because, please, anyone wearing this is guaranteed to be hot], and you see the underside of the brim. Teal or purple, it's a hidden sort of hip; the kind you don't need to flaunt for people to know you have it. But if you're the one doing the attracting, well, it wouldn't hurt to turn it up a notch and flip up that brim.
But no analysis of a potential mate is ever complete without a view from the back. And that's when this hat really works to your advantage. With "Boston" emblazoned on the back, you'll know where to find this hottie [or at least where to hang out to find such hotties]. And if you're the one wearing it, even better. You can still give the sexy look over your shoulder and saunter away into the crowd; because, come on, anyone with decent game can take a hint and at least try to break the ice with banter about the Bosox.
Lucky for you, this hat dropped yesterday. Check it - and the rest of Superb - out.


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Gotstyle Distillery played host to the incredible Xiao Nan Yu, a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada as she settled in for her one-on-one interview with Lush magazine. We had her in everything from Malene Birger dressed to blazers and suits by Ted Baker and Tiger Of Sweden...hard to imagine that Ms. Yu is a mother of two.
Pick up the latest issue of Lush Magazine for the full editorial and interview with Ms. Yu.


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The Conflict Between Knowing and Doing
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg.."
The Conflict Between Knowing and Doing
By Richard L. Daft
Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives have control over thousands of people, and endless resources, but often do not have mastery over themselves.
From a distance, larger-than-life leaders may look firmly in control of their businesses and their personal behavior. What about up close? Personal mastery is a difficult thing. For example, can you think of any politicians in recent years whose personal behavior was revealed as opposite to their espoused values?
Or consider Fortune Magazine's article a few years ago about why CEO's fail. The records of thirty-eight ineffective CEO's revealed that all were good at cognitive stuff – vision, strategy, ideas and the like. Things broke down during execution. The CEO's behavior did not follow through on their thoughts and words. Action did not follow intention.
Things as simple as sitting too long on decisions, not confronting underperforming subordinates, or not delivering on commitments ended up harming the company. The CEO's had plausible excuses, but it seemed clear that their actual behavior did not reflect their stated intentions. They seemed to know what to do but were not doing it.
Have you ever had a clear intention and then failed to follow through?
From: Daft, R. L., (2010). The executive and the elephant: a leader's guide for building inner excellence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (p. 5)
Reprinted with permission from the OSU Leadership Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, (614) 292-3114, http://leadershipcenter.osu.edu/
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For you and your company to be at peak performance, your intentions and actions must be aligned. What do you do to ensure that you are walking your talk? Share with us in the comments area below.


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Comedy Cave
Fully built and redesigned in 2010, the site uses an older version of Joomla 1.5. The template was designed with Artisteer. The customer later changed the logo in the header but the template still is original to work with the existing plugins for Joomla 1.5.
The home page is updated weekly to show a preview of new comedians which the owner can update easily themselves. In addition, the calender feature shows up coming acts for as long as the client wants once a comedian is booked. Social plugins are also installed as well as an ecommerce solution (Virtemart) for gift certificates and t-shirts etc is also available. The main feature is the reservations form that the customers can fill out to reserve a spot for an upcoming show.


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Happy Friday, everyone! I honestly feel like this week has flown by! Every single second has been filled with work, but I continuously keep getting distracted by a movie on TV. First, it was Twilight. Then Eat Pray Love sucked me in. And I kind of want to watch a thousand more movies now that it finally snowed in Colorado. But in the meantime, I need to find an outfit for a wedding this weekend that doesn't include a short dress. Wish me luck!
Today I have 18 outfits for you! I have no idea how that's possible because I feel like I JUST did a round-up not long ago! But I've been sporting a lot of workout apparel lately since I've been so busy so I have lots of those kinds of items. Anywho, let's get started with one of my favorite sweaters lately. I love how this sweater still gives you some shape and it's soft & not itchy! It also comes in ivory and black! And right now, you can get buy 1 – get 1 50% off when it comes to sweaters at Express!
{ Sweater (My Size: Small) | Jeans (My Size – 2) | Booties (sesame suede) | Purse | Earrings }
I wore this simple outfit a couple weeks ago when I went out with my best friend to grab ramen. We were underwhelmed by the ramen (which reminds me…it's snowing out, I need to get my favorite ramen tonight) but I was quite happy with my outfit because my feet were SO comfortable. These booties are the most comfortable booties I own now. They are like walking in soft little pillows. I'm obsessed with them! I even talk about them in a video here!
{ Similar Jeans | Tee (2 for $28 – My Size: Small) | Jacket (US 4) | Choker | Peep Toe Booties }
A little cold shoulder sweater action going on! This sweater also comes in a orange color and looks super cute completely tucked into your jeans or whatever else you are wearing!
{ Sweater (My Size: Small) | Jeans (My Size: 2) | Boots | Earrings }
This sweater and scarf combo made me feel like Christmas…which is creeping up very quickly! I honestly think I may wear this Christmas day because it's pretty much like wearing comfy pajamas all day!
{ Sweater (My Size: S/M) | Scarf | Jeans (My Size: 2) | Boots }
If I knew how to put emojis into my blog posts, I would totally add in 20 red hearts because I totally heart this top! The lace up trend has continued into the winter months and I'm fully embracing it. And don't worry, I linked the perfect bra for this top below!
{ Top (My Size: Small) | Bra | Vest (My Size – S) | Similar Jeans | Booties | Choker | Sunglasses }
When I added this photo to my instagram, a woman told me she didn't understand this sweater trend. But that's what's so cool about fashion: you don't have to understand it. If a person feels good in it and they are rocking that look – good for them. I love this long sweater because it's completely different from any of the other sweaters that I own. It's a completely different look and I loved it! I paired it with my new favorite coat that I shared on the blog on Tuesday! So remember – someone may not like you're look, but if you feel good in it – you do you, girrrrrl!
{ Top (My Size: Small) | Coat (My Size: US4) | Jeans (My Size: 0) | Booties }
This choker top is such a fun, lightweight top for winter! And it comes in 5 different colors! It's seriously SO SOFT and I love it SO much! No but seriously, it's the best.
{ Top (My Size: Small) | Jeans (My Size: 0) | Jacket (My Size: US4) | Beanie | Booties }
Anyone spot a little doggy in this pic?! Those ears! Swoon! As I said above, I've been living in workout clothes lately. Greasy hair, don't care kind of life. But luckily, I've had these new cut out leggings that I want to wear every day! They are high waisted and they don't move one bit when you workout! I'm so in love with them! Just FYI, they definitely run big so size way down!
{ Leggings (My Size: XS) | Sports Bra (My Size: 6) | Tank Top (My Size: 4) | Pullover (My Size: 4) | Sneakers (on sale) }
This dress is such a perfect holiday dress! And it comes in 4 different colors and is super stretchy so you feel comfortable in it all night long! And it would be perfect with a pair of tights, in case it's getting cold wherever you live!
{ Dress (My Size: Small) | Similar Boots | Similar Purse | Earrings }
This top again! I told you I loved it! It's seriously so soft, you could wear it while just lounging around the house! And it comes in 6 different colors!
{ Top (My Size: Small) | Bra | Jeans (My Size: 26) | Pumps }
I recently did a little photoshoot with my friend Ashely and it was so fun to get some shots done with her! She finds the most beautiful colors! Since it was still warm when we were taking photos, I threw on my favorite skirt (that came back in stock this season!) with my cold shoulder sweater. I cannot say enough about this skirt. I've worn it SO MANY times!
{ Sweater (My Size: Small) | Skirt (My Size: 0) | Pumps | Necklace No Longer Available }
A little casual outfit of the day in all black and plaid. Can't go wrong with that!
{ Top (My Size: Small) | Jeans (My Size: 00) | Sneakers }
I recently took a little trip to the mountains with my sister in law and wore the most comfortable long sleeve top ever! If you've been looking for a warm, soft top for winter, look no further. This v-neck top comes in 4 different colors and is worth every penny!
{ Jeans (My Size: 0) | Top (My Size: XS) | Boots | Scarf (more below) }
More plaid! I got this plaid top at the Stitch Fix Tastemakers Event I went to recently and it's become a staple because it's so lightweight and flowy!
{ Jeans (My Size: 0) | Top (My Size: Small) | Booties (more below) | Choker )
Stop what you're doing and get this pullover! It comes in 5 different colors and it is the perfect little sweatshirt for winter whether you're wearing workout clothes or a pair of jeans! I'm thinking about getting it in coral, as well! I love it that much!
{ Pullover (My Size: XS) | Leggings (My Size: XS) | Sneakers (on sale) }
This sleeveless sweater dress has me feeling festive and ready to dance in it! The pattern and texture of this dress and cinched waistline make it super flattering! And the flounce bottom makes it pretty much the best thing ever!
{ Dress (My Size: S) | Pumps | Jacket (My Size: US 4) }
I wore this outfit on the way to the airport and I was comfortable the entire way! No sore feet after wandering DIA in need of breakfast! And if you've been looking for an amazing carry-on, I found the best one recently, that also comes in brown! It's so nice to not have to worry if the bag will fit overhead now. It just slides into place with no fuss! I also bought the larger suitcase version (for checking my luggage) in brown so I'm ready for any trip!
{ Jeans (My Size: 00) | Sweater (My Size: Small) | Scarf | Booties | Purse | Sunglasses | Carry-on }
Last but not least, I workout outfit, of course! Wearing the most comfortable assymetical zipper vest with these zipper pocket leggings that also come in a gray color! And since I'm rocking the greasy hair all week, I did my go-to top knot, which I recently did a video tutorial for!
{ Top (My Size: 4) | Leggings (My Size: XS) | Vest (My Size: XS) | Sneakers }
Hope you guys loved some of the outfits and I truly hope it gave you some inspiration with your own wardrobe! Just a reminder – I may be compensated through my affiliate links in this post, but all opinions are my own.
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